The Twins are fed up with two-game series. Hopefully, they are fed up with losing.

They made mistakes across the board this week in losing three of four games.

Tuesday: Three errors.  Michael Cuddyer dives for a ball, misses it and watches it become a triple. Alexi Casilla doesn’t throw home when he should.

Wednesday: Kevin Slowey got off to a slow start. Craig Breslow gave up a homer on his first pitch of the fourth. Nick Punto falls for the fake-throw-to-third-then-turn-to-first play. “Baseball 101.” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. But THEN Carlos Gomez tries to score instead of realizing that no one is at first and Nicky is going to be safe and gets tagged upside the head.

Thursday: Not a total disaster. The Twins hit some balls right at people. They actually were 4-for-8 with runners in scoring position. But someone needed to come up with a key hit.

“You can’t wish runs in. We have to hit them in,” Gardenhire said.

Glen Perkins the homers to Melvin Mora and Aubrey Huff were two pitches he’d like to have back. He said he tried back-to-back change ups on Mora. “I think he was looking for that second one,” Perkins said. He said he couldn’t get his slider over for strikes against Aubrey Huff, so Huff eliminated that pitch and hammered a sinker.

Perk did shake off the four runs he gave up and retired seven of nine hitters in the middle innings.

Jose Mijares needed to finish off hitters, especially when he had Montanez down 0-2 in the eighth. 

Let’s see, offense, defense, baserunning, starting pitching, relief pitching. That about covers every area of baseball this week.

Outfielder Michael Cuddyer was asked if they think about where they are at in the standings.

“You can’t get caught up in the standings in May,” he said. “You have to play better baseball, is what we have to do.”

Some numbers:

The Twins have tied the season high with a three-game losing streak.

They are homerless in five straight games.

They are 3-5-2 in series

They are 3-8 against the AL East

They are 0-3 on Thursdays

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