Game #10: A's 2, Twins 8

April 13, 2006 | A's @ Minnesota

Maybe I should switch and become a football fan instead. I'm too emotional to be a baseball fan. There are too many games. Even the players pace themselves, they forget what happened the day before, they live one game at a time, one at-bat at a time, one pitch at a time. The law of averages comes into play throughout a 162-game season. So you simply can't put too much emotion into one game.

Those pesky Twins. I can't fault them. They simply played better ball. They put the ball into play, they got on base, they scored. What can you do?

• Blanton simply got lit up. He gave up 11 hits. I didn't see any visuals for this game so I wonder if it was like Haren's start the other day where no matter where the ball was hit, there wasn't an Athletic near enough to catch it.
• Witasick gave up a HR to Cuddyer. This is the first time the A's bullpen has given up a run since the season started.
• Dan Johnson struck out to end the game just like yesterday. He's 0-26 now. I can't imagine what kind of pressure it must've been. Though today wasn't as bad as yesterday. Overcoming a six-run deficit with two outs in the 9th is kinda unlikely.
• Crosby is a player who I never think of as clutch. I guess I better learn how to calculate stats or at least look them up on my own, but whenever he's at at the plate, runners are on base, and we really want him to do something, he can't.

(Game experience: My transistor radio doesn't have reception at the office. Sad. I checked Gameday when I could.)

A's record: 5-5 | streak: L-3 | well-A-meter: 2