Twins: The Team to Sweep.

So on Saturday night it was a chance for the Minnesota Twins to keep their playoff hopes alive against the New York Yankees and in this game it was either win or go home. The Twins would send out young Brain Desnsing who is great pitching to lefty's as for the Yankees they would send out young Phil Hughes who was making his first postseason start and he had it working all night long. As for Desnsing well he didn’t shine that good, already down 2-0 Yankees DH Marcus Thames would hit a 2 run home run in the 4th inning to put the Yanks up 4-0. Duensing would only last 3.1 innings pitched, gave up 7 hits, 5 earn runs, 1 strikeout, and threw 58 pitches. Phil Hughes on the other hand would last 7 strong innings, gave up 4 hits, 0 earn runs, 6 strikeouts, threw 99 pitches. Later in the 7th inning Nick Swisher would add the icing to the cake and hit a solo home run to make it a 6-0 ball game and that would be it.


The Yankees would win the ALDS and sweep the Twins for the second straight year by a score of 6-1. The Yankees won this division series as the wild card team but they played this series like the division winners and they are the first team to move on the ALCS (American League Championship Series). They will either the Tampa Bay Rays or the Texas Rangers, Rangers lead that series 2-1. So this series was expected so much more and for this series to at least go 4 or 5 games but only went 3 games once again. The Yanks had another clean sweep and almost everyone thought the Twins would play the Yankees better since last year they were out in the first 3 games but it looked like history would repeat itself. Just seems like the Yankees have the Twins number and the Twins just cannot get pass the Yankees no matter how better they get.


The Twins had a great 2010 season winning the Central Division by 6 games over the White Sox with a 94-68 record. At one point of the year the Twins found themselves 3.5 games out of first but fought back and came back to win their division and what a great season they had without their star first baseman Justin Morneau and closer Joe Nathan. Also the Twins didn't have a 100% Joe Mauer and they still overcame a lot of flows. So Twins fans you'll have to wait till next year, but luck in the 2011 season.