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This is shades of the bad Cotts right now. He's putting himself in some real tough situations cause of his control.

Thomas is really struggling against the good slider/curveball. He has to know no one in their right mind would throw him a fastball.

Twins-KC in a battle of bullpens definitely favors the Twins. With Affeldt and Macdougal pitching already, Sisco is the lone solid KC reliever left. Twins have used Nathan and Rincon already.

Need to avoid pulling off the forkball into a DP here. I have a feeling we might see another double steal attempt.

Perfect opportunity for a hit-and-run here. Has any hitter ever had worst defense played against him than Ozuna? You have to credit his hustle though.

Good job by Garcia there pitching out of it. Cotts will likely be in to start the 7th. Lets continue to get runners on base, and try and give our bullpen some insurance.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 08:44 PM) Was someone saying yesterday that Rowand doesn't have a good throwing arm? That may be 2 runs he's saved today with great throws. I did yesterday, and until today, he hadn't showed much of an arm at all this season. He's done a better job getting in position today than he had been doing. It was a good throw, but I've never seen an announcer blow his wad like Hawk did for a throw from very shallow CF before when the runner wasn't tagging.

Too bad Scutaro wasn't trying to score on that play. Big out in this game here. Kendall has been finding every hole this series.

Garcia about to give that run right back to the A's. That should not have been a triple, our outfield took forever to get to that ball.

Anyone else think we're going to have a situation where Rowand plays vs LHP, and sits vs RHP?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 08:34 PM) 2 hits today for Konerko, that's one dramatic improvement. Can anyone remember the last time Paulie hit a home run? I serioulsy can't BOOM! I think he hit one in Detroit in the 2nd game.

Way to go Carl! Finally, someone on our team who got aggressive with the advantage in the count. You could see him waiting to swing out of his ass there.

2-0 count, and Frank takes a get me over fastball for a strike...and then swings at a nasty forkball. Not quite sure I like that way of thinking with the way he hits now. If Frank is going to try and hit for power every AB, he should be working the count in order to get that 2-0 fastball.

Hey hey! First time all series we shut them down after we scored.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 08:24 PM) I think you are exactly right in the analysis. Freddie has great stuff and is most effective when using the fastball and coming back with a curve or sinker. He satrts to rely on slow stuff and gets hammered. It's amazing to me how infrequently Garcia throws his fastball by hitters with 2 strikes. He always tries to get hitters out with an offspeed pitch, but the other hitters are looking for those pitches. He has a very good tailing fastball he can use inside against lefty hitters, but rarely uses it.

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 08:21 PM) SWEENEY HRS 2-2 Awesome. That guy has been on fire vs Twins this series.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 08:18 PM) I get a bit tired of Freddies inconsistency. He can be great for several games and then it's like he just doesn't shw the effort. 4 runs in 4 innings today plus 2 HR's allowed is not what we need against Oakland. The guy has so much talent he should be blowing these guys away. Garcia always struggles when he relies on his offspeed pitches too much. This is vintage April/May Garcia from this year, where every time he got hurt, it was on an offspeed pitch.

Another blown opportunity there to actually score more than one run. Wonder how long it will take for Garcia to allow a run this inning?

That's just awful. Our guys seem to try and do too much when we get the bases loaded.

About time we catch a gift from the A's. Ozuna's definitely not the person we want up in a sac fly situation.

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 08:11 PM) He's hitting like .275... At worst he's an average offensive MLB player... .715 OPS with 33 RBI playing the entire first half of the season for an outfielder is nothing special at all.

Not f***ing once have we held them scoreless after we scored. Garcia looks like he just got burned on another awful changeup. Stop throwing that f***ing pitch!

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 08:06 PM) He is flying out too quick trying to pull the ball. I think this homerun talk has gotten into his head, and he is trying to hit more homeruns. Considering he's not coming close to hitting homers, something needs to be done. All the progress he made at the plate last year has diminished, and he's now a below average offensive MLB player.

KC lines into a double play to end the 8th inning. 2-1, going to top of 9th.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 10, 2005 -> 08:04 PM) Ever since Arow got into this funk, the one thing i've noticed is that he has been over the top of almost everything other than the really high stuff. It's like he just can't get his bat to go down. He's been fouling off a ton of pitches to the right side. His numbers against RHP are really poor this season. At least he's been clutch.