Yes, you can say that the Carlos Gomez base running mistake cost the Twins the game. Yes, you can say that the Joe Mauer fair ball that was called foul cost the Twins the game (How does that happen? It wasn’t even close and the umpire was 6 feet away slooking right at it! Seriously, look at the picture below and see for yourself!)
You can come up with any number of reasons that the Twins lost the game but it all comes down to one thing. Joe Nathan. Joe Nathan costs the Twins the game. And the shame of it all is that Joe Nathan is a huge MLB star making lots of money (the kind that play for the Yankees).
It’s not like the Yankees beat up on a low payroll guy. The guy made $11,250,000.00 this year (yes you have the number of digits to the left of the decimal point correct), and that doesn’t count whatever he received for making the All-Star team or any other performance bonuses he may have.
Let’s call it as it is, Joe Nathan makes Armando Benitez look clutch. SERIOUSLY! He puts up huge stats in the regular season. The guy is unhittable! Look at the stats, the guy matches or surpasses Mariano Rivera across the board!
Consider this, in the past 5 years Joe Nathan has an ERA well under 2.00 and a WHIP well less than 1.00!
But then there’s the post season. Did you see him hyperventilating out there on the mound? And he was eating his shirt! Don't believe me? Look at the picture! And that was before the HR to A-Rod!
Nathan has now pitched in 7 post season games. In these 7 post season games he’s pitched 7.1 innings, given up 10 Hits, 7 walks and 7 runs. He only gave up 16 runs this entire year! And that was over 70 games! And last year he only gave up 10 runs the entire year! He’s given up 7 runs in 7 games!
I know the best team won and I know it’s inevitable that they will win the series. But Nathan gets paid what he does on the Twins for one reason and one reason only; for games like that one.
What a shame for the other guys on the team playing their hearts out. He’s should give them all a portion of his salary. - Peter Costa
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