Finally

Finally, the Twins win in Detroit. It was beginning to seem impossible. But the pulled it out in exciting fashion. Radke really pitched well. His change-up really had most of the hitters fooled.

He was really helped by bad baserunning/managing in the 4th inning. Why do you send Ordonez home on that play? It didn’t even take a great throw to get the out. Tyner was charging in to make the catch, so he had his momentum going towards home. Then Ordonez tagged and looked back as he started running home!!! Result, out by five feet.

Thank you, Magglio.

It was nice to see the Twins be more patient during the last 2 games against Rodney and Zumaya. It didn’t pay of on Monday but it helped get 1 run in the win on Tuesday. The Twins barely averaged 2 pitches per plate appearance against these 2 wild throwers. That was inexcusable last weekend in the Dome. The last 2 days they have been more patient with 4 pitches per plate appearance, its nice to see some improvement.

Its not that I want the Twins to just wait to walk, but don't swing a bad pitches or pitcher's pitches.

The White Sox just won and Boston lost. The wild card standings are:

Chi -
Min .5 GB
Bos 1 GB