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.
d'oh!
That could only have been better if Betemit's "throw" had tagged Phil Coke on its way to the middle of nowhere.
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?
more like The Dugout's lexicon
Yes, but so is JI
JIM THOME and "THIS STORY ONLY ENDS ONE WAY!" and we use those.
that's because THIS STORY ONLY ENDS ONE WAY
We also have two images to describe Delmon's failures.
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).
Done. There's no format to follow yet, so just add a bunch of images. We can organize it later.
Is it true that Brandon Inge was DFA'd? Wow, he fell off the map fast didn't he.
He isn't owed as much as Adam Dunn.