Professor Schaff beat me to the punch. Back in April he and I watched the White Sox clobber the Twins in Cellular One Park. Jon made the perfectly accurate statement, at that moment, that the Twins were an altogether mediocre team. In one of the restrooms a fellow walked in just behind me with a Twins cap on. The room full of relievers razzed him mercilously. I though it prudent not to declare a position.
Tonight the Twins beat the Royals 8 to 1 on a fine performance by Boof Bonser. It isn't often that Joe Nathan is called in to close with a score like that. Oh, and Torii Hunter knocked out his 30th home run. Meanwhile in Cleveland the Indians beat the living snot out of the White Sox, 14 to 1. Two to one would have been fine, but there is no substitute for humiliation. The Sox managed to make two errors in one play in the fifth. And this is icing on the cake:
Before the game, Guillen lamented Chicago's lack of fundamentals as one of the biggest reasons the White Sox might not make the playoffs. And in the first, a blown play at the plate led to Cleveland scoring three unearned runs.
With one out, Michaels singled and went to third on Martinez's base hit. Garko followed with a routine grounder to third baseman Joe Crede, who threw home in plenty of time to get Michaels.
However, catcher A.J. Pierzynski let the ball pop out of his glove. The error was then compounded when Choo's hard grounder toward right got past second baseman Tadahito Iguchi, scoring Martinez.
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