Twins Territory - Game 2: Los Angeles Angels

One night after picking up their first win of the season, the Twins were handed their first defeat by a score of 9-1. Boof Bonser started off slow, and the Twins fell behind early. They never really got going, and no matter how well Boof would have pitched, it would have been tough to win with the offensive production.

Boof Bonser lost somewhere near thirty pounds in hopes that he'd be able to go deeper into games. In his first appearance, Bonser went six innings and was decent overall. In his six innings, Bonser allowed 8 hits, 4 runs (3 earned) and struck out 4. It was a decent outing, but he still has a lot to improve on after he left a lot of balls up in the zone early on.

The bullpen didn't keep the Twins close after Bonser left. Jesse Crain was in for the first time in nearly a full year, and was decent. Crain went two-thirds of an inning and allowed a hit, a walk and a run which was allowed by Reyes who relieved Crain. After Reyes came in and allowed a hit, Brian Bass was brought in to make his debut. Bass went 1.1 innings and allowed 3 hits, 2 runs and a walk. It was far from a good outing for Bass, but not terrible for his first. Rincon pitched the final inning, and in his first time out this season, got hit hard. His final line was 1 inning, 2 hits, 1 walk and 2 runs.

Offensively, it was a bad night for the Twins. Delmon Young collected multiple hits for the second day in a row. Young went 3-4 on the night, and now has five hits in just two games. Other than Young, there weren't a lot of hits, in fact, the Twins recorded just five others. Carlos Gomez collected another hit along with Michael Cuddyer, Jason Kubel, Joe Mauer and Adam Everett. Justin Morneau went 0-4 on the night, as is now the only starter hitless on the season.

For more stats, make sure to check out the Box Score and the FanGraph.

The Twins minor league affiliates have announced their rosters for the most part, and the Organization Board has been updated from AA to the Majors. As other rosters are decided, we'll try to get the rest up by the end of the week.

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Tough loss
written by Twins MVB, April 01, 2008

Not as easy to watch as Monday night. Bonser started shaky and everyone in the bullpen not named pat and joe looked awful. we'll see what we can do tomorrow against the lefty, saunders.

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