Maybe Frank McCourt Should File For Bankruptcy Every Day

After declaring for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (leading to a great personalized jersey), the Dodgers took all of their money woes out on the Twins, scoring 15 runs on 24 hits while the Twins were kept in check. And by kept in check, I mean shutout.

The Dodger attack was lead by four-hit games from Matt Kemp, Tony Gwynn Jr, and Trent Oeltjen with Kemp, Oeltjen, and Casey Blake adding home runs. Every Dodger starter had a multi-hit game save for Andre Ethier and Chad Billingsley pitched 6 shutout innings before three perfect frames from the bullpen closed out the game. Of the 9 outs recorded by the bullpen, 7 of them came via strikeout.

Things were not nearly so pretty for Nick Blackburn and his contact-oriented ways. Blackburn gave up half of the Dodgers hits in 4.1 innings while seeing seven earned runs (eight total) added to his ledger. He would soon give way to a bullpen that was just as feeble, but by that point the game was already lost.

After opening June on a 15-3 run, the Twins looked like they may just have the ability to pull off an unlikely comeback in the AL Central. But while plenty of teams go through cold streaks, the Twins can ill afford this current stretch of six consecutive losses. These aren’t tough luck defeats either, getting outscored 43-8 in that span. The Twins real battle will be to avoid the cellar which they currently occupy.