MNTwins Blog

How about that. Punto bobbles the ball one play. The next play the Twins let a runner score while handing out a slick double play. Trade ya 2 outs for a run? Sure.

Game tied. Lead gone. Game will continue.

Just another Twins/Mariners game.

I wonder if there was any chance at all to nail Beltre at the plate? Probably not.

Either way. Nathan knocks out the next hitter and we’re off to small-ball our way into a 1 run lead for the 10th inning. That’s the way it goes.

I probably wouldn’t bet money on anything I just rambled about here.

Haha, not sure why I laughed at that comment about Sean Green, relief pitcher for the Mariners

Imagine that? With the track record these two teams have playing against each other this year, it’s amazing to see that it’s only 1-1 going into the 6th inning.

In the 6 games this year so far:

Twins Lose   6-11
Twins Lose   7-8
Twins Win   7-3
Twins Win   9-3
Twins Win   7-6
Twins Win  11-8

Not a lot of low scoring ball games there. Who woulda thought Liriano get’s into a late season pitchers duel with Miguel Batista?

So I guess the Twins have gone out and got Eddie Guardado. “Everyday Eddie” is what I remember him being called during his last stint with the Twins. Great to have him back, he should shore up a struggline bullpen quite nicely.

This season Eddie has had a 3.65 ERA in 55 appearances with the Rangers. Not too shabby. I’ll take that from a lefty in our bullpen.

The Twins sent to the Rangers Mark Hamburger.

It’ll be interesting to see if that guy ever turns into something. Everything in Minnesota is clouded by the shroud of Everyday Eddie. At the moment. Yeah.

As I had mentioned earlier, today was a fun day to watch both the Twins and the White Sox. I was hoping for a better outcome, but what can you go?

The Rays failed to sweep the White Sox and the Twins gave up the lead late in the game for a disappointing loss.

Nuts.

The Twins bullpen puts me on the edge of my seat in every single game (unless the starter goes the distance of course). I’m getting used to getting all kinds of “bonus suspense” during the late innings of Twins games.

I guess we got to see how explosive the Angel’s offense can be at times though, huh?

The Twins and White Sox have always a nice rivalry to a certain extent. Today is a rare day where the rivalry is playing out on TV in two different ballgames (at least in my geographic area).

The Rays are playing the White Sox on one channel and the Twins are playing the Angels on another channel.

So far, the Rays/Sox game is tied. I’m hoping that the Rays can pull out and win, and a sweep, over the Chicago White Sox. Then, to top that off nicely, the Twins could hopefully beat the Angels. Tough chances for that happening as all these teams are pretty good, but we’ll see how it plays out within approximately 1.5 hrs.

The Rays are looking pretty good. I haven’t had much chance to see them play on TV, they fun to watch. They remind me of the Twins style of play.

Pena sliding into first base head first looked like something the Twins do all too often. Plus a lot of defensive flounders by the White Sox is also a familiar sight.

I am very happy that the Twins picked out two games against the Angel’s immediately in the series. What a great way to start out this road trip that is supposed to be all crazy and hard (I don’t beleive it too much).

So.. they win the first two.. great, the Twins have got a split guaranteed!

Excellent.

Now, they drop tonights game. A game that was winnable by all standards, just didn’t pull it off. But I don’t feel too bad about it cause we already got our split! But it does also kinda suck that they lost, I mean a win is a win. I’m confused.

The Minnesota Twins always need another blog, right? Well, here’s one that is starting up about one month from the end of the 2008 season. Yeah!