Want to note that we have reached the fallow season of the WMNSS, where only two-to-three teams will appear on any given week.
#-1: Lynx (Last Week: -1). In the only game of the screening week, the Lynx remain undefeated and the only undefeated team in the WNBA by throttling the Washington Mystics Friday by 25. But with that victory comes this fact that struck me dumb on the ass: Lindsey Whalen now becomes the winningest player in league history. She passes Swin Cash (someone I follow on Twitter) with 295 wins. That is really, really crazy!
I still think this team is on the wrong side of Father Time, but they're not showing it yet. And they probably won't show it this week, as they travel to Dallas Sunday and host Connecticut Saturday.
#-2: Twins (Last Week: -3). I believe that the Twins are back in first place in the American League Central Division as of right now. And this road trip has been, overall, good. Sunday they squeezed past the Angels, 3-2, to win three-out-of-four games. They then lost a three-game series in Seattle mostly because Brandon Kintzler chocked on a one-run lead in the bottom of the ninth and lost Wednesday's middle game, 6-5. And they will be going for a sweep at San Francisco today/Sunday.
Pitching has to be a huge difference between last year and this. With his 4-0 shutout of The Bastard New York Giants Friday, I saw one tweet that said that Ervin Santana accounted for 23% of Major League Baseball's Complete-Game Shutouts (at least as of end of Friday). On Saturday, Jose Berrios once again lasted half as long (5 1/3 innings) but burned twice as bright while doing it (eight Strikeouts) as Kintzler shut the door on a 3-2 win. Lineup has turned around, too, with Miguel Sano, the A.L.'s leading vote-getter so far for Third Base, finally getting into a groove.
Hot take that I may expound on later: Terry Ryan actually did a good job redeveloping this organization, and was fired way too quickly.
After finishing a long road trip in the Bay, they will begin an extended homestand starting Monday, where they host the Mariners for four. They will then play a four-game series vs. Cleveland over three days; the two clubs will squeeze in a doubleheader to make up for the postponed contest on April 19.
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