Twins Beat Red Sox 4-2, Kevin Slowey Picks Up Seventh Win on the Season

Tanner Thoms

May 27, 2009

For the first time since May 14, the Minnesota Twins are over .500. With a 4-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox, Minnesota has reached its 24th win.

Starting the game for the Minnesota Twins was Kevin Slowey, who went on to pick up his seventh victory of the season, as mentioned in the article title. Slowey pitched 6 innings, and only gave up two runs, and struck out five batters.

On the opposing side, Daisuke Matsuzaka started for the Red Sox, he did not have a win yet to his name. This trend continued after he gave up three runs in only five innings pitched. Daisuke is now 0-3 on the season.

Minnesota was hot from the start. In the third inning, the Twins scored three runs which put them on top of the Red sox by two. Jacoby Ellisbury scored on a sacrifice fly from Kevin Youkilis in the top of the third.

The next run game from the Red Sox. Jason Bay hit a scoring home run to center field off of Kevin Slowey. This put the Sox down by only one run.

The Twins responded in the bottom of the sixth with the bases loaded when Michael Cuddyer was hit by a pitch from Manny Delcarmen. Minnesota went up 4-2 from that point, and went on to win by that very score.

Surprisingly, Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer have very disappoint games respectively. They combined to go 2-8 with one RBI, which came from Mauer.

Minnesota's star player was Denard Span, who went 4-4, and even scored twice. He is hitting at .316 this season.

Jason Kubel also had two hits and drove in an RBI. Minnesota's third baseman, Brendan Harris, did the exact same thing.

In the ninth inning, Minnesota's closer, Joe Nathan, pitched the ninth inning and gave up no hits. He picked up his eighth save of the 2009 season.

Minnesota has won two-out-of-three games against the Red Sox in this series. They play once more tomorrow, but the Twins are guaranteed to at least split the four-game series.

The Twins play the Sox tomorrow at 1:10 ET on FSN. Minnesota's recently brought up pitcher, Anthony Swarzak, is set to take the mound against Josh Beckett. Swarzak is looking to go 2-0 on the season.

It should be a good game, and I expect Morneau and Mauer to respond with great games. Look for the Twins and Red Sox to both put a lot of runs on the board tomorrow.