MINNESOTA SPORTS ROCKS

MINNESOTA SPORTS ROCKS

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

No quit Twins do it again


The Twins have just finished their first 3 games of the road trip in Detroit and they finished it on a good note winning the last game 6-2.

The Twins win puts them at 12-12 which is super impressive as I look back to the 2012 season and see the team was 6-18 after 24.  The team’s new addition of pitchers to the staff has helped quite a bit. Vance Worley for now seems the one to be struggling. I am confident Twins pitching Coach Anderson will help him overcome the struggles or at least I hope he can.

The series had no errors committed by either team which I find a little shocking but in a good way. 27 innings of no error baseball is a true baseball fans delight along with a win of course.

The Twins struck out 31 times in the 3 game series with 10, 10 and 11 in the 3 games. The Twins got to face the Tigers 3 best with the results verifying the legitimate pitching staff the Tigers have.

In terms of pitching I was quite pleased how Twin’s Scott Diamond rebounded in Game 3 getting the win after giving up 12 hits in his last start. I liked Diamond last season and so far this season he looks to be strong other than last start.

Game 3 also had a nice feature by a Twins player. Ryan Doumit played catcher threw out a Tigers would be base stealer and stole a base himself. What a day for Doumit.

Aaron Hicks continues to plug away and I appreciate his effort. A triple in Wednesday’s game is a nice ego boost for our rookie center fielder. Keep up the good work Aaron.

I was looking at the attendance for the 3 games and saw something I thought was strange. The Wednesday day game had the biggest crowd of the series with 87 percent of capacity. A weekday game in a work week saw more people than 2 night games after work that had 72 and 77 percent of capacity.

The Twins now have a day off.  One of the many reasons I think a lot of them is what happened Wednesday. The team loses the first 2 but comes back to take the 3rd. A team that does not quit is exciting and nice to see.

I believe we are in for a special season, so let’s keep up the faith in the team and we will see in October how special the season was.

GO TWINS

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