Jim Souhan pretty much nailed it.
And you know all of this, but it bears repeating nonetheless:
The Twins have now won fourteen out of fifteen, and six straight. Nine straight wins at home. Six straight series wins. 12-2 in interleague play.
Francisco Liriano is 8-1, with four straight wins.
Joe Mauer’s five hits last night –and nine in the last two games– raised his Major League best batting average to .389 and gave him one hundred hits in sixty-eight games.
Meanwhile, the five teams in the mighty AL Central have won seventeen straight games, and all three clubs at the top of the division are 10-1 in their last eleven.
It would be discouraging if it wasn’t so damn amazing and so much fun to watch.
Also, how do you explain the Tigers, who limped in at 71-91 in 2005? They’re 53-25 so far in 2006, and have won fifteen of their last seventeen. Kenny Rogers, who gave the Twins the same sort of boost in 2003, is 10-3 with a 3.44 ERA. The guy has now won at least ten games in a season fourteen times in his career.
All five of Detroit’s starting pitchers have ERAs under four, and the team has six guys on a pace to hit at least twenty homeruns.
Like I said, and like people all over the place are saying, it’s absolutely amazing.
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