New York Yankees vs. Minnesota Twins

Everyone seems to have their nemesis. Sherlock Holmes had Moriarty, MacGuver had Murdoq and Rosie has the Donald. Oh yeah and before we forget, the Minnesota Twins have the New York Yankees.

Plenty of teams have trouble playing against the storied Yankees (49-34), but no one seems as inept against them as the Minnesota Twins (43-41), who have been playing excellent baseball lately, until their nemesis arrived in town.

The Minnesota Twins had won eight of their last 13 to pull within a game and a half of the AL-Central leading Detroit Tigers until facing New York in the first game of a three-game home series.

The result was all to familiar, a loss, 10-2, as Minnesota’s red-hot bats were held in check by old adversary C.C. Sabathia, who used to mow down Twins batters while a member of the Cleveland Indians from 2001-2008 and now pitches for the Yankees.

The loss was the fifth straight for Minnesota against New York this season after the Twins dropped four in a series in the Bronx from May 15-18. The Yankees have won 11 of the last 15 games over the Twins dating back to the beginning of last season.

The Twins will face another one of the New York Yankees’ big off-season acquisitions who has initials for a name when A.J. Burnett (7-4, 3.83) takes to the mound to capture the series from Minnesota again. Burnett has won three of his last four starts and is going for three straight after holding his ex-teammates in Toronto to two runs on seven hits over six innings of work in a 4-2 Yankees victory on July 3.

The Yankees’ bats will face Glen Perkins (4-4, 4.38), who is also looking to win his third straight and has also won three of four. Perkins weathered allowing 10 hits in his last outing against the Kansas City Royals, via walking none, to allow just one run in seven innings of a 5-1 victory on July 1.

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