Embarrassing Loss

Garza pitched the best game of his career... at the major league level. And what do the Twins do for him in return? They hack away at a slop-balling lefty who hardly had to work to get the Twins out. It was hard to watch.

Redman never threw a pitch over 85 mph yet somehow the Twins could not hit anything hard off of him. He walked none and only struck out 3 and allowed only 5 hits in his shutout.

Redman has an ERA of 5.47. His DIPS isn't much better at 5.18. He is not a good pitcher.

There is some talk that the Twins are not as good against lefties since they are only 25-25 against them. They hit .289/.348/.433 with an OPS of .781. But against righties they are .287/.349/.427 with an OPS of .776.

There are virtually equally as good aginst both pitchers. Facing a lefty is no excuse. Losing 2-0 to KC is unexcusable.