Resilient. The Minnesota Twins players could wear that word on their uniforms. A team that many thought would play .500 baseball or worse, and has now lost 15 of its last 25 games, finds itself 2.5 games behind Chicago in the Central Division race with the White Sox coming to the Metrodome for a three-game series starting tomorrow night.
With only six games remaining in the season for the Twins, probably nothing less than a sweep of the White Sox will keep the division title drive on track. That would leave the Twins 8-1 in the dome against the White Sox this season.
The Twins hope their strengths, pitching, defense, and timely hits, will be in place this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. The White Sox, who like the Twins have been stumbling in September losing 10 games and winning nine, will want to show their power game, 223 home runs, best in the majors.
Twins president Dave St. Peter told Sports Headliners on Friday he hopes his team can minimize White Sox power. “If we can keep the ball in the park, I like our chances a lot,” he said.
The easy guess is to write that the Twins are too far back to win, but the White Sox are playing without the injured Carlos Quentin, their best player gone for the season, and they’re not playing winning baseball. Then, too, the Twins have been surprising most everyone all season.
“It’s going to come down to pitching,” St. Peter said.