We all saw it coming didn't we? Twins playing above their heads and the Clevelanders scuffling. Regression to the mean was inevitable, especially given the pitching staff the Twins had planned.
But nothing fixes what ails you than a 3 game stint against the lowly White Sox. Let's hope the Twins keep Hawk quiet for innings at a time as Santana gets back on track. Beautiful night for a 7:10p game.
Sanoooooo!!!100100101!101
One spot away from Twingo after Escobar double.
Finally got it in Mauer RBI single. By this point, all prizes collected.
I spookied the hell out of that one.
Ruled a base hit. Heh.
Wieters with speeders
Har. Doing the small things.
WGOM Anagram Fun:
Avisail Garcia == Garlic Via Asia
Pussy Riot!
Vargas Boom Boom Boom!!!
483 ft, amongst the longest HRs this season.
Bat Flip!
475?!
483 per the DazzleMan.
EVERYBODY hits
It's not too often a pitcher gives up 4 runs in an inning and then returns to the mound next inning with a bigger lead than he started the previous inning.
Santana finishes with 6 Ks in 5 IP. He's had only 2 starts with more Ks (8 is a season high) and this is only the second time this season he's had more Ks than IP. Of course, he faced a ton of batters tonight because of all the base runners.
Dick suggests that the Twins are considering sending Buxton to minors just before he hits an RBI single.
I hope Dick was talking through his hat. That would be a very upsetting thing for the Twins to do.
Lover the get-back runs tonight. Hopefully, there won't be anymore opportunities tonight, but I'm not counting on it.
Jersey/shirsey count:
Sano 10
Mauer 24
Buxton 3
O-Dog (!)
Dozier 4
Hunter 2
Killebrew 4
Carew 4
Punto
Rosario
Morneau 3
JI JIM
Kepler 2
Abreu
Span
Johan
Ervin
Perkins
Cuddyer
Molitor
Gladden
Was there tonight. Wanted to mention seeing one Jordan Sox jersey.
Someone give the revolving door a shot of WD-40
Swervesnack!
Smokestack sighting!
Swarzak's in. Odds are pretty good Dick Bremer vocally subtweets Kevin Slowey.
oh man, its only the top of the 7th
Im tapping out for the night
heh. dazzle declines to share any joe west stories "on the radio".
So hit it to Garcia seems to be working pretty good for The Twins. Sank could've scored on that "throw,"
I'll take credit for that run. I just put Kahnle on my fantasy team.
That was easy! Twins had it the whole way. Just 1.5 games back now.
Trivia question for the night: Who on the Twins (among position players) is second to Sano in OPS.
He's the only other player currently with an OPS greater than .800.