Tigers 7, Twins 4 Twins 4 at Tigers 7 May 16th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twins | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| Tigers | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
Another game, another terrible outing by a Twins starter. This is getting old and it’s giving me a helpless feeling. The Twins have 4 starters that are struggling mightily, one of which has been replaced with Francisco Liriano. What do you do about the other 3 (Radke, Lohse, Baker)? Radke will stay and he’ll be unspectacular but not terrible. Lohse and Baker are more of a concern. I’m glad I’m not Gardy.
Tuesday night the Twins had a 3 run lead in the 3rd when Kyle Lohse fell apart and gave up 5 runs without escaping the inning. He was getting ahead of batters, and then walking them; it was simply terrible. Willie Eyre struggled in relief of Lohse, but Matt Guerrier (minus a bases loaded walk) and Jesse Crain were pretty good in relief.
As far as the bats went, it was a night of failed opportunities and stranded runners. In the fifth inning Luis Castillo and Joe Mauer started off the inning with singles to setup runners at the corners and no outs. Torii Hunter popped out to shortstop, Cuddyer flew out to shallow right and Justin Morneau flew out to end the scoreless inning.
In the 7th inning after a Castillo basehit and walks by Mauer and Hunter, the Twins were again unable to do much damage. The only run came on a bases loaded walk issued to Morneau. The Twins offense had plenty of opportunities to bail out Lohse tonight, but 3 double plays and lack of timely hitting squandered multiple opportunities.
Game Notes
- Luis Castillo reached base all 5 of his plate appearances in the game.
- Torii Hunter was 2-for-4 with a walk.
- Rondell White extended his hit streak to 11 games by going 1-for-4
- Nick Punto played SS in place of Juan Castro who is still suffering from a jammed pinkie finger. Punto was 2-for-4.
- Kyle Lohse has an 8.92 ERA. The only thing that might save him from losing his job is that Silva took away the Twins most viable replacement already. Remember, Lohse barely held on to his role with his decent start last week.
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