Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 13, 2008
Twins Stop Yankees

The Twins defeat the Yankees 4-2 on the strength of a Delmon Young three-run homer. As in the game one, the Yankees pitchers were good enough to earn the win, but the offense wasn't up to a low walk, low strikeout pitcher. New York put the ball in play against Kevin Slowey, but only managed three hits on nineteen of those batted balls. Slowey stayed in the strike zone, throwing 61 of 91 pitches for strikes.

The Twins now stand two games behind the Red Sox in the wild card race and for the moment are even with the White Sox in the AL Central race. They've put one game between them and the Yankees in this series, who are now 3 1/2 games behind the Twins and five behind the Red Sox.

The Yankees score 43 runs on the 10 game road trip and allow 59 for a 3-7 record. As much as you hear complaints about the pitching, the offense is just as bad.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:43 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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In the 2 losses to Minn NYY had 1 xbh - they made 2 infield errors today - 1 unearned run. They are weak defensively up the middle, thin starting pitching. Going to be very difficult for them to cATCH UP.

Posted by: bandit at August 13, 2008 05:42 PM

Well, allowing 5.9 runs per game makes whatever offense they can generate seem low. But 4.3 per game ain't 3 and 7. It really is their pitching, David.

Posted by: John Perricone at August 14, 2008 01:05 AM

What's Girardi to do with Robinson Cano? It's been many years since I've seen such uninspired play. The man is simply mailing it in. Who thinks Cano might be made available this off-season?

Posted by: Mick at August 14, 2008 08:19 AM
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