Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

The Comeback kids strike again!



After Mr. Innuendo hit a 3 run homer to give the Tribe a 5-2 lead, the Twinks pulled out their small ball stuff and came back to win it.



Well, small ball and the 8 walks given out by the Cleveland pitchers.



Poor studly Joe was walked 3 times, so really, tonight he was 1 for 2 with his 4th homer of the year to make it a 5-4 game.



Despite the excess of balls (get your mind out of the gutter! I mean walks!), it was a good game.



The entire line-up produced, and the defense tonight was amazing, with Casilla getting the #2 Top Play on SportsCenter and getting 2 webgems on Baseball Tonight, one for each LNP and Sexy Alexi. Maybe it's time Gogo and Alexi taught Punto the SuperSecretBFF handshake they have. Denard Span (or Spam, as he's known in our house) already knows it, and I'm pretty sure I saw Craig Monroe getting some hand action also.



But they didn't teach it too him, so Little Nicky Punto and Dr. Neau had to try and make one up on their own. It didn't look nearly as cool though.



White guys can't handshake. Or something like that.



Also, it's Jesse Crain's 27th birthday today. Yay!






As of tonight, the Twinks are 11 games above .500, have won 7 series in a row, and are only 1 game behind the White Sux.


The Pregame show today started half an hour early in honor of the troops. They showed a nice ceremony to honor everyone who has, and is serving. A saxophone quartet, the team wearing caps from the Navy, Army, Marine Corps, etc.


And then, there was a hot air ballon.


It was a nice thought, with the POW/MIA design, but did they forget the Dome has a roof?

The Tribe comes to the Dome...

...and don't really do anything.

But I didn't really expect them too. However, it was kind of a close-ish game in the first 6 innings.

And then the Twins pounded on the runs and played a bunch of small ball like they're so good at.

Even though not a lot of good stuff happened for the Team With a Racially Insensitive Name (like Grady striking out twice), there's a whole long list of Stuff That Went Right for the Twinks:

- Little Nicky Punto hit a home run!! I did not see that one coming. It was his first homer in 356 at bats.

-Gogo made that awesome catch where he smacked into the wall, caught the ball, then caught his hat behind his back. (I stayed up really late watching Baseball Tonight, ESPNews, Sportscenter and FSN Final score and poor Speedy didn't get a web gem on any of them )

-This doesn't really have anything to do with the playing, but Brian Buscher looked really tan tonight. Maybe he goes tanning on his off days?

-delMON Young hit that 3 run homer, bringing his season total up to an almighty 3.

Yes, I am a die-hard Twinkies fan, but I do like Cleveland when we're not playing them. Their whole team has really, really fun names.

-Grady Sizemore...Sizemore... with a name like that, he's a walking innuendo.

-Ryan Garko- who, at our house, is affectionately called the Garko Gecko and teased constantly about why he's playing baseball and not selling motorcycle insurance to a jellyfish.

Or however those commercials go.

-What'sHisFace Choo- We don't know his first name, but at his first at bat my dad couldn't help but to pull the classic "I Choo Choo Choose you" line.

And then he giggled.

- And of course theres Jhonny Peralta. Ja-honny Purr-AllTell Family Plan. 'Nough said.

In the pre-game show, Bert mentioned Travis Hafner was on the DL and after that I expected him to break out the North Dakota jokes, being that that's where Hafner is from, but the Blyleven left me hanging. I'm very disappointed in you Bert.

I love the Postgame show. I really do. Especially when players get pies to the face during their interview with Telly Hughes. I'm lookin at you, delMON. And to keep the creamy pie on your face during the whole interview? I love it.

Lots and lots of stuff happened in baseball today. While waiting for the Twins story on all the shows previously listed above, I got to see all the interesting bits (like, 4 times each)

-Santana has lost in his last 5 starts for the Mets. It's taking a lot of willpower to not go into a long I Told You So rant.

-Detroit lost to Seattle, of all places, and Pudge got ejected. The clip of it reminded me of the little girl I used to babysit when she didn't want to go to bed. Exact same facial expression.

-How 'bout them Rockies? They were losing 13-4 to Florida, and came back to win it 18-17. Wow.

-Pujols hit his 300th homerun tonight off the left field foul pole. Foul pole homers have got to be the best. If I were to win that contest where you tell David Ortiz where to a homer, I'd totally tell him to hit it off the right field foul pole.

Yes, I know it's not the best post, but I'm really tired, and my shoulders are the same color as radishes, and there was a lot of stuff to talk about.

Oh, by the way, Happy Independence Day!

The Very First

Well hello there, Interweb.

Long time no see, eh?

Yes, I apoligize for ignoring you, but my free time has been filled by my one true love.

I'm sorry, Interweb. I've been cheating on you.

With the Minnesota Twins.

But you have to admit, there are so many reasons to love them more then you-

1.) They're a baseball team. You're not.

2.) They're adorable. Again, you're not.

3.) You don't live at the Metrodome. So there.

4.) I'd like to see you catch a fly ball.

Yes, baseball is better then you, Interweb. You might be the internet/WorldWideWeb, but you don't run nearly as fast as Carlos Gomez, or look anywhere near as studly as Joe Mauer, or make great defensive plays like Little Nicky Punto.

So I'm leaving you. For baseball.

Cause baseball diamonds are a girls best friend.

Congratulations, reader! You have finally made it to the first post of BatKra's baseball blog! Most likely, you too, are a fan of the Minnesota Twins, and are itching to read amazing tales and tidbits about the best baseball team to ever play under a baseball colored roof.

However, if you want a blog that is pure greatness, I haven't quite reached that status yet (It's hard to do with only one-post under your belt). So you'll have to be patient with me and check back often, and forgive my rookie mistakes, just like Gardy forgives GoGo.

Hopefully, in the future, BatKra will be able to hang with the cool Twins blogs, like One Man Grand Slam, or Oh It's THOSE Girls. But for now, I'm just a rookie, waiting for the hazing to begin.