After sustaining offensive production over the past 2 series, the Twins could not get anything going at all against White Sox starter Gavin Floyd, and lost 7-1.
The Twins did not even get a hit until Joe Mauer had double with one out in the top of the 9th, as they had been stymied by Floyd up until that point. However, there were able to score a run in the 4th, when after Joe Mauer walked and was moved over to 3rd, Jason Kubel hit a sacrifice fly to bring him home. The team was only able to muster 3 walks and 1 hit, all of which belonged to Mauer except for 1 walk, which went to Brendan Harris.
Twins starter Nick Blackburn did not have a very good outing, giving up 4 runs, 3 earned, on 6 hits, including a solo shot to Jermaine Dye. Relievers Jesse Crain and Bobby Korecky didn’t do much better in their innings of work, the former giving up 2 runs and the latter 1. Blackburn has not been able to string together 2 straight solid starts as he has been uneven so far. However, he is a rookie and this is to be expected, but there’s no doubt who will be able be more consistent in the future.
Well the good fortune of the winning streak had to come to an end. Even though getting only 1 hit and 1 run is disappointing, the only thing that can really be done is to try to hit better tomorrow. What will truly test this team is if they can shake off this loss and continue keeping their recent success going, avoiding bottoming out.
