This past week I have been spending my days inside avoiding the insane heat mother nature so kindly brought us this week and coaching from the couch, lets just say I'm the perfect air-conditioned temperature and my voice is horse from yelling so much. The rivalry series against the Milwaukee Brewers started out well with a strong 7-3 win for the Twins. After beating the Brewers in the teams last four meetings, this Twins fans thought that our boys had it locked up, that the Twins were finally going to have some success on the road...
And then last night hit, while the Twins started strong with a 3-2 lead and no glaring errors after the top of the 8th. In the bottom of the 8th with a pitching error and poor judgement from Nick Blackburn the Twins lost their lead and the Brewers eventually winning 4-3. What makes the evening even more upsetting is that for the first time since June 1998 a Twins pitcher to throw back-to-back complete games, something that should have been means for celebration.
While there are constant changes being made in the outfield with Denard Span be reactivated on the roster and Jason Pridie being sent to Rochester to make room, it seems to me that the Twins need to be focusing on finding a pitcher that can keep it together through an entire game. With a game this afternoon time will tell if the Twins can come back from last night's blunders to finish the series on top.
2 comments:
AH! It was such a sad game on Wednesday night :( I watched from McGovern's with Cathy and was not happy. Can't say the same for my game buddy - she's from Wisco.
I agree the pitching has been terrible. There is no way they will make it far in the playoffs with the way the pitching staff has been performing - it is so frustrating.
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