Twins 15, Boston 8

This game was just a flat out embarassing. Allen Webster was atrocious and Felix Doubront was just as bad. It was really encouraging to see the Red Sox offense rally in the bottom of the first to make it a 5-4 game, but the joint meltdown of Webster and Doubront in the 2nd was just soul crushing. I had to switch to the Bruins game after that. The real kicker here is that the Twins are typically a mediocre hitting team, but they haven't looked like that in this series against the Red Sox. The Twins have scored 26 runs in the first 3 game of this series.

I'm not sure whether to include Doubront as a starter or reliever here. He technically came in as the reliever, but he's traditionally a starter and worked more innings than Webster. Either way, both of them were horrible failures. Webster looked solid in his first start against Kansas City with the quality start, but this was just a disaster. I thought after the Sox gave him the lead back he'd settle down and we might get some good innings out of him, but he couldn't give the runs back fast enough in the second. This gives me some serious concerns about Webster as a major league starter.
STARTING PITCHING GRADE: F

Felix Doubront came into the second inning to "relieve" Allen Webster. This was still a very winnable game when Doubront entered the game. There was a man on second, but two outs in the inning with the Sox trailing by just two runs. Walk, single, single, double 11-5 game that's now realistically out of reach. Doubront ate some more innings and gave up some more runs. Andrew Miller struck out the side in the 8th. Junichi Tazawa came in to mop up in the 9th and the first 3 batters reached and another scored on a sacrifice fly. Normally this would be a bad inning for your "closer", but given the 6 run lead the Twins held I can't really blame him for phoning it in on this one.
BULLPEN WITH DOUBRONT GRADE: F
BULLPEN WITHOUT DOUBRONT GRADE: B-

I can't put too much blame on the Red Sox bats here. They got put into a hole early and dug their way out immediately and even gave Webster a lead. 8 runs will win you most games, it's just disappointing that this was the night where they decided to have an offensive explosion was the same night the pitching would have their biggest implosion. Ironically, the only starter who didn't reach base was David Ortiz to end his hitting streak. Jonny Gomes had a grand slam to tie it up in the bottom of the 1st and put together a nice 5 RBI night for himself, it's a shame that it went to waste like this. Salty, Drew, Napoli, Pedroia and Victorino all had multi-hit games as well.
BATTING GRADE: A