Twins Extend Abysmal Postseason Losing Streak to 18 games in loss to Astros

I thought I was having issues watching the Vikings this year, no the Twins just topped that.
Well to plainly put it, the Twins bats were flat and scored a total of 2 runs this series despite self-proclaiming themselves as the "Bomba Squad". This squad couldn't hardly hit the ball. Now they never saw this pitcher during the season, but that is no excuse. Obviously the Astros hit balls off our pitchers. 

In this article I will go over the good and the ugly of the series. I will release a season review later this coming week.

Game 1: Houston Astros 4 Minnesota Twins 1 

For 8 innings, the pitching staff held the Astros hitting core to 1 run and 5 hits. This is a great outing by the Kenta Maeda and the rest of the pitching staff. The unfortunate part is that our bats couldn't hit anything. We also only had 1 run. This is unacceptable. This team is supposedly one of the best lineups in baseball this year yet they can't hit the ball worth a damn in the playoffs. 
Unfortunately in the 9th inning the defense had its first extremely bad inning of the game and gave up 3 runs and 3 hits. The bats didn't look like anything changed. While we did get Cruz on base, we pinched Cave in for him on the bases. Nothing changed and we struck out twice to end the game.

Game 2: Houston Astros 3 Minnesota Twins 1

Another decent game by the pitching staff. Jose Berrios started for the Twins and did give up one earned run. Other then that the pitching staff played decently. I use the same term for football: they bent but they didn't break. They did give up a single home run in the 7th inning. It hurt, but then again the Twins were still in reach. If the bats could just hit a run to tie it at least. But they could not do that despite Cruz getting walked. Also Buxton was in the lineup for game 2, so he pinched for Cruz in the bottom of the 8th. Except he was so aggressive with his baserunning that he was picked off soon after. The next inning the pitching staff gave up another run. Technically the game was still not out of reach but the bats still couldn't do anything. Also Rosario got thrown out of the game in the bottom of the 7th inning for chatting with the ump.

Overall:

I would say this postseason was still different then last season's postseason in one way: pitching staff. Our starting pitchers were great this year as well as our bullpen. I very much believe we have one of the best bullpens in baseball. This year's series loss is not on them. Another thing that hasn't changed is our bats go silent in the playoffs. This year was a lot more extreme then last year. At least last year we hit a few home runs in the playoffs. This year we could hardly score when literally handed the chance. 
This year is an even bigger disappointment then last year but every aspect. Many believed the Twins had a greater chance at a World Series this year then last year. This team needs to figure out how to turn this around in the postseason. Otherwise the only other choice I can see is to rip up the team again and start over.

Look for my full season recap later next week.
Until next time Twins fans.