Minnesota at Toronto. Minnesota 9, Blue Jays 5.

Coming in to the game today, the Twins had 36 homers in 36 games. Batgirl does not excel in math, but she's pretty sure that that's one homer per game—which seemed pretty respectable, honestly, for a BALCO-free team. Today, thanks to Jacque Jones, Torii Hunter, and Lew Ford, we raised our average to a towering 1.054 dingers per game. Take that, Yankees.

It was a good game for us to win, not just because of yesterday's wee rout. Last time Ted Lilly and Brad Radke faced each other Lilly shut down the Twins while the Blue Jays had their way with Radke—all in front of Batgirl who went to the game. But that was the old Radke, April's Radke, as opposed to the May version, who kicks serious buttocks. Meanwhile, Ford and Hunter had their way with two different Lilly pitches, giving the Twins a 5-2 lead going into the 7th…

…which wasn't the best inning ever for the Twins. Radke gave up a single, then an RBI double. JC came in and promptly gave up another double and a walk. A bunt, intentional walk, and Rivas-miscue later, the game was tied…

…until the ninth inning, when Hunter doubled and Jacque Jones hit a ball to Saskatchewan, and then Ford, Cuddy, and Ryan did that thing they do, and suddenly we had a pretty nice lead again, and we wouldn't even require the services of last week's co-American League Player of the Week, Joe Nathan…

…probably. Things got a mite worrisome again in the bottom of the ninth. Juan Rincon walked the first batter, struck out the second, and walked the third, risking both the game and life and limb, until Aaron Fultz came in and got Twin killer Carlos Delgado on one pitch…

…making the Twins winners of six of their last seven, and 2.5 games in first place, and, more importantly avenging the loss of their dignity in front of Batgirl. They must feel very good tonight.

Posted by Batgirl at May 17, 2004 09:41 PM