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2013 Twins Game Recaps

Game 26 Recap: Last Chance at .500

Correia fell to earth today. Let us take a moment to commemorate this moment. Gleeman be praised - he tried to warn us.

This feels like the last game we'll see this year where the Twins could've hit .500. Hey, about 10% of the comments in the game thread were about that idea - sounds about right.

Also, I've got to take a moment and mention Aaron Hicks' first MLB home run. I just happened to come into the room at the perfect moment, so it was one of the very few things I saw from the game.

Oh well, they'll get 'em next time (but, as mentioned, probably not the time after that).

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Game 22 Recap: Prince Fielder 3, Twins 3, Pelfrey -1

Winning Streak: -1
Number of Days since Joe Mauer's 30th Birthday: 11
Number of times a Prince Fielder Home Run has ruined the day: significant, but unknown

After this game I couldn't shake the feeling that I've seen this before. Oh yeah, I have seen this before. His very first major league home run. I was there. That night I learned there is nothing worse than a cocky, drunk Milwaukee Brewers' fan.

At least that homer wasn't this.

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Game 21: Twins 5, Rangers 0

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Twins earn a split of the series with Texas and are now 11-10 on the year. Kevin Correia pitched 8 scoreless innings, scattering 6 hits and picking up 2 strikeouts. He leads all Twins pitchers in Wins (3) and starters in ERA (2.23)  and WHIP (1.07). Morneau hit his 2nd HR of the year, a 2-run shot, and is just behind Willingham in RBI at 11.

The Twins head to Detroit where I assume they'd be happy to replicate the success of their previous trip to Motown.

In other news, the Wild slid bass-ackwards into the playoffs for the first time in 5 years by way of a tiebreaker with Columbus. After an ugly game against Edmonton on Friday night, they beat the Avs in requlation on Saturday to secure the 8th (and final) spot in the Western Conference, finishing the regular season with 55 points at 26-19-3. They now head to Chicago for a best of 5 series. Game 1 is tomorrow (Tues, Apr 30) - puck drops at 7pm.

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Game 18 Recap: From the Livejournal of Cole DeVries

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April 26, 2013

Mood: 😀 Determined

Music: Drake - Started From the Bottom

Well, here I am in Sunny Florida ready to start my rehab assignment and get back on track to rejoining the team in the Majors!

It’s so nice to be down here where it’s warm and nice out instead of in gloomy snowy Minnesota. I think the long Winter really started to get to me in weird ways and I did some things that I kind of regret. It was a really dark time, maybe even darker than the last dark time, but it's good to be feeling happy again. When Mr. Ryan called to tell me that I was ready to start playing baseball again I was so excited, but it was tough to break the news to Cassandra that I was returning to baseball. She got real angry and called me a sellout and a drone and that she always knew I was a yuppie loser. She also said some other stuff that I don't want to talk about.

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From the Livejournal of Cole DeVries: Darkness

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Mood: 😐 grim

Music: Bauhaus – She’s In Parties

The world is a ruined abyss of endless torment.
Mayhem and madness are all that is left.
Monsters are everywhere.
Craven beasts pick their way through the wrack and ruin.
Searching in vain for remnants of their own lost souls.
I am a ghost.
I am nothing.

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The Joe Mauers 8, The No Mauers 2

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Winning Streak: 1

Winning Pitcher: Correia (1-1)
Losing Pitcher: Blanton (0-3)

Joe Mauer either really likes honoring civil rights hero Jackie Robinson, or really hates him and wishes for the day to be called Joe Mauer Day with everyone wearing number 3s and fake sideburns. Either way, Mauer destroyed Angels' pitching and put in a good shift defensively as the Twins' bats came alive.

Correia also struck out 5(!) upping the starters' strikeout total by 25 percent. He was able to overcome a leadoff homer by Bourjos and another by [redacted] to pitch seven innings of 2 run baseball.

All in all, a satisfying victory for the home nine.

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Game 11 Recap: The Rest of the Story

The Mets are sending out Matt Harvey, who looks something like the exact opposite of the type of pitcher the Twins batters want to be facing right now
-- nibbish, 2:38pm 4/14/2013 - Shortly before Matt Harvey proved himself to be an extremely good pitcher.

Matt Harvey is good, and Scott Diamond could use a few innings under his belt. At least Morneau crushed a home run, so I have a happy wife.

Also, I found it humorous that Chrissy Chrissy Parm Parm switched up his walkup music two days after he got a D- for "Thrift Shop". I do have to disagree with the article, though. No way Plouffe's is a mere C+. The snippet of "When The Levee Breaks" he has is all about that foreboding drum beat. Imagine you're the opposing pitcher, and you've just loaded the bases, and you hear those drums (well, after that, you have to face a batter whose most consistent way on base is through getting hit, but for at least a couple seconds you're freaking out).

According to RhuRu, we're going to win the next ten though (that is what you meant by the LWW theory, right?), so it's all gravy.