Twins Live to See Another Day

Posted by John on October 1, 2009 under John | 4 Comments to Read

So the Twins set out to take three of four from the Tigers in Detroit, but left with a 2-2 split and a very slim hope for a playoff berth.

After a crazy split double-header on Tuesday the Twins suffered a tough loss Wednesday night and then saved their season today with a victory. It’s tough to dive deep into these games as there were so many big moments and varied emotions. I can’t call the series anything but a disappointment, but yet I’m not too surprised with the outcome.

The Twins played a tough game against Rick Porcello, ran into a dominating Justin Verlander, but the real killer was scoring just two runs against Eddie Bonine last night. The most unfortunate thing about last night’s loss was that the Twins looked like a team that just ran out of gas. They’ve shown so much fight and determination, but last night I felt like they played uninspired and defeated from the opening pitch.

On the bright side of things the Twins were able to make tomorrow night’s game at the Metrodome meaningful and give all of us Twins fans a reason to watch the scoreboards and become Chicago White Sox fans for the weekend. ESPN says no team in baseball history has ever made the playoffs down two games with just three to play, but we can hope right?

TARGET FIELD TICKET GIVEAWAY UPDATE

I created an Excel document to track all the entries for the Joe Mauer 2009 batting average contest. There were over 30 guesses submitted between TwinsMVB.com and YouTube. Unfortunately, some people guessed an average that had already been submitted, so those individuals are listed in the second and third columns. As of Thursday evening, Mauer leads the majors with a .367 average.

AVG.

.382 Betsy Bissen
.381 Kevin Kukowski
.379 Mike Kinsella, Melissa Holm
.378 Bryan Schumacher, Derek Shoden
.377 Nikole Muzzy, Lori Haugen
.376 Josh Raymond
.37572 Steph Sullivan
.37524 Topper Anton
.375 Megan Wellner
.374 Joey Almars
.3735 Brad Silber
.373 Greg Davis
.372 Lucas Severson
.371 Todd Rathbun, Rick Prescott, Lauren
.370 Andrew Kneeland, Ethan Morey
.369 Matt Taylor
.368 Dana Menard, Peter Ilten
.3673 Mark Varner
.367 Kellen Boerger, Kyle
.366 Kirk Meyer
.3654 Alan Johnson
.364 Steve
.362 Adam Taylor

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