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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:09 PM) Damnit Paulie Twins are crushing the cookies today, and our hitters unfortunately aren't. Someone's going to have to get a big hit today for us to get back into this game.

There we go Rios, best swing of the series!

Zack Attack

BTW, talk about pitching away from your defense. Rios was shading Cuddyer to right center, and Garcia threw a fastball. It's those little things that hurt us when we play the Twins.

Awful pitch by Garcia gives the Twins that run back. Garcia making more bad pitches today than he did during the last month. I really hope KW doesn't panic about the starting pitching when it's the offense that needs a boost.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 08:02 PM) Great. Another sore wrist. He'll recover around ASB of 2012

Hopefully Beckham didn't just injure himself. Last thing we need is for his swing to be impacted.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:59 PM) I wonder if Earl Weaver, who hated the bunt, ever cared about guys hitting the other way and moving them over. I'm just making conversation. I realize it's what you are suppposed to do and all that. But if you slam a double off the left field wall, nobody's caring you didn't move the runner over. Don't freak, I'm just asking. That's fine if you want to play for the 3 run home run...but this park isn't the right place to be playing that way.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) If Beckham had hit that ball a little to either side, he'd have failed to get the runner over as well. Oh come on...with one out, you're not worried about that. I know you know that.

Balta, are you freaking serious? Castro failed to get the runner over, and never made one attempt. Even Hawk talked about it.

Very nice Beckham!! Great to get a run back.

Awful, awful AB by Castro. Please end the personal catcher BS Ozzie! Our offense isn't good enough to put us at a disadvantage.

Looks like Alexei knew what he was doing! Time to get some runs off of this bum.

Twins have hit so many balls hard this series. Young/Mauer/Hardy seem to hit rockets every AB.

Badger, it seems we scout the Twins worse than anyone, and they scout us better than anyone.

Garcia leaving a ton of breaking balls up in the zone. Delmon still kicks Garcia's ass after the HBP in his first AB.

ASB wasn't too kind to our offensive rhythm, it seems.

Nicely done by Garcia.

That's just nasty by Mauer.

J4L, I'm still not sold Rios is 100% healthy. He got all of those days off prior to the ASB (for reasons that were never explained)

Well, Stone jinxed the hell out of Rios in that AB. Rios needs a break, as he doesn't look very good at the plate. He's slow to turn on fastballs on the inner half.

Great bunt by Omar there!

You think the Cardinals are happy to win the first 3 games of their series? Check out their lineup today! The NL is so pathetic.

Wait, Werth wouldn't be an offensive upgrade from Jones and Kotsay? Why is it that the trade deadline always brings the most unrealistic views of Sox players?

Werth is going to get a huge contract this offseason. No thanks!