Twins at Cleveland. Twins 10, Cleveland 6

Well, our pitching staff didn’t totally melt down today—in fact, if you don’t count the ninth inning, it was a veritable masterpiece compared to the rest of the season.

Of course, ninth innings do count. Joe Nathan, who appears to be our closer, gave up three runs in the bottom of the ninth. That’s two hits, two walks, one homer, and three runs. Maybe Eddie will come back? But he did let Juan Rincon get a save, which was generous. That’s the first for the Twins this year.

As for Silva, it seems he can pitch really well for five innings, and then really, really, badly after that—which is fine now that we have this man. What, us worry?

Not that I really know what happened in the game. Like the rest of the metro area, Batgirl is without TV coverage of the Twins. I hear Sen. Dayton is on the case. I mean, really, if he can befriend the giant space man certainly he can solve the Victory sports impasse.

Random thoughts:

Henry Blanco, the world’s greatest .219 hitter, is clearly a hitting-machine, but he really needs to remember he’s a catcher. We don’t try to stretch doubles into triples and we don’t steal second base. Aggressive play is one thing, mad hubris another. Also, he almost got hurt in the eighth inning. Dear Henry, please be very, very, very careful with yourself. Stretch well. Get a lot of sleep. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. Thank you.

No one loves the Dazzle-man more than Batgirl (except Batgirl’s mother, but that’s another story) but when he does the play-by-play he needs to learn to change his intonation when we get hits and score runs. This ain’t golf. Show a little life, Big Guy.

Which ‘CCO commercial is going to drive Batgirl mad first? One of the jewelry commercials? The e-Harmony one? The Rainbow foods “songs”? Only time will tell. Stay tuned!

Posted by Batgirl at April 14, 2004 09:08 PM