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MN Star-Tribune: Suzuki outduels Crain in ninth for A’s

The Bay Area has greeted them with unseasonably warm temperatures—86 degrees for Thursday night’s first pitch—but with the Athletics reeling, this hardly spurred a ticket rush at McAfee Coliseum. The announced crowd of 12,357 was the smallest to watch the Twins all season, and they responded with another flat effort.

Once again, the game fell to reliever Jesse Crain, and once again the Twins came away disappointed. Kurt Suzuki drilled an RBI double to left with one out in the ninth inning, giving Oakland a 3-2 victory.
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Losing for the fifth time in six games, the Twins fell to 3-5 on the 14-game road trip, leaving them 1 1/2 games behind the White Sox in the AL Central.

Early verdict on the Twins’ extended road trip: not so good. If they keep this up, we’ll have to make them an honorary NL West team. Hey, they were an AL West team once…

NTNgod Posted: August 29, 2008 at 01:28 AM | 8 comment(s)
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1. Rich Rifkin I Posted: August 29, 2008 at 01:54 AM (#2921253)

Test.

2. JMM Posted: August 29, 2008 at 02:01 AM (#2921255)

Hey, the A's have won 5 of their 8, so reeling my ass!!

Of course, it's also 5 of their last 10, but given how useless the offense has been (the pitching's been okay most of the collapse) 5 of 8 is practically a miracle (horse neighs).

3. Shock Posted: August 29, 2008 at 02:02 AM (#2921256)

Damn, I was hoping the headline meant Suzuki was put on the mound.

4. TFTIO Posted: August 29, 2008 at 02:05 AM (#2921257)

Trust a Yalie to screw things up. There couldn't have been more than 10,000 people there, which reminded me of being in the Dome.

5. Gamingboy Posted: August 29, 2008 at 08:11 AM (#2921300)

MCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!!

6. DL from MN Posted: August 29, 2008 at 09:36 AM (#2921325)

Apparently they are selling jeans here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/It-sure-is-nice-that-Barry-Zito-has-modeling-to-;_ylt=Aq29YvU9dE1kV5LziHPg0lARvLYF?urn=mlb,104195

7. Crispix Attacks Posted: August 29, 2008 at 10:06 AM (#2921342)

Harvard can have its baseball and academics. Yale will always be first in gentlemanly club life.

8. Outman, fighter of the Hitman (jonathan) Posted: August 29, 2008 at 02:17 PM (#2921662)

Oh, now you start winning.

The Twins and White Soz are baseball's great hope for a Yankees/Red Sox-less October.

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