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Baseball Musings
May 05, 2007
Good Old Reliable Nathan

Joe Nathan finishes off the Red Sox, getting Ortiz to fly out to center and Ramirez to strike out with Youkilis at first. Joe gets his eighth save and lowers his batting average allowed to .310.

Johan Santana takes home the win despite Julien Tavarez turning in an excellent performance. Tavarez pitched one more inning than Santana, gave up fewer hits and struck out more batters. But walks and a couple of ground balls, one for an infield hit led to two runs, which was all the Twins needed tonight as they defeat the Red Sox 2-1.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:10 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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The walks shouldn't have mattered / happened. The fielding error charged to WMP, which accounted for an extra base given to whoever got on before Tavarez's first walk, came on an easy flyball to shallow center. Pena either lost it temporarily or got one of the worst jumps ever, because it was definitely just a routine flyball. The error came after he bobbled it on the bounce. With even an average CF, that's a routine out, and the way Tavarez threw, the Twins probably don't score that inning.

Lowell dropped a liner that inning, too, allowing the second run to score on an infield single. Not an error, but it was a play he could, and probably should have made. Tavarez was far and away the better pitcher tonight.

Posted by: the other josh at May 5, 2007 10:29 PM

well said josh

Posted by: wayne at May 6, 2007 01:24 AM

Well, the other half of the game was that when the Twins put runners on, they scored, where the Sox spent a lot of time not advancing runners past 2nd and sometime 3rd.

Posted by: NBarnes at May 6, 2007 04:38 AM

Could've, should've...didn't.

Posted by: bill at May 6, 2007 02:00 PM
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