At least it was quick.
That’s about the best thing you can say about the two-game sweep the Minnesota Twins completed against the White Sox today at Target Field. The two games combined took a tidy 4:15, or about the same as seven innings of an average Yankees/Red Sox game.
The Sox are now 0-4 this season against the last-place, injury-depleted Twins, and have scored only three runs in 36 total innings. Hard to explain that. Going back to last season, the Sox have lost seven straight against the Twins. The less said about that the better, as sports talk radio will be filled with all the usual cliches.
Up next is the Sox first trip to a National League park for the season, as they face off with the surprising Arizona Diamondbacks for three games in Phoenix. Two interesting things about tomorrow night’s game:
First of all, the pitching match up is Edwin Jackson vs. Daniel Hudson. That speaks for itself.
Secondly, the Sox will have to find a place for Adam Dunn. He hasn’t exactly been tearing the cover off the ball, but Dunn has gone 5-17 (.294) with 2 HRs, 6 RBIs, 5 BBs and “only” 4 Ks in his six games since returning from last week’s benching. Those number are good enough to be in the line up every day, especially this line up.
Problem is, with no DH, the only place to play Dunn would be at first base… at the expense of the team’s best hitter. He could play left field, depending on your definition of “play”, as he has stood out there as recently as 2009 for the Nationals. Ozzie said it’s a possibility, but it seems unlikely. So that means one of two things will happen:
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- Paul Konerko, he of the .405 wOBA and .945 OPS, will be out of the line up or
- Dunn will be used as a late inning pinch hitter, a situation in which he is overwhelmingly likely to face a left-handed specialist reliever and fail.
That’s bad. Dunn might get one start at first base, but otherwise expect to see Ozzie insert him in the 8th inning to flail away with runners on base, a situation not suited to his strength at all. (I’d argue Dunn would be more valuable as a pinch hitter leading off a late inning, a situation in which he could draw a walk to start a rally.)
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