Twins Territory - Game 19: Twins 2, Indians 1 (10)

The Twins picked up their first walk-off victory of the season, beating the Cleveland Indians in the bottom half of the tenth for the series win, 2-1. With the win, the Twins are now 9-10 overall on the season and will now head west to play the Oakland A's and Texas Rangers this upcoming week.

Scott Baker took the mound having just one problem so far this season -- the longball. Baker got that under control in the win, allowing no homeruns and just one run overall. Baker's final line was seven innings, five hits, one run and a season high eight strikeouts. The offense for the Twins was quiet however, and Baker received a no-decision. He has a 3.51 ERA after the outing.

The bullpen picked up where Baker left off, pitching three solid innings after his exit. Dennys Reyes was on for the second straight day and allowed a hit and no runs in his lone inning of work. Neshek pitched the ninth and walked a hitter but went through the inning with no damage done. The tenth inning and the win went to Matt Guerrier and he pitched a one-two-three inning.

Offensively, the Twins collected elven hits on the day, but needed a walk-off run to take the win. The big hitters were numbers two, three and four, as all of the run production came from them. Brendan Harris put the Twins on the board in the third with a solo homerun, his first of the season. Overall, Harris went 3-5, Kubel went 2-4 and Morneau went 2-5. The big hit came from the bat of Justin Morneau in the bottom half of the tenth. With runners on the corners, Morneau singled to right to pick up the game winning RBI. Other players to receive hits were Nick Punto (two hits), Brian Buscher and Mike Redmond.

Box Score

Player of the Game:

Justin Morneu and Scott Baker:

Today there are two players of the game. Morneau delivered the game-winning hit, so it's only right that he be one of them. On the other hand, Scott Baker turned in a solid pitching performance when the offense needed it and kept the Twins in the game. Honorable mention goes to Brendan Harris who finally put another Twin on the homerun charts.

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Gomez
written by MorneauMVP, April 21, 2008

I think you should mention the Gomez catch which is the best catch by a CF I have seen now for a while...

also, lets see if you notice the problem in this statement:

"Offensively, the Twins collected elven hits"

Great Work TT!!!

Dang...
written by Twins Territory, April 21, 2008

How does my spell check not catch that? I read through it, but must have done it a little fast.

Also, I agree, I dropped the ball on the Gomez catch. That was amazing and a game-saver for sure.

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