Nice defense

Twins have earned a split so far. After booting the ball around and misplaying balls and misplaying rundowns yesterday the Twins lost while Radke gave another gutty performance. I don’t think his fastball ever hit 90 and it probably averaged about 84. Yet somehow he continually got the best offense out, too bad his defense failed him.

Somehow 3 players lost a high fly in the dome in the 1st. Then Bartlett makes a great play on a ball in the hole and throws a 1 hopper to Morneau who can’t scoop it.

Later Punto lets a ball go right through his legs that led to another run. Later Punto misplays a rundown which allowed AJ to be safe at first and also allows Thome to score. That is 3 runs that should not have scored.

I hope the Twins got it out of their system.

A couple of AJ notes. Did any of you notice in the 1st inning, during the Punto at bat, he made a bunting motion before the pitch was thrown. Then Punto bunted for a hit.

Did AJ guess correctly or did he read some sign or hear something? I have never seen that before.

Also, did you see AJ touch his nose after AJ scored on the rundown. The Twins have been touching their noses after RBIs this season to indicate that you have to “smell the RBIs”.
For 1 thing AJ didn’t get an RBI. Secondly, I am starting to see why other teams don’t like him. Why would you do that? Classless