Danks is way up in the zone with all his pitches. 3rd straight game he's really struggled to keep the ball down in the zone.

Ripped by Rios, but out. Regardless, he is all over the ball right now.

 

He looks awesome, I'd rather he start batting 3rd and Jones 5th.

Nice play Alexei!!

nice lexi, very nice

Fantastic play by Alexei, nice double play!

Let's just hope Beckham can pull out of this funk...I don't want to watch Nix/Vizquel playing 2B for the rest of the season.

 

But we have to be careful that we don't let him scuffle too much. FWIW, I would give him 2-3 more weeks, also dependent on how well the Twins are playing and their divisional lead.

 

The walks are encouraging, and the K was a nasty pitch, it's more troubling when he's swinging and missing average fastballs. Last year he probably swung and missed 10 times per week.

Danks is way up in the zone with all his pitches. 3rd straight game he's really struggled to keep the ball down in the zone.

 

And yet he can pitch through so-so stuff and gut it out much more effectively than Floyd or Peavy (so far).

castro looks fatter

okay kotsay - DO SOMETHING

Gonna be a long night if all the righties continue to try and pull Eveland.

This bottom third might be the worst ever. Mercy.

Damn, thought that was gone off the bat.

WTP for Kotsay

Home run if not the for wind knocking that ball down.

 

Kotsay really needed that ball to go out...just symbolizes his early season struggles to make a consistent contribution.

Dumb dumb play that was, Beckham. You weren't getting him out either way.

for god sake just stop with that, you're not very good at it

Error on Beckham. Threw a barehander (nice) over the head of Konerko (not nice).

Dankys with the nice play! 2 down.

Beckham's slowing down so much to get in position to bare hand it, and it's giving him no chance of getting the guy out.

Get a hit right here Juannie

I swear Nix is our best base runner.

Goddamn, Gordon Beckham...

So who's more of a disappointment this year? Becks or CQ ?

Holy s***, Beckham sucks this season. He's missed both 2 strike pitches by a foot.

Alright, for real. Beckham's gotta sit.. he's not even hitting the ball, just K'ing. Maybe he needs some AAA pitching to cure his swing?