Yankees 5, Twins 2: When it rains, it snores

Just once, I’d like to hold up a different finger to the Yankees. (Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images) | Getty Images When a team that’s historically turned into terrified toddlers at the very name of one particular other team goes 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position, it’s not generally going to go well. Inning-by-inning notes:1: I don’t know this for sure, and I’m not going to check it, but it feels like Klobberin’ Kody Klemens hits a homerun every Friday, now.

Good for him! Although hitting one now means he can’t later (he has a quota) and he won’t be able to stave off the inevitable late-inning Yankee comeback.View LinkOr maybe not the late innings.

Trent Gisham strokes a solo dong to right. Incidentally, on both the Clemens and Grisham home runs, radio guy Kris Atteberry called them “pop ups” at first, so maybe the sightlines from the press box at Yankee Stadium are weird. Tied 1-12: Royce Lewis has a leadoff double, and the Twins follow thew sabermetric playbook to the letter and have no interest in moving him over/getting him in.

Why waste a bunt on an out when you’ve got sluggers like Victor Caratini and Tristan Gray coming up?A 1-2-3 inning for rookie Mike Paredes. I’m sure that Derek Shelton gave somebody in the media the standard speech about how he doesn’t care about the Twins’ sad history against the Yankees; how the players are different now and he doesn’t believe in curses.

I’ve heard it from Gardy and from Molitor and Rocco. They all got their butts beat by the Yankees anyways. It’s a fact of life, like ear hair increasing when you’re older.

3: A 1-2-3 for Gerrit Cole, followed by a rain delay. “Other” radio guy Dan Gladden interviews former player Terry Pendleton, who was with St. Louis when they lost to the Twins in the 1987 World Series, and with Atlanta when they lost to the Twins in 1991.

Pendleton was actually with three other World Series-losing teams; St. Louis in 1985, Atlanta in ‘92 and ‘96. Looks like Terry Pendleton was cursed.

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