Twins lose nasty, sloppy game to Tigers; any pitchers left?
[picappgallerysingle id="9416502"]Last night’s loss to the Detroit Tigers was the nastiest, sloppiest, longest Minnesota Twins game I’ve seen in a long time. And it went on forever. And we have no pitchers left. We used all the healthy ones, relievers and starters, last night. The Twins will have to call somebody up to pitch tonight. Boo.
I heard last night’s ballgame described as “bizarre” and “wild.” I would use these words: Sloppy. Messy. Lazy. The Twins gave up every lead they had to the Tigers. It was horrifying. And it went on and on until the Twins ultimately lost. Ugh.
Here’s how ESPN described it, “Six lead changes, five ties, four errors, two blown saves, 25 runners left on base and at least four botched double plays.” That sounds about right to me. Yuck.
You could also add in “four home runs – none of them from the Twins.”
The funniest thing about it? Ron Gardenhire wasn’t even in the dugout – he was ejected by the second base umpire halfway through the game (that was in the seventh inning).
And I was pissed, too, by the way – Alexi Casilla may have dropped the ball, but not before he secured the out at second. You can’t negate the out just because he dropped the ball so he couldn’t throw to first for the double play! Casilla still caught the ball in the first place.
Anyway, Twins starting pitcher Scott Baker left the game with a sore elbow, taking a second cortisone shot in nearly as many months to help it (great). Little did he know that he left eleven full innings for the relief pitchers.
Twins reliever Jeff Manship had a terrific game, pitching long for four innings and holding the Tigers to one run. But Brian Fuentes (bad back) and Matt Capps (some kind of soreness) were unavailable.
So, the Twins had to put in two starters: Brian Duensing, who threw over 100 pitches two days earlier, and Nick Blackburn, who was supposed to start tonight. Needless to say Blackburn’s not starting now.
Right now, we don’t know who will start for the Twins tonight. Probably somebody from Triple A. They can’t even call up Glen Perkins because he just pitched. We have nobody. Yikes.
And the Twins were utterly sloppy on the field last night. They were up 7-3 going into the eighth inning, and that should have been it. Instead, it was the halfway point of the game as the Twins and Tigers played thirteen innings of baseball over nearly five hours.
That is too many innings. It’s just too many. And it’s too many hours, too.
The one good thing about the game: white-hot Danny Valencia went 3 for 3 with two RBI. The guy is killing it out there.
Too bad every other Twins player is a disaster right now. I guess that’s why we lost.
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