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Isn't Baseball Crazy?
twins-territory.com - 7/10/2008
Isn't Baseball Crazy?
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Baseball sure is a crazy game. The Twins couldn't do anything all day, but a late inning rally and Morneau's fifth hit of the day still gave them a victory.

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Babes Love Baseball — Justin Morneau (a.k.a My Canadian Crusher) matched a career high Thursday afternoon by going 5-for-5 with a walk to aid in the Minnesota Twins come-from-behind victory over the Detroit Tigers in the first of a four-game set, halting the club's three-game skid. After crushing a 425-foot double to deep center in the eighth, a ball that may have been gone in just about any park but Comerica, Morneau lined a two-out bomb into the right-field seats in the 11th to give Minnesota a 7-5 lead. The extra-inning heroics, made possible by Todd Jones' mustache, came after the closer failed to convert a save for just the second ...

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