Twins record: 59-87
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Hey, the Rays won again and swept the Red Sox today. That puts them...three and a half games back with seventeen to play. Wild card race fever: catch it!!!!1
Hitter of the Week: Mrs. Dinkelman
Pitcher of the Week: Mrs. Parmelee
Twins record: 58-81
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I give Kevin Slowey a solid 7-star rating for today's game. However, I give the offense (non-Mauer division) an absolutely-serious, whopping 1-star rating. No, I did not listen dispassionately before I rated.
Hitter of the Week: Trevor Plouffe
Pitcher of the Week: Kevin Slowey
Twins record: 56-77
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Oh hey, the Twins won a game.
Hitter of the Week: Luke Hughes
Pitcher of the Week: Matt Capps
Twins record: 55-71
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Hitter of the Week: Jim Thome
Pitcher of the Week: Anthony Swarzak
Uh, if anybody wants a game log, here you go.
Twins record: 51-63
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Hitter of the Week: Jason Kubel
Pitcher of the Week: Carl Pavano
Twins record: 50-58
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Hitter of the Week: Jim Thome
Pitcher of the Week: Brian Duensing
Twins record: 47-54
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Hitter of the Week: Alexi Casilla
Pitcher of the Week: Nick Blackburn
Twins record: 44-49
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Truth be told, I spent most of this game busy drawing hearts around the name "Alex Morgan" which I had written in my notebook...but it looked pretty good on Gameday, especially the part that said "J. Thome homered to deep center, B. Revere and J. Mauer scored". So, three out of four from the Royals to kick off The Most Important Homestand Ever? So far, so good.
Hitter of the Week: I kind of want to pick Jim Thome for this every time he gets closer to 600 from now on.
Pitcher of the Week: I think I'll go with Joe Nathan here, I'm feeling nostalgic.
Twins record: 41-48
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This week I am faced with the prospect of pushing back not just one, but two excellent food-and-drink posts, both of which concern material that I find myself much more interested in than baseball at this point of this season, frankly. So I will once again try to get out of the way and tell you to go read those posts just below here instead. As for today, I'll just say that even I can't complain about taking three of four from Chicago in Chicago.
Hitter of the Week: I'm going to pick the Iceman, just because, since I make my offensive stat charts in sets of eight games and today's game was the start of a new set, I'm going to get a kick out of Iceman's three times reached out of four PAs today keeping him on the top of the chart for a whole week after this, as he won't appear again on this set unless someone else gets hurt.
Pitcher of the Week: I think I liked Brian Duensing and his two very nice starts this week the most.