Saturday, September 19, 2009

Dome Friendly



The Twins are sure going to miss playing at the Metrodome next year.
Thanks to the translucent roof, the Twins pulled off a 6-2 come from behind victory Saturday over Detroit and moved to within two games of its AL Central-leading opponent.
With a runner on in the bottom of the eighth and one out trailing 2-1, the Twins' Orlando Cabrera hit a routine fly ball to left field. Don Kelly, a rookie who had just entered the game as a defensive replacement, lost it in cumulus cloud ceiling.
After searching with his arms raised in obvious confusion, Kelly located the ball in its final 20 feet of flight, and made a desperation dive to his right.
He came up empty.
And the Twins took advantage.
By the time he recovered and relayed the ball into the infield, runners were on second and third.
After loading the bases with an intentional walk to Joe Mauer, who had delivered Minnesota's lone run of the afternoon earlier with his 28th home run, Jason Kubel hit an end of the bat flair base-hit into left field off of Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander to give Minnesota its first lead at 3-2.
Michael Cuddyer followed with an exclamation point three-run blast into left center off of newly inserted Brandon Lyon to ensure that the Twins would at least win this ever important series with Detroit.
It isn't the first time the Dome roof has come into play, but it certainly has to be one of the most timely.
And after sitting seven games back of the Tigers not two weeks ago, the Twins have climbed to within a couple games of taking over the lead in the AL Central.
These two teams play eachother five more times, including tomorrow's game and four at Comerica Park where Kelly and the Tigers should now see that this division battle will likely go down to the wire.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I guess no one is cryiing about the invincible roof now.