Damnit, what a bad night for a loss. The Twins fell to the Indians 3-1 on Monday night when they could have picked up a full game on the Chicago White Sox in the standings. Instead the Twins are still 1.5 games behind the Sox in the division.

Kevin Slowey fell to 12-10 on the year as he took the loss on Monday night. Slowey threw six innings but gave up seven hits and all three runs that the Indians scored. Slowey gave up two home runs and that counted for all three of the Indians runs. Two bad pitches and that was the game pretty much.

The one run that Twins did get came in the in the ninth inning when Joe Mauer hit a solo home run. It was just the ninth home run for Mauer on the season. The struck out seven times and left 11 runners on base in the game. Now that is a big letdown if there ever was one in my opinion.

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