Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 01, 2006
Twins Win the Central

Kenny Rogers, pitching in his second inning of relief, comes undone as the Royals score two runs on three hits and two walks. The Tigers fail to score in the bottom of the 12th. They become the Wild Card and travel to New York, while the Twins stay home to host the Oakland Athletics, in a rematch of the 2002 ALDS.

Through games of August 7th, the Tigers were 76-36, Minnesota 65-46, 10 1/2 games back. The Twins go 31-20 while the Tigers fall to 19-31. It's not the most colossal fall of all time (after all, Detroit did make the playoffs), but it's certainly a memorable one.

Congratulations to the Twins for winning the Central, and to Joe Mauer for winning the batting title with a .347 mark.


Posted by David Pinto at 05:49 PM | Division Races | TrackBack (0)
Comments

This was such a great game to watch. What a demoralizing loss though for the Tigers. They beat the 100 loss Royals today and they stay home but they couldn't hold on to the lead. I think they limp into NY for the playoffs.

Posted by: Jason at October 1, 2006 05:59 PM

If that chart you posted 3 weeks ago holds true (you know, the one about how a team fares against good pitching), then it should be Yankees-Twins for the AL Championship series.

Posted by: Devon at October 1, 2006 06:41 PM

who says there aren't any good division races????

chicago didn't even make the playoffs

Posted by: lisa gray at October 2, 2006 12:46 AM

re: the tigers loss to the royals

I hate to say this, but some of the mistakes made by the tigers in blowing their lead to the royals looked so amateurish that I question whether they were made on purpose.

a lot of those kids are earning league minimum.

one surely wonders.

after all, who wins the division when both are going to the playoffs is an issue that only a gambler would be interested in.

--art kyriazis, philly

Posted by: art kyriazis at October 2, 2006 04:07 PM
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