At Night At The Guthrie (And Not The Theatre…)

Why do the Orioles find so much pleasure in ending our streaks?! I know that our little five-game winning streak doesn’t compare to this scale, but in early June of 1991 the Twins were riding a 15-game winning streak (the longest in team history) into the old Memorial Stadium. The Twins were up 5-3 going into the bottom of the ninth, only to see Rick Aguilera blow the save and the streak

Tonight, the O’s again broke up a Twins’ streak when Jeremy Guthrie shut down our bats and Nick Blackburn was shaky again. Blackie pitched just well enough to keep us in the game, but the bats just couldn’t get going.

Back in that ’91 season after the winning streak was destroyed, the Twins recovered to win five more in a row. I’m hoping this ’09 bunch can do the same, starting with the Rangers on Friday.

Preview (63-64, T-2nd w/CWS, 4.5 GB DET): Tommy Hunter (6-2, 2.85) vs. Brian Duensing (1-1, 4.91).