After a tough loss Friday night at Jacobs Field, Carlos Silva (W 10-13, 5.88 ERA) gave the Twins a chance to come back and take the series lead. After a rocky mid-season for Silva, he has changed up his pitches in recent starts, particularly the way he grips the ball. Again, he avoided that high breaking ball that usually leaves the park and stuck with that low slider, forcing 11 ground outs and 8 fly outs. This is thanks in part to Minnesota's outstanding infielders. On a Silva start, the defense really needs to be on it's toes to field some tough grounders and turn double plays. In seven innings, Carlos allowed only 1 run on 5 hits, walking a batter and striking out two. Cleveland's one run came in the first inning on a Victor Martinez RBI single. Dennys Reyes (0.97 ERA) came out and tossed a scoreless 2/3 of the eighth before Juan Rincon (2.90 ERA) was brought in to take care of Ryan Garko to end the inning. Automatic Joe Nathan (1.76 ERA) recorded his 33rd save of the season with a perfect ninth.
Smell em! Mike Redmond, who has proven to be clutch in his every opportunity when Joe Mauer sits, went 3 for 4 with 3 RBIs. Torii Hunter hit his 26th home run of the season in the fourth, bringing him just 3 shy of his career high 29, in 2002. Captain Cheeseburger (L 11-10, 3.26 ERA) was without his ketchup this evening, allowing 3 runs on 10 hits with one walk in seven innings pitched. No wonder he hates the Twins.
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The Twins put righty Scott Baker (4-8, 6.72 ERA) on the hill Sunday afternoon at the Jake against Paul Byrd (9-7, 4.83 ERA) and the Tribe. Baker has yet to stabalize his Major League career while Byrd is 2-0 against the Twins this year.
With Chicago losing 7-4 Saturday afternoon to Oakland, Minnesota takes a 3 game lead in the Wild Card Standings. The Twins remain 2 games behind Detroit, as they beat Baltimore 2-0.
Batting Title Watch: Derek Jeter (.343) went 1 for 5 during both the Yankee's 7-5 win and their 5-2 loss to the Red Sox Saturday, falling behind in the rankings to Joe Mauer (.344), who had the evening off.
With Chicago losing 7-4 Saturday afternoon to Oakland, Minnesota takes a 3 game lead in the Wild Card Standings. The Twins remain 2 games behind Detroit, as they beat Baltimore 2-0.
Batting Title Watch: Derek Jeter (.343) went 1 for 5 during both the Yankee's 7-5 win and their 5-2 loss to the Red Sox Saturday, falling behind in the rankings to Joe Mauer (.344), who had the evening off.
2 comments:
Another great outing by Carlos Silva. I hope the team shows him how big these outings from him have been. He deserves to know that he is doing great...sometimes I think he is overlooked. But he did helping us out majorly :) Let's win another one.
hopefully someone bought him dinner!
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