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Friday, August 29, 2008
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…
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1. Rich Rifkin I Posted: August 29, 2008 at 05:54 AM (#2921253)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).
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
The Twins and White Soz are baseball's great hope for a Yankees/Red Sox-less October.
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