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Got to start questioning Francona. Down 3-0 and you runner gets thrown out on a ball in the dirt.

Great fight ! Ramirez, Clase, Francona and Saurbaugh thrown out. Josh Naylor on the field bear hugging Clase !

Arias looks terrible. Brian Shaw is killing us !

Frustration runneth over.

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”

-- Bob Feller

Looks like its all over but the shouting.
4 behind the Twins right now. Could be 4 1/2. Twins are just getting under way.
I've always had the idea that 5 behind by the 4th of July, the season was pretty much over.
5 behind by the 4th of August and the fat lady can sing.
it took a little over a 1/2 season to pick up 2 1/2 games on the Twins with a favorable schedule.
We have less than a 1/2 season to pick up basically 5 games with the schedule favoring the Twins and badly undermanned.
If you can't win games in this division, you got a bunch of problems.
The person I feel for the most is Jose.
This has got to be a tough pill for him to swallow.
Time to play for pride or pray that we keep within striking distance when we get back to full strength.
I think the time for another miracle season may be over.

4 homers off our only veteran starter on Saturday.
Game highlight was of course the Jose takedown of anderson

with Rocchio at 3rd base and Kyle Calhoun in his first big league start at 1st base in 10 years we witness a ridiculous pair of errors to tie the score in the 9th and set up the game winning hit. Rally bad performance all around this weekend against the WhiteFlag Sox.

Kwan LF
Gimenez 2B
Ramirez 3B
Gonzalez DH
Laureano RF
Rocchio SS
Arias 1B
B Naylor C
Straw CF

Bibee SP

They can't hit but they sure can pitch.

Williams and Bibee back to back 7 innings of shutout ball.

Last time done by two rookies was by the future-Hall of Fame pair of [are you ready?] Jeff Mutis and Albie Lopez.
So I guess future success is not guaranteed, but Bibee and Williams are a very exciting pair of starters.

2 runs in 3 games against the Jays.

The batting stench continues.

While I do not disagree seagull, the Jays scored 4 runs in those same 3 games. Last year we were healthy, and got a lot of breaks go our way. Not so much this year.

I made it the game today. Great weather and good crowd even though 1/4 were from Canada.
I haven't seen a higher strike fairly consistently called both ways. Jose Tena was a pleasant surprise.

Tena is a stud. So is Brito. So is Martinez.

Trevor was outstanding!