071 doesn't even fully portray his futility

Gomez's mistake may look more costly, as the Twins went on to lose that game by just one run, but the magnitude of Punto's can't be overstated.The crowd in Game Three was dying for something to get excited about Every Pavano strikeout was met with a roar. Even Nick Swisher walking to first on ball three elicited a powerful cry from the nearly 55,000 fans inattendance.When Joe Mauer singled home Denard Span to give the Twins their lead, my dB meter maxed out 120 decibels and that was probably on the low side.That's louder than a jet engine and probably closer to a gunshot at close range.As loud as the crowd was at that moment, it was that silent when Punto was tagged out at third. At the time I likened it to 55,000 peoplesimultaneously watching small child fall down a staircase; it was that level of shock and horror.Psyche broken, the Twins never had a chance to get back in the game. Myths, once in place, are powerful beyond the ken of facts. Irrespective, they are symptomatic of what cost the Twins this series.Talent-wise, the Twins were good enough to win this series, but they needed to play mistake-free baseball and get contributions from not only the hitters who had produced all season (Mauer, Span, Jason Kubel, Orlando Cabrera, and Michael Cuddyer) but also from those who had hit well during the Twins' September run (Punto, Delmon Young, Matt Tolbert, and perhaps aresurrection from Jose Morales).What they got was stellar production from Mauer (.417/.500/.500), Cuddyer (.429/.429/.429), and...Nick Punto That's right, the goat of game three was the Twins' best offensive threat: .444/.583/.556.On the other end of things, Orlando Cabrera and Delmon Young (.154/.267/.154 and .083/.214/.167, respectively) were unable to bring much to the Twins' attack, but perhaps no hitter looked more overmatched than Jason Kubel.An absolutely critical part of the Twins' attack for all of the 2009 season, Jason Kubel was well and truly beaten by the Yankees pitchers. His line of .071/.071/.071 doesn't even fully portray his futility. His 1-for-14 series, among his worst 20 ABs of the season, included nine strikeouts.I don't mean to take anything away from the Yankees, who played well enough to win each of the three games, but with the exception of Game One, they hardly dominated.

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