Twins 8, Brewers 7 (12 innings)

The game of the day was most definitely in Minnesota, and what a wild game it was!

Up 6-2 going into the ninth inning, the Twins failed to hold on to the lead, and they even lost it. The Brewers put together a very impressive rally to take the lead on the road, despite all of their recent on-field troubles. But you know what, their on-field troubles continued, because they lost that lead immediately in the bottom of the inning as the Twins forced extra innings. Minnesota pulled out the home win in the 12^th, after they loaded the bases with no one out. Jason Kubel hit a sacrifice fly with one out to win it for the home team.

This game featured an incredible play by Brewers RF Corey Hart, who chased down a ball and caught it on the run while slamming into the wall with 2 outs to prevent the winning run from scoring in the tenth inning. This actually brings me to my other notable item: the crowd was incredible in this game! These two are moderately close in proximity, but it must be the fact they are in different leagues that brought many Brewers fans to Minneapolis. The intensity was incredible and I found myself unable to turn the game off!

Athletics 1, Giants 0

What an absolutely awesome game by Gio Gonzalez of the A’s!

The young Oakland starter was responsible for making Saturday’s game one of the fastest interleague games in history (per my own judgement). Gio was absolutely mowing down the Giants hitters to the tune of 20 straight outs to end his day after eight innings. 20 straight outs!

So you may be thinking, what about the Giants starter, he must have been upset. Well, you betcha. Matt Cain started for the Giants and is credited with a complete game loss. Oh yeah, the only run scored in the game was an unearned run in the third inning. So basically, he didn’t do anything wrong, but he given the big L.

Mets 5, Yankees 3

This honestly might have been the most BORING Mets/Yankees game in their history. I hate living in the metropolitan area and having to hear about this LAME series.

Red Sox 5, Phillies 0

I’ll admit, I haven’t been watching Daisuke Matsuzaka’s starts too closely since his return from the DL. But I did see his last start in New York, as the Yankees nabbed five runs in the first inning off him. He did settle down, but I figured he was going to need more time to get settled back in the rotation.

Well, I guess five days later was enough for him to get settled.

Dice-K SHUT DOWN the best offense in the NL in one of the best hitter’s parks in the majors. The Phillies had no answer for Dice-K, and he even had a no-hitter into the eighth inning! Boston was making amazing plays around him all night, including Dice-K himself, as he caught a line drive shot right back at him. However, with two-outs in the eighth, Juan Castro hit a blooper into left that was just out of the reach of SS Marco Scutaro. A no-hitter against that team in that ballpark would have been truly amazing. But at least Sox fans can rest easy tonight, Dice-K may be back.

Phillies SP Roy Halladay may be looking to seek revenge on Sunday (and mimic Dice-K’s day), as he faces Boston again – as he has his entire career in Toronto in the AL East.

Nationals 7, Orioles 6

This may be the lamest interleague rivalry because of how bad these two teams are year-in and year-out, and today was no different (yes, despite the Nats being decent). Nevertheless, I was able to pull out one item from this game that drove me crazy. Luckily I’m not alone.

In the fourth inning, Orioles CF Adam Jones drove a ball to center which Nationals OF Nyjer Morgan had a chance to catch. Well, for the second time this week, Morgan screwed up and allowed an inside-the-park homerun. The other day with Angel Pagan, it was more of a bad read that led to the ITPH, but on Saturday, it was mostly mental. That’s the big issue here.

Morgan made a leap for the ball at the wall and it bounced out of his glove. He thought it bounced over the fence for a homerun, but instead, the ball landed behind him and Jones just kept rounding the bases. Oh, and not only that, but Morgan slammed his glove down in frustration after the ball popped out, instead of turning around to see if the ball was there. What a DUMMY!

Here’s a quote from Morgan and his manager. No explanations needed, they speak for themselves.

Morgan’s reaction to being booed in the outfield and in his next at-bat:

“The boo birds were out there, definitely. It was a thing where they had every opportunity to boo me.”

Nationals manager Jim Riggleman on Morgan’s rant in the outfield:

“That doesn’t excuse it — and I don’t want it to be perceived as an excuse — but it explains it. He made a human error. He didn’t not hustle. He didn’t do … a horrible thing. He made a terrible mistake, but it wasn’t malicious.”

-Chris