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June 2006 Archives
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- Radke gets (home)run Support
- The Twins won the first game of the Milwaukee series in convincing fashion. Back-to-back homeruns from Justin Morneau and Torii Hunter in the second inning gave the Twins an early lead that they only...
- Weekend Preview: Brewers at Twins
- The Twins are riding their second longest winning streak of the season (7 games) which is separated by only 1 loss from their longest winning streak of 8 games. Milwaukee is a mediocre team, so I...
- Sportsline Power Rankings
- The Twins jumped to #5 this week in the CBS Sportsline MLB power rankings. They were #14 last week.
- Another Sweep
- The Twins completed their fourth series sweep in the month of June. They’ve swept half their series in the month and won 6 out of 8 after losing the first two series in the month. The Tigers...
- Mauer's 9 for 10 Show
- "His 5-for-5 performance makes him the first Twins player to record four hits in consecutive games in nearly 18 years. The last to accomplish that feat? A dude named Kirby Puckett."
- 5 Singles for Mauer
- Mauer topped his hit total of Monday night’s game with 5 singles on Tuesday night against the Dodgers. I wish I could say I was surprised, but Mauer had proven over the past three month’s...
- Mauer an MVP?
- "Minnesota has won primarily on the strength of its pitching, but Mauer could make a legitimate case for league MVP honors"
- Vote Mauer
- Mauer has moved into 3rd place for AL catchers. Vote 25 times by Friday to move him to #1.
- Everyone Loves Mauer
- Joe Mauer had been slumping (only by his standards) the past couple weeks, but he busted loose for 4 hits in Monday night’s series opener against the Dodgers. Joe Mauer’s 5 RBI led the...
- Chelsea Cooley
- Over the past few weeks more people have arrived at this site with the search phrase “chelsea cooley joe mauer” than any other phrase. Other than a snippet that appeared in the clubhouse...
- Player of the Week: Week 12
- The Twins continued their winning ways by taking 5 of 6 games in interleague play last week. Impressively, they beat pitchers Roy Oswalt, Roger Clemens and Mark Prior. The Twins outscored their...
- Twins Capitalize on Cubs Poor Play
- The last time I saw a team play as poorly as the Cubs did on Sunday was in late May when I walked past a little league game. The Cubs made 3 official errors in the game, but also made a number of...
- Bonser Shuts Down Cubbies
- The Twins pulled off a Saturday night victory against the Cubs in the game I thought the cubs had the best chance of winning in this series. In front of a crowd of over 42,000, half of which was made...
- Liriano an All-Star?
- Could Liriano make the All-Star team in his rookie season?
- Twins Take Opener vs Cubs
- The Twins continue to roll right along as they took Friday night’s series opener against the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs sent out unproven starter Carlos Marmol who didn’t have good command of...
- Clemens No Match for Liriano
- Roger Clemens was the talk of baseball coming into his Thursday night season debut against the Twins. However, once the game started Francisco Liriano became the true star of the game. Roger Clemens...
- Win Streak Halted in Houston
- The Twins 8-game win streak came to an end with a 5-3 loss on Wednesday night in Houston. Carlos Silva put together another quality start, but the lack of run support and a shaky outing from Kyle...
- Morneau in June
- The Strib lists Morneau's big hits in the month of June.
- Morneau's 17th Wins It
- The Twins won the first game of the series against Houston and extended their season best win streak to 8 games. The win didn’t come easy though as Brad Radke was back to his old antics of...
- Making the Playoffs
- The Twins have roled off 7 straight victories and improved to .500 for the first time since April. Due to the success, some fans are surely starting to dream of a playoff run. I decided to give a look...
- Player of the Week: Week 11
- Week 11 was a good week for the Twins. They got good pitching from their starters and bullpen and the offense came up with big hits when they needed them. The week started off with a sweep of a pretty...
- 34-34
- The Twins pulled off their second straight sweep and improved their record to 34-34 with a late inning offensive rally against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday afternoon. Johan Santana, as usual, was...
- Struggling Pitchers Combine for Win
- The Twins won their 6th straight game on Saturday night in Pittsburgh. Most impressively they did it with Boof Bonser, Kyle Lohse and Jesse Crain pitching 8 of the innings for the Twins. Those...
- Liriano Wins Duel in Pittsburgh
- Francisco Liriano’s only troubles came in the 2nd inning when he walked Ian Snell, the Pittsburgh pitcher, and then gave up a 2-run homer to Jack Wilson. Liriano was brilliant through 7 innings...
- It's a Sweep
- Nobody could’ve guessed that the Twins would sweep the Red Sox, but they pulled it off Thursday night as they continue to play their best baseball of the season. The sweep was a crushing blow to...
- Batboy takes down fan
- Video of the Boston batboy tackling a fan that got loose on the field Wednesday night.
- Walks and a Grand Slam
- Boston’s pitching pretty much handed the game to the Twins on Wednesday night. Boston issued 10 walks and hit a batter in the game. The Twins had at least one baserunner in every inning but the...
- Bartlett is Here!
- The Twins post-game show just reported that Tony Batista has been designated for assignment and Jason Bartlett is being called up. This came much sooner than I had expected, and I’m quite...
- Another Day, Another Grand Slam
- Hitting grand slams has become commonplace for the Twins over the past week. Michael Cuddyer did it last Wednesday and Saturday. Tonight it was Jason Kubel—in dramatic 12th inning fashion. After...
- More on Bartlett
- Jason Bartlett has probably attracted more attention and more emotion from the Twins blogosphere than anyone since his late March assignment to AAA Rochester. I have a feeling that Bartlett may get...
- Player of the Week: Week 10
- In week 10 the Twins lost a series in Seattle and won a home series against Baltimore for a record of 3-3. After a week of no offense, the Twins bats began to show some life by scoring a total of 36...
- Liriano Shuts Down Orioles
- Francisco Liriano had his best start of the season as he pitched 7 shutout innings and allowed just 1 hit and 2 walks. Liriano struck out 6 Oriole batters and more importantly went deeper into the...
- Comeback not Enough
- The Twins found themselves down 8-0 heading into the bottom of the 7th inning. Carlos Silva struggled in the first inning by giving up 3 runs, including a 2-run homer to Miguel Tejada. Silva then...
- Morneau Provides Power
- Twins fans haven’t had much opportunity to witness how valuable the home run can be at times; on Friday night Justin Morneau gave us a showing of the difference a longball can make. Morneau hit...
- Road Trip Ends with Win
- Thursday afternoon’s game wasn’t televised, and I only caught the last couple innings on the radio, so there’s not much for me to comment on as far as the game goes. Johan Santana...
- Draft Roundup at Seth Speaks
- Seth Stohs provides the best Twins draft analysis I've seen so far.
- Cuddyer's Slam not Enough
- I started writing this entry at about quarter to midnight Wednesday night. It was the top of the 8th and the Twins were down 9-4. I assumed the game was lost (I know—bad Twins fan) and I was...
- Failed Opportunities
- The Twins picked up 10 hits in the Tuesday’s game, but 7 of them came from two batters—Mauer and Kubel. Let’s start out with the postitives. In the 5th inning the Twins scored their...
- Draft Day
- The MLB draft draws very little attention compared to the draft of other professional leagues (NBA, NFL), for good reason. Most of the guys drafted today won’t be seen on a major league field...
- Kubel or White?
- With Shannon Stewart due to come off the DL in the next week, a decision is going to have to be made as to who will go down. Jason Kubel was called up to fill Stewart’s roster spot, so an...
- Player of the Week: Week 9
- Week 9 comprised of the first 7 games of a 10 game road trip out West for the Twins. The week, as a whole, can best be described as underachieving. Ron Gardenhire himself had the following to say in...
- Boof Fan Site
- He's only 3 starts into his major league career and Boof Bonser already has a fan site.
- Twins Nation to Join 9rules
- On May 17th 700 content sites, including Twins Nation, applied to join the 9rules network. On Saturday the list of the 111 sites that were preliminarily selected was released. I’m proud to...
- Offense Still Missing
- Through the 4-game series in Oakland the Twins scored just 4 runs, so it’s no surprise they came out of the series with just one win. What’s the cause of the offense slump? It’s...
- Blunders Cause Another Loss
- After the worst start to a season of his career, Brad Radke has put together two pretty good outings and the Twins have still lost both of them. Baseball is a funny game; for two months we cursed...
- Santana Dominates in Oakland
- Friday night’s victory can almost entirely be credited to Johan Santana’s performance, with an assist going to Justin Morneau for his 8th inning homerun. Johan gave up a solo homer to...
- Where's Bartlett?
- A good rundown of just how ridiculous the "Bartlett lacks leadership" fiasco is.
- No Run Support for Boof
- Boof was hurt by the 3 homeruns he gave up in the game, but overall he pitched pretty well. He gave up just 2 other hits and didn’t walk any batters. Zito, however, shut down the Twins offense,...
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