What a game, what a finish! In yesterdays post I mentioned that the offense would have to come alive to get wins against this Red Sox team and sunday night it did. Monroe hit 2 bombs and even Adam Everett hit one. The Twins had scored enough runs to be ahead of the Sox 9-6 entering the ninth. Then came the drama. J.D. Drew had just doubled in a run and the Sox had 2nd and 3rd with one out. Crisp hit one off Nathan onto the turf, Nathan alertly got Drew trying for third and only one run scored and now there was two outs. Manny pinch hit for the Sox and grounded out to Everett to finally put this one in the books. Whew! Nathan had his 12th save of the season.
The win kept the Twins in first for at least one more day and clinchedy at least a split in the 4 game series with the Red Sox. I was very happy with the Twins ability to score runs early and finally get some home runs on the board as well. What worries me is the bullpen. With Nehshek out the road to Nathan is not looking very good. Nick Blackburn put up a decent showing allowing 4 runs in 6.
Tonite 6:10 Clay Bucholz 2-2 at Livan Hernandez 5-1
Livan is coming off his perfect game last week. The Red Sox have very good hitters so hopefully Livan can change speeds and get them to produce lot of ground outs. Once again the Twins will need a lot of offense to win. Lineup changes inlcude Redmond at catcher Mauer at DH, Monroe in left, Harris at 2nd and Casilla at short. Twins loooking for win number 20 and a series win over the Sox.
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