Ho hum. The 8-1 final score doesn’t look like too frustrating of a game. That looks like one that you laugh and say nothing went our way. But for seven and a half innings, this game could have gone either way. But the Twins executed when they needed to and the Cubs didn’t. This is one of those games that gets labeled with things like because baseball. There are more than a handful of games that, no matter how well you know baseball, just don’t go the way you expect.
The Twins executed more like the playoff team of last year than the disappointing team that their SBN Twins correspondent told Al about for the series preview.