August 26, 2008
Beltre Blasts
The Twins fell to the Mariners Monday night on a blown by good old reliable Joe Nathan. Adrian Beltre doubled leading off the ninth and scored on a double play. Then in the 11th, with one out and a man on first, Adrian ended the game:
Adrian Beltre hit a ball as hard as any Mariner has hit one all season Monday night.
And the way the season has gone, no one would have been surprised if Beltre's 11th-inning blast off Minnesota's Jesse Crain was hit too hard.
"He crushed that ball, but it had so much topspin on it that I thought, 'Oh, man, that ball isn't going to clear the fence,' " manager Jim Riggleman said.
And if it didn't clear the fence?
"There's no way I'm going to score from first if that ball hits the wall," Raul Ibanez said. "I doubt if there is any human alive who's going to score on that ball, as hard as he hit it. He smoked that ball."
It did clear the fence, and that dropped the Twins one game behind the White Sox and 1 1/2 game behind the Red Sox.
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Twins lose with Liriano facing Bautista. Get 1 R in 6 innings against a guy who comes into the game with a 6.5 ERA.