Twins 5 Pirates 3

I don't know what to say about this one, it was a pretty uninspired effort from our Buccos tonight which made for a really boring night at the ballpark. I don't know if I've ever really seen a crowd as large as tonight's (30,000) so completely disinterested with a baseball game, though it really wasn't their fault. The Twins tossed a ton of mediocrity at us off the mound tonight and we couldn't do anything with it. Instead, we seemed content with three runs. That was enough to keep the game tied after Paul Maholm settled down, but not enough after our dinosaur bullpen came in in the 8th. Maholm looked pretty good tonight and was even hitting 94 on the stadium gun from time to time (which shocked me), but he still gave up back to back homers to Jason Kubel and Terry Tiffee, not exactly Murderer's Row. I don't know what else to say about this one, the team seemed affected by the general malaise that typically affects Pirates fans around this time of year.