The latest walk-fest by the Twins pitching staff on Tuesday now has them more than comfortably on pace to obliterate records for being the walkiest (yes, I made that up) pitching staff in Twins history.
Twins pitchers walked nine on Tuesday and, as a unit have walked 126 batters in 24 innings.
One hundred twenty six. Holy free pass, Batman!
That's an average of 5.25 walks a game. That's a pace for 850 for the season. The club record for crimes committed on a pitching mound is held by the 1982 Twins, who walked 643 batters.
That's nothing compared to what these Twins are doing. That 1982 team, by the way, lost 102 games.
``There is very little that my pitching coach can do for them or I can do for them," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. ``They have to throw the ball over. They have to attack the strike zone and throw the ball over."
They can wait all they want for Saint Joe, the Hall of Fame slugger and others to come back. They can wait all they want for Justin Morneau to find his mojo.
This team has NO CHANCE if the pitching staff keeps issuing free passes. None.
