Oh well.

The “Positives”

Watching the after-game shows, it was apparent that all Twins broadcast crew had become bitten by the nasty little critter referred to as the ‘optimism’ bug. Everybody had commentary about the optimistic angles of the Minnesota Twins loss tonight.

Granted, they did score 5 runs tonight. That alone is pretty cool. Some nights, going into a game, it’s pretty much a toss up as to whether the Twins will actually score more than a couple (and I mean only a couple) or less runs.

Morneau

Grand slam for Morneau. Can’t complain. Great stuff.

Liriano

Regarding yesterday’s game, Liriano. I still think that Liriano will come around eventually and be a pretty good, if not great, pitcher. I mean, the guy just had major surgery. This isn’t exactly Joe Mays coming back from surgery. This is Liriano.

I found this to be an interesting recap of the return of Liriano:

Francisco Liriano became the first Twins starter since Brad Radke on May 20, 2002, to fail to survive the first inning, and the Twins lost their second straight game. Liriano, 0-3 with an 11.32 ERA since returning from Tommy John surgery, allowed six runs in two-thirds of an inning against the Athletics.

Gotta win

The Twins need a nice little winning streak of about 4 games.

The Twins need to lock this one up. C’mon, just one run.

It was fun to watch the Twins try to hit good old Eddie Guardado, but now it’s time to knock in a run or two and keep this game from going into extra innings.

I assume that the Twins will not allow Texas to score in the bottom of the 9th. That is just flat out blind confidence on my part.

On a good note, Mauer’s average is now back over .300, let’s hope he can keep it there, or maybe even drive his average higher.

I’ll take a lead-clinching home run though, too. That would be nice.

Nope, guess we won’t get that, just a pop-fly. Oh well. C’mon bullpen.

This is great. Just….. flat out great Twins baseball marketing.

Yeah!

Base hit to left field.

It’s the top of the 8th inning and the Twins are getting shut down 2-0 by the A’s. This sucks. C’mon Delmon Young, see the ball, hit the ball. See the ball, drive in some runs. See the ball, hit a home run.

I think this current Twins team will be a fine offensive team, better than most Twins fans are used to. It’ll just take some time. These guys have to gel a bit.

There are a lot of new faces, and as a collective whole, the Twins need to hit their stride.

In another month, it’ll be interesting to look at the Twins stats.

The Oakland A’s Defense

On another note, the A’s defense has been pretty funny the last couple days. Dropping balls, balls rolling between legs, it almost seems derogatory. Haha. Yeah. The the Twins know how to capitalize on this stuff.

Twins Win Tonight?

They’ll probably end up winning 3-2 with a save by Joe Nathan tonight.

About 30 more minutes and I’ll find out if that prediction was correct.

Yeah, there is actually somebody else that can hit home runs that is not named Morneau, Kubel or Harris. Granted, Harris only has one home run at this point. Kubel has 3 home runs. Morneau has 5 home runs. And now…. Monroe has 1 home run as well.

Yeah!

I wish some of the other other guys would hit home runs. It’s just so fun to see. Especially when this Twins team is touted as more of a hitting team than a pitching team. It’s kinda the opposite at this point.

Craig Monroe is having a good night overall. If Dick and Bert have it correct, he just needs to hit a triple to hit for the cycle tonight. And it’s all off of the pitcher Joe Blanton. Not too bad of a night for Craig Monroe with all things considered.

So, Kubel is running around the bases about as fast as he can go. Kubel gets waved around third base and chugs home. Suzuki, the A’s catcher, catches the ball and Kubel slides right into him.

Kubel reaches around Suzuki and touches home base. He’s called safe! Suzuki looks confused and frustrated. The A’s manager is pissed. Kubel made a heads up play and is safe. 2-0 Twins.

Yeah. The Twins are fun to watch sometimes.