The Blue Jays are really starting to piss me off. Tonight the Twins had several breaks that set up juicy scoring opportunities only to have the BJ's keep wriggling out of them. Like in the first inning, when Joe Mauer hit into a double play, but he and Jason Bartlett took advantage of a fielding error and beat the tag and the throw to first. Then they executed a double steal, so the Twins had two extremely fast runners on second and third, but failed get them home. Then there was Cuddyer getting thrown out at home to kill a rally in the third... the whole game was close enough that any missed opportunity could have made the difference. Like sending Boof back out to start the 7th, when he'd given up three doubles in the 6th, and he gave up a lead-off double that turned into the winning run. Then again, 11 hits and 4 errors (two on the same play) by the BJ's should have turned into more run support. When Josh Towers had a disastrous attempt to pick off Nick Punto, missing 1st base entirely and letting Punto run to 3rd while a search party was being gathered to track down the ball, and followed that up with a pitch over his catcher's head that allowed Punto to dash home while Gregg Zaun chased the ball to the back stop, I really couldn't have imagined he'd come away with the win. And Zaun even got charged for a passed ball on that horrid pitch, proof that Towers has a deal with the devil. Frank Thomas, always a Twin killer with the Black Sox, is still stuck on 499 home runs with another game to play tomorrow, so that should be interesting.
W-Towers
L-BOOF
SV-Accardo
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