Minnesota
had a good sports week including the Wild making the playoffs, Vikings grade A
draft and now add the Twins splitting a series against the Western Division
leader, Texas Rangers.
The Twins
have had four 2 game series in a row and now the team was able to actually
finish a full series and 4 games to boot.
Rangers came
in with a top 5 American League record and took the first 2 games. The Twins
did not back down and took games 3 and 4.
The Twins
got 3 very good starts in Game 1, 3 and 4. Game 2 had Scott Diamond have an
unusual start giving up 12 hits.
Game 1 Vance
Worley lost a 2-1 game, Game 3 Pedro Hernandez pitches outstanding and the last
game Twins best pitcher to date Kevin Coreia got his 5th quality start
in the early season.
I thought an
unusual stats but good for the Twins is when I look at the home run totals for
both teams. The Texas Rangers team seems to always be a power hitting team. The
final stats: Texas 1 Twins 4. It was nice to see Oswaldo get hit 2nd
of the year, Willingham get 2 in one series and Morneau get his 2nd
of the season. This is so encouraging to see power and even more exciting to
out homer Texas.
Aaron Hicks
who has struggled so badly now has his average over 100 at .118 and got his
first extra-base hit of the season on Saturday with a double.
Moday we had
snow and now this four game series Game 1, the teams played in 51 degree
weather and the last day in the mid 70’s. Saturday and Sunday’s beautiful
weather saw the Twins heat up in the scoring outscoring the Rangers 12-2. Wow is
all I can say.
It is truly
a long season but I sure like what I am seeing out of this team. A game over
500 and the Twins are tied with Kansas City as the two best in the division in
the last 10 games with both going 7-3.
The Twins
now go on a 10 day road trip and face division rival Detroit Tigers and get the
luck of the draw facing the Tigers best including Justin Verlander.
Thanks for
reading
Purplestick
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