LYNX: DAMNED WITH DUSTY PRAISE

It's absolutely nuts the Lynx have one homer to their name following today's doubleheader split vs. Rochester. The law of averages would dictate one of these days they're going smoke some dingers, and maybe hit a few dongs too. Seriously, it might be time to call up the Elias Sports Bureau and find out this last time this happened — 24 games, one homer.

That figures. You praise a guy one night and the next night he geeks it: Lynx catcher-infielder Dusty Wathan, a hero of the last two home games, grounded into three double plays in a second-game 3-2 loss (boxscore, play-by-play). One came in the final inning with Wathan representing the go-ahead run. Another, with two runners on in the fourth, hurt too: Rochester rallied in the bottom of that inning, with Matt LeCroy -- hey, remember when the Twins thought he could do a better job at DH than David Ortiz? — tying it up with a two-out RBI single off J.D. Durbin, who had seven strikeouts and no walks across four-plus innings in a losing effort.

Two runs was enough for Brian Mazone (two hits across six innings) in a 2-1 squeaker (boxscore, play-by-play) in the opener. Gary Burnham hit two leadoff doubles and came around to score each time. Brian Sanches notched the save in his first chance since Yoel Hernández got the call to Philly.