The starters continue to struggle for the Twins, but the bullpen continues to shine. Hernandez wasn't horrible in his first start for the Twins and he did last five innings. At this point giving up on three runs in five innings is starting to look like a good outing for a Twins pitcher. The bullpen managed four more scoreless innings.
At times it seems that the Twins are more lucky than good. Justin Morneau's pop fly, which should have been an easy third out, was lost in the sun and resulted with him getting credit for a two run double instead. Things like that NEVER happened to the team last year. Maybe this year will be different.
The best part is that the Twins have now won their first two series of the year. And those series were against two very good ball clubs. I'll take the wins any way we can get them, but you KNOW you're not playing well when your whole team only has FOUR hits.
Hicks only has two hits for the Twins all year, but both have produced RBI. Yesterday's single drove in the eventual game winner. I'm still waiting for both he and Mauer to start hitting up to expectations.
Still a 4-2 record is nothing to sneeze at. We all know this could/should come tumbling down at any moment, but all it takes is for a couple of starters to consistently start pitching well and before you know it, the whole ball club looks better.
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