Minnesota Twins vs Milwaukee Brewers Live Streaming
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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As one of the league’s most successful interleague teams in recent seasons, the Minnesota Twins haven’t lost three straight against the NL in more than three years. It’s been much longer since they’ve been swept by an NL club. The Twins will try to avoid their first interleague sweep since 2001 when they close a three-game set against the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday. From 2001-09, Minnesota boasted a major league-best 101-61 interleague record. It’s had some trouble this year, though, dropping to 7-7 after a 5-3 loss to Milwaukee on Wednesday. The Twins, who lost the series opener 7-5, are now trying to avoid losing three straight against the NL for the first time since May 20-June 9, 2007, and their first three-game interleague sweep since July 15-17, 2001, at St. Louis. While Minnesota is 9-11 in June, it still has a 1 1/2-game AL Central lead over second-place Detroit. Perhaps no one exemplifies Minnesota’s struggles in June more than Nick Blackburn, who has a 12.00 ERA this month and is coming off the second-shortest start of his career.
Blackburn gave up eight runs and six hits in 1 2-3 innings of a 9-5 loss to the Phillies on Friday. Minnesota is 0-4 in the right-hander’s starts this month, in which he’s pitched a total of 15 innings. Blackburn pitched one of his better games against the Brewers on May 21, allowing three runs and seven hits in 7 1-3 innings of a 15-3 home win. Brewers slugger Ryan Braun is 6 for 10 with three doubles off Blackburn. The left fielder was 0 for 4 Wednesday after hitting .389 the previous nine games, although he hit into a fielder’s choice in the seventh to score Rickie Weeks, giving Milwaukee a 4-2 lead. The Brewers, who have already clinched the season series against Minnesota after losing the previous five between these teams, will try to match their longest winning streak of the season - set April 18-22 - when they go for a fourth straight victory Thursday.
