Twins Sweep The White Sox!!!

[Lynch]

Three game series starts tonight in Chicago vs the defending WS champs.

Pitching matchups for this series:

• Mon, Jul 24 8:05 pm : B. Radke vs. J. Vázquez
• Tue, Jul 25 8:05 pm : J. Santana vs. J. Contreras
• Wed, Jul 26 2:05 pm : C. Silva vs. M. Buehrle

For the Twins, this is a very important series. The Twins have been the hottest team in baseball for the past 5 weeks running. This is a chance to close the gap in the wild card race. Currently, the Twins are 3.0 games behind the Sox in the WC race (and 9.5 behind the Tigers).


Go Twins

[mntwinsfan]

Radke MUST be ready tonight. IF he is we can win 2-3! Silva is the only one that worries me. Anything can happen both teams know how big of a series this is! We win the Series we are back in it. Should be an interesting series!

[Lynch]

If we could win all three, that would absolutely rock and we'd be even/steven at by Wednesday night (in the WC race that is), however, I don't think we can win more than 2, which only gains us one game. Still, it's extremely important to take the series (at bare minimum). A solid outting by Radke is key to winning the series.

[Lynch]

Radke up to his usual performance is pitching well, as long as you don't count the two home runs he gave up in the first 5 innings.


Thankfully the Twins answered with 2 homers in the top of the 6th. One by Morneau (26th) and one by Cuddyer (13th). Score in the middle of the 6th is Twins 3, Sox 2

Here's a pic of Cuddy coming into homeplate after his 2 run shot:

[Lynch]

Nice, in the top of the 7th, Mauer hits his 8th dinger of the season. 2 on and 2 outs to boot, so the Twins now lead 6-2

[Lynch]

Twins take the first game 7-4. Six total home runs in this game (3 by each team). Radke picks up win #9 on the season. Mauer knocks in 4 RBIs including a 3 run shot. Too bad he couldn't get a basehit in the 8th when the bases were loaded with 1 out. He did pick up the sac fly and someone scored though, so it helped ensure the lead and the win.

1 down, 2 to go.

[Lynch]

Game 2:


THis is a game I wish I could watch, as it looked to be a hell of a pitching matchup: J. Santana vs. J. Contreras

Bottom of the 5th right now and the score is tied 1-1. Both pitchers giving up a solo longball. WTF is it with that this series!? That's 8 Homeruns in 1.5 games.

Anyway, in 4.1 innings so far, Santana has thrown 6 K's and Contreras has thrown 4. Good pitching duel

[Lynch]

Another big night with the big bats, 4 HRs combined again last night (2 for each team).

Twins win 4-3, Santana picks up his 12th win (12-5 on the year) and Nathan picks up save #20. HRs by Kubel and Bartlett.

[Lynch]

Game 3 is under way (middle of the 8th inning) and the good guys are leading 7-4 More home runs as well, Cuddy hit #14 on the year (2 runs score) and Morneau hit #27 on the year (2 runs scored)

1.5 Innings to go!

[Lynch]

Twins win the game 7-4 and SWEEP THE SOX! :booya:


Silva somehow picks up the win for his 5 innings pitched and Nathan picks up his 21st save of the season.


I hate to admit it, but I might get back on the Twins bandwagon again.

[Lynch]

BTW: With the sweep, that ties us with the Sox for the lead in the AL Wild Card race. The Twins picked up 9 games in the WC race this month.