2011 Twins Game Recaps

Game 98 Recap: Tigers 6, Twins 2

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DETROIT 6, MINNESOTA 2
Record - 46-52 (4th in Central, 1.0 game out of 3rd, 6.0 games out of first)
Highest WPA - Cuddyer and Mauer (both 2 for 4) were the only positive WPA Twins
Lowest WPA - Jim Thome (0 for 3, BB, 3 SO) - Only one true outcome short of the complete set.
NOTES - Twins are 0-6 against Detroit this year.
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Not exactly the start to the series that the Twins were looking for.  Verlander was pretty good, and he dialed it up a bit after Cuddyer's leadoff triple in the second inning.  Strikeouts of Thome and Valencia along with a Delmon groundout to second (BOOM BITCH!) got him off the hook and kept the game scoreless.

Then it was a matter of Pavano trying to keep it close.  After a frightening 4th inning (bases loaded, one out) was defused by a double play, it seemed like a one-run deficit could be overcome.  Then a 2-run Brennan Boesch homer in the 5th extended the Tiger lead.  3 runs against Verlander seemed a tall order, but the Tiger bullpen has been pretty bad and my friend who is a Tiger fan wouldn't admit victory.

The sixth inning saw the Twins score on a string of 2 out hits, but the top of the inning had already yielded two more Tiger runs, so the deficit was only narrowed to four.

Beating Verlander is always a tall order, and it was one the Twins weren't up to last night.  Fortunately, there are three more games in the series, and no more Verlanders in the Tigers' rotation.

11 thoughts on “Game 98 Recap: Tigers 6, Twins 2”

    1. That could only have been better if Betemit's "throw" had tagged Phil Coke on its way to the middle of nowhere.

  2. BOOM BITCH!

    Fantastic. I look forward to this entering the lexicon. But how bad is it we would then have two seperate things to describe _elm_n failing?

      1. speaking of, could you throw up the miscellaneous page? i've got a couple i wanted to add up there (and didn't want to mess around with doing it myself, lest i wipe the whole .org).

  3. Is it true that Brandon Inge was DFA'd? Wow, he fell off the map fast didn't he.

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