The Minnesota Twins took two out of three games against the Oakland Athletics during their mid week series. The Twins finished up the series with a 3-1 victory on Wednesday afternoon as they scored single runs in the first, third, and sixth innings off of Dallas Braden.

Mike Redmond led the Twins at the plate as he had rbi singles in the third and sixth innings to finish the game with two rbi. The other rbi for the Twins came off the bat of Justin Morneau who singled in the Twins first run in the first inning.

Francisco Liriano notched his fourth win of the season and is now 4-3. Liriano tossed five innings and gave up five hits and one run while walking three and strikingout five others. Boof Bonser, Jesse Crain, and Joe Nathan all did a good job out of the bullpen. Nathan recorded his 34th save of the season.

Now lets all hope that the White Sox lose today! - Twins Baseball Blog

The MInnesota Twins were able to get a little bit of reventh on the Detroit Tigers as they beat the Tigers Tuesday evening by the score of 6-4.  At times in the game I was unsure if the Twins were going to be able to get the victory, but they showed what kind of team they really are and were able to pick up the win.

Scott Baker pickd up the victory and is now 5-2 on the season.  Baker tossed six innings and gave up seven hits and three runs.  It was a quality outing for Baker and that is all the Twins were asking out of him.  Brian Bass gave up on run as he pitched after Baker exited the game.  Joe Nathan recorded his 23rd save in the game as well.

The big hit for the Twins came off the bat of Craig Monroe who hit a three run home run in the fourth inning.  Mike Redmond was right behind Monroe as he finished the game with two rbi.  Alexi Casilla also chipped in with one rbi.

The Twins and Tigers will now play an afternoon game on Wednesday to see who win the three game series.  Twins Blog

The Minnesota Twins got their butts whooped by the Oakland Athletics as the two teams played Thursday afternoon.  On a day where starting pitcher Francisco Liriano gave up six runs and didn’t even make it out of the first inning, the Twins were pretty much doomed from the start.

Liriano’s six runs in the first inning but the Twins in a huge hole that they were not able to come out of.  Following Liriano, Brian Bass gave up four more runs (three earned) in 3.1 innings.  Jesse Crain also gave up an earned run in one inning of action.

Carlos Gomez did put the Twins on the board first with a solo home run in the first inning.  The Twins did not score their second run of the game until the fifth inning when Brian Buscher singled in Mike Redmond.

The Twins were hoping to get back to .500 but now they are two games under .500 with a 10-12 record.

Twins Blog