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June 2007 Archives
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- Taking a few days off
- Just a quick note, that I’m gonna be taking the weekend off from the blog. Be sure to check up on the Clubhouse for all the great Twins coverage it has to offer. Thursday’s game featured...
- Doing the little things
- Everyone in the Twins’ organization constantly preaches about doing the little things right. Dick and Bert seemed to emphasize the importance of playing defense, stealing, bunting, etc. even...
- Boof's WHIFF rate
- Found via the comments on SBG's blog: a discussion of Bonser's well above average WHIFF rates.
- Baker shines in pitchers' duel
- Last night in his post-game press conference Ron Gardenhire was clear about the need for starters to pitch deeper into games. Kevin Slowey had just turned in a five inning start and Matt Guerrier gave...
- Justin Morneau injury update
- "It was a little embarrassing," he said Tuesday, his first day back with the Minnesota Twins since being injured in Miami on Friday. "You run the catcher, the catcher's supposed to fall
- Wigginton in June
- Just pointing out his numbers… BAOBASLGOPSHR Jun 26.349.402.547.9493 Stats are through 6/25/2007....
- Blue Jays power past Twins
- Kevin Slowey allowed 2 homeruns and 5 total runs through 5 innings on Monday night as the Blue Jays edged the Twins by a score of 8-5. The Twins had been 4-0 in Slowey starts before the game. Slowey...
- Santana helps Twins win series
- The Twins scored first in the game when Joe Mauer hit a solo homerun, just his second of the year, off start Byun-Hyun Kim. Johan Santana gave away the lead in the bottom of the inning on a Dan Uggla...
- The improvement of Bartlett and Kubel
- I’m a little late for a full recap of Saturday nights game. It was a good one for the Twins bats and Carlos Silva, with his early run support, was able to settle in for a nice seven innings of...
- Morneau injured in loss
- The Twins tied the Marlins 4-4 in the eighth, but it came with a huge cost. Scott Ulger initially held up Justin Morneau on a Jason Kubel double to left, but when Josh Willingham had trouble fielding...
- Win-loss records don't tell the whole story
- A must-read for anyone who has a ballot in the Cy Young voting
- Baker gets a win
- Scott Baker picked up his first victory since his season debut on May 19th in Milwaukee. He was pulled after five innings in favor of a pinch hitter after pitching two scoreless innings. The pinch hit...
- 9 of the best arms in baseball
- A couple Twins made Jerry Crasnick's list of the best arms in baseball.
- Santana tosses a shutout
- Johan Santana had his most successful start of 2007 and threw his first shutout since 2005 (and only 4th in his career) on Tuesday night against the Mets. The 9-0 victory was a nice turnaround from...
- 34 and 34
- The Twins are now exactly at that milestone record of last season, 34-34. It was the day they finally reached .500 and they went on to never drop below that again. This year the Twins could very well...
- Morneau overcomes late Brewer comeback
- The Twins put together a 9-2 lead after five innings of baseball on Sunday, but Kevin Slowey and Juan Rincon allowed them to creep back into things which set up an interesting ninth inning. Slowey...
- Offense absent again
- Boof Bonser turned in a decent start on Saturday night against the Brewers, but once again the offense gave the starting pitcher virtually no chance to win. The Twins bats were up against Dave Bush,...
- Brewers offense bashes Twins
- Scott Baker’s start was going along just fine through the first three innings. It looked like he might repeat the success he had in his season debut in Milwaukee last month when he came just shy...
- Twins sweep the Braves
- Even after 16 years, the baseball gods refuse to allow the Atlanta Braves to win in the dome. It looked like they had the victory pretty much wrapped up on Thursday night as they headed into the...
- Silva shuts out Braves
- The Twins offense attached Braves starter, Chuck James early, and Carlos Silva bounced back from a poor start last time out with his best performance in two years. Silva went the distance and allowed...
- Braves still can't win in the dome
- If my math is correct, the Braves have a 5 game losing streak in the Dome dating back to October of 1991. The victory on Tuesday night brought the Twins back to the .500 mark at 31-31. Despite not...
- Series Preview - Atlanta Braves
- The Twins are just coming off an embarrassing series loss to the last place team in the NL East, the Washington Nationals, and now they’ll host the 2nd place Atlanta Braves. The Braves are...
- Twins seeking another bat
- Ty Wigginton of Tampa Bay is mentioned as a possible target of the Twins
- Twins win finale against Nationals
- The Twins have lost their third straight series by a score of by a score of 2 games to 1. On Sunday they were in the lead for the entire game after scoring 3 runs right away in the first inning. Only...
- Sunday Notes
- Castillo is Spanish for “single” Jayson Stark, on his Insider Blog, wrote about Luis Castillo’s low slugging percentage. He’s currently on pace to break his own record, set in...
- Spiraling downwards
- Coming into this series I really thought the Twins had a legitimate shot at a sweep. Not only were they playing one of the worst teams in baseball, but they were facing three starting pitches who were...
- Silva hit hard by Nats
- Carlos Silva retired just 9 batters in 3+ innings while allowing 9 hits and 2 walks. The light-hitting Nationals put up a .500 batting average and a 21.00 ERA against Silva in what was his shortest...
- Series preview - Washington Nationals
- The Twins will return to the Metrodome after a rough 2-4 road trip to the west coast. They’re probably a bit relieved (I know I am) to be getting back into interleague play. The National league...
- Twins draft Ben Revere
- The Twins drafted Ben Revere as their first pick (28th overall) of the 2007 amateur draft. He’s straight out of Lexington Catholic HS in Kentucky and is described as a speedy guy with a light...
- Two unlikely homers
- Apologies for the late game recap, Late nights caught up with me and I didn’t get the time or energy to write this last night. Through the first few innings it seemed like more of the same from...
- Offensive slump continues
- Less than a week ago it looked like the Twins’ season was turning around. They had won 5 straight and 8 out of 9 and were slowly closing the gap between them and the division leading Indians....
- Twins draft woes
- "Who's the most star-crossed team? The Twins have to be up there: they not only passed up on Dwight Gooden in 1983 but also missed out on Roger Clemens in 1984"
- Angels blast Twins with 23 hits
- The final two games in Oakland caused some concern about a Twins offensive slump. That offensive slump continued while the Angels piled up 16 runs on 23 hits in the series opener on Monday night. A...
- Series preview - LA Angels
- The Twins will continue their short west coast swing with a 3-game set in Anaheim to face the Angels. The Twins will send out 3 starters who have a combined 58 career starts at the big league level....
- Missed opportunites
- Johan Santana wasn’t exactly on his game Sunday in Oakland, but the Twins still had chances to win the game. When scoring opportunities came up, Twins hitters simply couldn’t get the job...
- No run support for Silva
- For the fourth time this season, the Twins were shutout while Carlos Silva took the mound. Sadly, on all four occasions Silva pitched well enough to give the Twins the win. Silva allowed just 1 run...
- Slowey lives up to hype in debut
- Friday night’s game was one that almost surely would not have been won with Ramon Ortiz starting. The Twins offense was able to score just 1 run off Oakland lefty Joe Kennedy in 8 innings. Kevin...
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