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Johan Santana

7/3/2006

Minnesota's Santana was selected to his second All-Star team on Sunday as a starting pitcher for the American League. Santana is 9-4 with a 2.59 ERA this season.

3/12/2006

Santana allowed one run and two hits in five innings while throwing 68 pitches for Venezuela on Sunday in a World Baseball Classic second-round game against Cuba. He threw 61 pitches in his first start.

9/23/2005

Although Santana did not figure into the decision in Thursday's extra-inning victory over the Chicago White Sox, he held the southsiders in check yet again. The Twins' lefthander surrendered just one run on four hits over eight strong innings, striking out three and walking one. He has had the Sox' number this season, going 4-0 with an 0.92 ERA in five starts.

9/18/2005

Santana struck out 13 in eight innings Saturday to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 5-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox. With eight innings of scoreless, four-hit ball, the Twins' ace generated his third scoreless outing in his last seven times out. Over those seven starts, going back to August 12, the southpaw is 4-1 with a 1.18 ERA, 0.73 WHIP and 57 strikeouts in 53.1 innings.

9/12/2005

Santana may have his next start pushed back to Friday from Wednesday because of a split fingernail on his pitching hand, which has been giving him trouble of late. With Minnesota all but out of the wild-card race in the American League, there's no need to keep the Twins' ace on a regular pitching schedule.

8/24/2005

Santana was backed by just one hit from his teammates, but Jacque Jones' eighth inning solo home run sufficed for a 1-0 win over Freddy Garcia and the Chicago White Sox Tuesday night. Santana tossed eight innings of shutout ball for his 13th win of the season.

8/18/2005

Santana held the Chicago White Sox hitless until Carl Everett blooped a singled to right in the seventh inning Wednesday night. Santana then lost a shutout bid with a Paul Konerko home run in the ninth, but went on to register the 5-1 win, pitching 8.1 innings and striking out 10.

7/22/2005

On Thursday night against Detroit, Santana wasn't at his best, but claimed his second win in two second-half starts this season. Since the 2003 All-Star break, the Minnesota southpaw has gone 23-1 with a 2.13 ERA, 0.91 WHIP and .190 opponent batting average during the second half.

7/7/2005

Santana's recent struggles continued in Wednesday's loss to the Los Angeles Angels, as he allowed six runs on nine hits -- including a three-run homer by Garrett Anderson -- in 6.1 innings of work. The Twins' lefthander and reigning American League Cy Young Award winner has not won since June 8 and has lost his last three decisions. For the season, he is 7-5 with a 3.98 ERA and a major league-high 143 strikeouts in 18 starts.

6/9/2005

While Santana is just 3-2 since the start of May, the Twins' lefthander has continued his dominance on the road this season. The 26-year-old Santana threw a four-hit shutout and fanned nine in a 10-0 Minnesota win at Arizona Wednesday. The victory gave the southpaw a 6-0 record and a 2.52 ERA away from the Metrodome. In seven road starts, he has posted a 0.88 WHIP, fanned 56 and walked just five in 50 innings.

5/19/2005

Santana has dominated at times and struggled at times in 2005. After he was touched for seven runs by Toronto on Tuesday, the Minnesota ace reviewed videotape from the last year with Twins pitching coach Rick Anderson. "You could see last year he was standing much taller on his backside and driving down on the ball," Anderson told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Santana has been less upright in his delivery in 2005, and Anderson believes that has affected his command.

5/18/2005

Santana lost for the second time this month, absorbing a seven-run beating at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night. The Twins' ace lefthander allowed nine hits and seven runs in 5.1 innings, dropping to 5-2 with a 10-3 loss to the Jays.

The 26-year-old Santana had won 17 straight decisions before losing to the Angels on May 1. Tuesday night was the first time he had allowed as many as seven runs in a game since May 23, 2004. The last time he lost twice in the same month was in July, and since losing to Detroit on July 11, 2004, he's gone 18-2 with a 2.23 ERA through Tuesday night's loss. In 24 starts over that span, he's recorded 19 quality starts. Nights like Tuesday have been rare.

5/2/2005

On Sunday, Santana took the "L" in Minnesota's 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, ending the lefthander's winning streak at 17 straight games. The American League's reigning Cy Young Award winner lost for the first time since July 11, 2004, when he dropped a 2-0 decision to Detroit.

Since that loss last July, Santana has turned in 18 quality starts in 21 outings, and he has allowed more than two earned runs in a start just three times. That includes Sunday's loss, when Santana allowed just two hits and two runs over eight innings while fanning seven. For the season, he is 4-1 with a 3.29 ERA. He has fanned 52 while allowing just 30 hits and five walks in 41 innings.

4/27/2005

Santana persevered in a pitching duel with Kansas City's Jose Lima Tuesday, working eight innings and securing his 17th straight win when Lew Ford singled home the winning run in the ninth for a 2-1 Twins victory. That 17th straight "W" leaves him just three shy of Roger Clemens' American League record of 20 straight, which the future Hall of Famer secured between June 3, 1998 and June 1, 1999.

Santana's 17 wins date back to July 17, 2004. Over those 20 starts, the Minnesota lefthander is 17-0 with a 1.77 ERA and 174 strikeouts in 137.1 innings. He has allowed just 83 hits and 26 walks during this span, good for a 0.79 WHIP. The Twins have gone 19-1 in those 20 starts.

4/6/2005

Santana needed more than 30 pitches to get through the first inning of Tuesday's season opener against the Seattle Mariners, and when all was said and done, he had allowed four runs before notching the third out. The Twins' ace bounced back from his rough start and did not give up another run over his next four innings of work. With some help from his offense in the fifth, Santana was able to record the victory, striking out six and walking just one in five innings.

Santana probably could have gone another inning or two, but being early in the season, the Twins decided not to push their top starter. He claimed the American League Cy Young Award last year after going 20-6 with a 2.61 ERA in 34 starts, striking out 265 and walking just 54 in 228 innings. Santana has won a club record 14 consecutive decisions.