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Justin Morneau gave the Twins an early lead on Tuesday night with a solo home run in the second inning. The Twins saw that lead vanish in the third and then a Boof Bonser throwing error allowed 3 runs to score in the sixth inning which gave the White Sox a 4-1 lead. The offense for the Twins continued to fail. They weren't getting timely hits and when they had runners on base they were hitting into double plays. Another loss seemed imminent until the eighth.

Last night's game between the Detroit Tigers finally got back to a level that was bearable to watch, or listen to, as was my case last night. After a stretch of games featuring no clutch hitting, fielding errors and mental mistakes all-around this game was actually well played by both sides. Through the first six innings there was again no sign of Twins' offense, but that all changed in the seventh and eighth.

Seattle held a narrow 1-run lead against Johan Santana and the Twins for most of this game, but the Twins were able to put together a big inning in the seventh and hold off a ninth inning charge from the Mariners to win the game and sweep the 3 game series. The Mariners scored first when Ichiro reached on a Jason Bartlett throwing error. Ichiro was thrown caught in a run-down later in the inning between third and home, but it allowed Jose Vidro to move to second and be driven in by a Raul Ibanez single.

In 2005 Johan Santana started off the season with 3 straight victories. He was poised to do it again, but one bad inning and the lack of offensive support sent the Twins and Johan to a loss against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The Twins could muster only 2 runs against the tough lefty, Scott Kazmir.

It was another ugly night of Twins baseball at the dome. Once again the Twins bats made a struggling pitcher look brilliant. Andy Pettitte pitched six shutout innings before the Twins finally scored their only run of the game off Scott Proctor in the seventh. Boof Bonser got hit hard. He allowed 2 homers and a double and couldn't make it out of the fifth inning.

Much to my surprise, Carlos Silva put together a good start on Monday agains the Texas Rangers. It was one of those nights where he could've given up 6 or 7 runs thanks to 15 runs in the first 6 innings by Minnesota's offense. It's good to see Silva put together a decent start. The Twins need to shore up the bottom half of the rotation if they have any chance of finding themselves in the playoffs this fall.

The Twins dug themselves a six run hole on Saturday night and they nearly worked themselves out of it, but Detroit added a couple late insurance runs to hold on to the lead. Brad Radke pitched only 3 innings and he ran into trouble in all of them. He gave up 7 hits and 4 runs before Kyle Lohse came in for the fourth. Lohse quickly gave up a two-run homer in the fourth to put the Twins down by 6. He did, however, come back with 2 scoreless innings.

If not for Terry Tiffee's error in the top of the ninth, Francisco Liriano would've had his first career complete game shutout. Tiffee pinch hit in the eighth for Justin Morneau and then took over at first in the field in the ninth. A routine grounder thrown to first dropped out of Tiffee's glove to allow the leadoff runner to reach. After getting two outs Liriano gave up a single which allowed the first and only Tampa Bay run of the game to score. Ron Gardenhire opted to have Kyle Lohse come in to get the final out of the game.

The Twins got news that Torii Hunter would be the third Twin added to the DL in the past few days. An MRI found that Hunter had a fracture in his foot. Rondell White rejoined the roster today to replace Shannon Stewart and Nick Punto again found himself in the unfamiliar territory of center field on Sunday. Carlos Silva put together a fair start and the Twins managed to take the series 3 game to 1. The victory was most impressive considering the Twins did it with a team that resembled their AAA affiliate Rochester Redwings. On April 4th the following players were in AAA:

Much to my surprise, Carlos Silva put together a good start on Monday agains the Texas Rangers. It was one of those nights where he could've given up 6 or 7 runs thanks to 15 runs in the first 6 innings by Minnesota's offense. It's good to see Silva put together a decent start. The Twins need to shore up the bottom half of the rotation if they have any chance of finding themselves in the playoffs this fall.