Pennant Race

They used to call it a pennant race. Now I guess it's just a race for the division championship. Pretty long hall of 162 games, just to get to play 4 or 7 more. But I do remember the 1987 Twins who could not win on the road to save their lives, until they went to Detroit in October. But then they could not win a Series game on the road either, but they didn't need to do so. It seems as though every team has trouble now with middle relief. While Bert degrades the starters for only pitching 6 or 7 innings every 5 days, we hear about how the bullpen is "overworked" when they are asked to pitch one inning maybe 4 days a week. I don't know. But it seems that if the relief pitchers were better, they would be starters. (Save for the closers). But Good Luck Twins, you're going to need it. A lot of road games on the schedule for the next month. I think they need to be plus .500 to stay in the race.