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Doug Fister didn't have it, but even Cy Young award winners have days on which they don't have it. Fister allowed the Twins four runs in six innings, a bad game for him but still a good enough effort to keep any team whose lineup includes Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder, and Andy Dirks (.369) in the game.
And the hitters tried their mightiest, but three solo homers (Dirks and Fielder, and Brennan Boesch) by themselves aren't going to make it happen. When all your runs score on three solo homers, the rest of the batting order isn't contributing.
Justin Morneau hit a two-run shot for the Twins, and a young man named Babe Plouffe, who entered last night's game hitting .125 and homered, homered today and leaves town with a .145 batting average.
Fister leaves the ball park this afternoon with a 1.59 ERA and a record of no wins and two losses.
Meanwhile, across the lake in Cleveland where winning baseball is played, the Indians scored two in the 11th to defeat the Mariners 6-5.
The Tribe is 22 and 16, and leads the American League Central Division by four games over the men from Motown who, by now per the script, were to be figuring out where to put all the visiting friends and family during World Series week. And the fan wonders, as he does every year around this time, if he wouldn't have been better off starting the season rooting for, and blogging about, the Indians.
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