Twins - Red Sox, take four...

Tonight is the final game of a 4 game set with the BoSox, with the Twins having won two of the first three by a combined total of 2 runs. The wins sandwich a Boston homer-fest in which everyone and their dog managed to go yard against the Twins pitching. There were plenty of stunning moments in the first three games, only one of which I care to write about. The series also marked the final game for vaunted reliever, Pat Neshek, who blew out an elbow tendon. It reeks of Tommy John, but as of yet, the Twins aren't stating such.

Last night our favorite club teed off on Tim Wakefield's knuckleball to the tune of 3 dingers, one of which was off the bat of Adam Everette...he of zero power. Tonight, the Twins trot out there own 55 mph'er in Livan Hernandez, who's looking for his 6th win of the year. Livan has a tendency to give up the deep ball, which could spell disaster against the likes of messieurs Ramirez, Ortiz, and Lowell. However, whether it's due to his 20mph difference in speeds, or the fact that he creates his own gravitational pull, Livan's kept people off balance this year.

UPDATE: Livan struggled early, giving up a giant dinger to Manny in the first, but that was all that the BoSox would muster. Meanwhile, the Twins dinked and dunked their way to 7 runs. Clay Buchholz couldn't throw a fastball over for a strike, so the Twins waited on his bender and chased him out in the fifth. They wind up taking 3 of 4 from the league's best hitting team and now welcome Toronto (a team that is having serious run-scoring trouble as of late) to the dome for a few games.