MNTwins Blog

Let’s just get the team off the road and get back home to the dome.

This road trip just flat out sucked.

After about the 6th inning of the Twins/Blue Jays final game today, it looked like the Twins confidence was just shot. These guys need to get back home in from of the home crowd of the dome and try to play some good baseball against the Tigers.

Losing 0-9 to the Blue Jays in the final game of the road trip? Well, that was just pretty much the worst way to end the road trip. It’s gonna be a long trip home.

At least the White Sox have been playing just about as bad and it’s actually still a tight race between the two teams. If either the Twins or the White Sox had gone on a year over the last few games there could easily be a gap of a few games between the two.

Let’s get home, play the Tigers hard. Get some confidence back in this team. Hopefully the September call-ups that have been added to the bullpen can provide a little rest for some of the heavily worn pitchers as of late. Guys like Humber and Korecky could provide some valuable releif time to give the bullpen a little rest and a boost.

Hopefully Humber doesn’t let this first Twins appearance get to him and can keep his stuff together and help out the Twins. The same goes for the rest of the new guys (including Everyday Eddie!, who is starting to remind me more of Terry Mullholland than the Eddie I remember of they early part of the decade.

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.