This can be categorized as a game where timely hitting was once again a foreign art for the Yankees. Darrell Rasner clearly didn't have his best stuff yesterday but let's be honest, he kept the Yankees in the game as best as he could and the Yankees offense really looked like they left their fire in the 12th inning of the other night. Rasner gave up two quick runs in the first but looked to have settled down and didn't give up another run until the fourth though he did keep working his way into and out of trouble (he should give IPK some lessons on the latter).

The Twins scored their 4th run off of Rasner on a fluke play when Justin Morneau ripped what looked to be a double to the gap in right center. Melky chased the ball down...but then slipped on the track and ended up throwing the ball over Abreu's head when he tried to get the ball over to him. While that was going on, Morneau cleared the bases. Yeah, it was one of those days.

There was a scary play in the fifth when Bobby Abreu lined a shot right up the middle and it connected with Twins starter Nick Blackburn. Originally, it looked pretty bad as Blackburn went down like a heap...but thankfully he hopped back up after a few seconds and was able to walk off the field under his own power. On the replays, it showed that the ball didn't catch him flush but glanced off his glove and then nailed him in the nose. Still, memories of Bryce Florie certainly abounded and you could tell that Abreu was pretty shaken up about it.

In any case, the only Yankee run was a Derek Jeter homer in the fifth, which is amazing since they did pound out 7 other hits and 3 walks. They also bounced into 2 double plays so that didn't help matters and still managed to leave 8 men on base for the game. All in all, a disappointing loss but hey, you gotta lose sometime right. Let's hope the Yanks offense shows a little more fire in today's game to get back over .500 for the year.