Crossing The Bridge | Minnesota Twins

[royals19]

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Dude, you absolutely DESTROYED my Royals... I can't believe all of our starters only went 4 innings each... wait, yes I can. Hochevar was in the rotation.

[beamerball811]

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Dude, you absolutely DESTROYED my Royals... I can't believe all of our starters only went 4 innings each... wait, yes I can. Hochevar was in the rotation.

Don't feel bad, 8 of the 9 starters I've faced haven't made it past the fifth inning. Part of it is large pitch counts because of my patience at the plate. I know that pitchers are getting relieved early to preserve their arms. That's what I've been doing too. I can't believe that I'm 8-1 to be honest. I was planning on doing poorly, but this offense is just clicking with me.

[Deuce2223]

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Don't feel bad, 8 of the 9 starters I've faced haven't made it past the fifth inning. Part of it is large pitch counts because of my patience at the plate. I know that pitchers are getting relieved early to preserve their arms. That's what I've been doing too. I can't believe that I'm 8-1 to be honest. I was planning on doing poorly, but this offense is just clicking with me.

I wish I could be patience. I think I only avg like 2 BB a game I had a game the other day where for the first 3 IP I hit and recorded outs on 9 of the first 15 pitches I saw...

[beamerball811]

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I wish I could be patience. I think I only avg like 2 BB a game I had a game the other day where for the first 3 IP I hit and recorded outs on 9 of the first 15 pitches I saw...

Yikes! I have a couple of games like that, but luckily my offense is hitting the ball well. I think my patience comes from IRL when I was best when I hit with 2 strikes.

[beamerball811]

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Games 10-12
5-4vs. 8-1
@ Target Field

April 12th, 7:10 CT
Game 1

Dillon Gee 1-0 2.25 ERA vs. Kevin Correia 0-0 2.84 ERA

April 13th, 12:05 CT
Game 2

Matt Harvey 1-0 3.86 ERA vs. TBD

April 14th, 1:10 CT
Game 3

Johan Santana 1-0 2.30 ERA vs. Mike Pelfrey 2-0 3.09 ERA

Players to Watch

Daniel Murphy .318 AVG 2 HR 7 RBI | Marlon Byrd .233 AVG 3 HR 7 RBI | David Wright .222 AVG 2 HR 6 RBI

Series Notes
-Minnesota has a 3.0 game lead in the AL Central over the White Sox with an 8-1 record.
-The Mets are tied for 2nd in the NL East with a 5-4 record and trail the Nationals by 1.0 game.
-Justin Morneau leads the league in home runs (7) and runs batted in (17.)
-Aaron Hicks leads the league in runs (9) and is tied for the lead in stolen bases (6.)
-Johan Santana leads the Mets in strikeouts (15.) The Twins will see him Sunday.

[beamerball811]

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Resilient Twins Comeback Again

Morneau's grand slam and Plouffe's home run give Twins the win.
By Aaron Ferguson
Minneapolis, MN
Kevin Correia got off to a very shaky start to begin the game. After recording a strikeout to Eric Young Jr, the Mets started a rally. All three runs in the inning would end up scoring with two outs. Lucas Duda did the bulk of the damage by driving a two-out double to score two runs. After a perfect second inning, Correia gave up a RBI single to Daniel Murphy to give the Mets a 4-0 lead.

Dillon Gee was perfect through the order the first time, but the second time was a little different. Gee would allow a leadoff walk and two singles to follow to load the bases. It looked as if Gee was about to get a big out when Justin Morneau swung at a bad pitch for a second strike, however Gee left a hanging changeup that Morneau made sure he paid for. Morneau tied the game up with a grand slam. Doumit would walked after Willingham flied out to left field to bring Trevor Plouffe up. Plouffe hit a two-strike pitch to right field on a towering fly ball. The wind caught the ball and carried it out for a two-run home run to give the Twins a 6-4 lead.

Correia and the Twins bullpen would shut down the Mets lineup from there to earn their ninth win of the season. Correia looked sharp in last night's contest and may stay in the rotation. Ron Gardenhire was pleased with his effort, "Kevin pitched well enough to win tonight. It wasn't ideal for us giving up 4 early runs, but our offense is resilient."

New York Mets at Minnesota Twins
Apr 11, 2013	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York (5-4)	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	11	1
Minnesota (8-1)	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	X	6	5	0
W: Kevin Correia (1-0) L: Dillon Gee (1-1)

New York Mets
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
CF Eric Young Jr	4	0	0	0	0	2	.172
SS Ruben Tejada	4	1	1	0	0	1	.310
3B David Wright	4	2	3	0	0	0	.275
1B Ike Davis	4	0	1	0	0	1	.194
2B Daniel Murphy	4	1	3	2	0	0	.384
LF Lucas Duda	4	0	1	2	0	2	.218
DH Jordany Valdespin	4	0	1	0	0	0	.233
RF Marlon Byrd	4	0	0	0	0	0	.205
C Travis D'Arnaud	4	0	1	0	0	2	.192
TOTALS	36	4	11	4	0	8
BATTING 2B: Murphy (4), Duda (2) RBI: Murphy (8,9), Duda (7,8)
BASERUNNING SB: Wright (2) CS: Murphy (1)
FIELDING E: Davis (2)

New York Mets
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Dillon Gee (L, 1-1)	4.1	4	6	6	2	2	5.83
Shaun Marcum	3.2	1	0	0	0	2	0.00
TOTALS	8.0	5	6	6	2	4

Minnesota Twins
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
SS Jamey Carroll	3	1	0	0	1	0	.282
CF Aaron Hicks	4	1	1	0	0	0	.279
C Joe Mauer	4	1	1	0	0	0	.390
1B Justin Morneau	4	1	1	4	0	1	.482
LF Josh Willingham	3	0	0	0	0	1	.400
DH Ryan Doumit	2	1	1	0	1	0	.368
3B Trevor Plouffe	3	1	1	2	0	1	.277
RF Chris Parmelee	3	0	0	0	0	1	.258
2B Brian Dozier	3	0	0	0	0	0	.264
TOTALS	29	6	5	6	2	4
BATTING HR: Morneau (8), Plouffe (2) RBI: Morneau (18,19,20,21), Plouffe (7,8)

Minnesota Twins
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Kevin Correia (W, 1-0)	6.0	9	4	4	0	6	4.37
Jared Burton (H,4)	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	4.50
Anthony Swarzak (H, 4)	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	2.70
Glen Perkins (S, 5)	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	10.38
TOTALS	9.0	11	4	4	0	8

[beamerball811]

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Sorry for the lack of updates. Today (Sunday) is my birthday and I got taken on a surprise trip to Kansas City (3.5 hour drive) to see my Red Sox play as my birthday present. Sooo...I think you can understand that! Haha.

[beamerball811]

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Worley's Return Was Spectacular

Vance Worley out-pitched Matt Harvey and lead the Twins past the Mets.
By Aaron Ferguson
Minneapolis, MN

Vance Worley was cleared by team doctor's to pitch after an assessment Friday evening. Worley was chosen to start against Harvey after plenty of rest. Worley's big afternoon fueled the Twins as they beat the Mets 6-3 Saturday afternoon. Worley threw eight strong innings while allowing two runs on just five hits.

Minnesota's offense continues to hit at a high level. Lead by Trevor Plouffe, the Twins scored four runs off of Matt Harvey. Plouffe's two-run home run put the Twins ahead 4-0 and would eventually be enough to win the game. Plouffe was happy with his performance, "It's nice to please the home fans in a big game against a great, young pitcher."

New York will throw Johan Santana on the bump against Minnesota's Mike Pelfrey. Pelfrey is 2-0 with a 3.09 earned run average (ERA) in two starts this season. Santana is 1-0 with a 2.30 ERA in his two starts. First pitch is scheduled for 1:10 local time at Target Field.

New York Mets at Minnesota Twins
Apr 13, 2013	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York (5-5)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	3	8	1
Minnesota (9-1)	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	X	6	11	0
W: Vance Worley (2-0) L: Matt Harvey (1-1) S: Glen Perkins (6)

New York Mets
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
CF Eric Young Jr.	4	0	1	0	0	0	.182
SS Ruben Tejada	4	0	0	0	0	1	.273
3B David Wright	3	1	0	0	1	0	.256
1B Ike Davis	4	2	3	1	0	0	.250
2B Daniel Murphy	4	0	2	0	0	0	.400
LF Lucas Duda	4	0	1	1	0	2	.222
DH Jordany Valdespin	4	0	0	0	0	1	.206
RF Marlon Byrd	4	0	1	1	0	0	.211
C Travis D'Arnaud	4	0	0	0	0	2	.167
TOTALS	35	3	8	3	1	6
BATTING 2B: Davis (2) RBI: Duda (9), Byrd (8), Davis (3)
FIELDING E: Wright (1)

New York Mets
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Matt Harvey (L, 1-1)	4.0	7	5	4	1	3	5.00
Shaun Marcum	2.0	2	1	1	0	2	0.90
Scott Atchison	2.0	2	0	0	1	1	1.50
TOTALS	8.0	11	6	5	2	6

Minnesota Twins
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
SS Jamey Carroll	5	0	1	2	0	2	.273
CF Aaron Hicks	5	0	1	1	0	0	.271
C Joe Mauer	4	1	2	0	0	0	.400
1B Justin Morneau	4	1	1	0	0	1	.455
LF Josh Willingham	3	0	0	0	0	0	.368
DH Ryan Doumit	4	2	3	1	0	0	.405
3B Trevor Plouffe	4	2	2	2	0	1	.300
RF Chris Parmelee	4	0	1	1	0	1	.257
2B Brian Dozier	2	0	0	0	2	1	.250
TOTALS	35	6	11	5	2	6
BATTING 2B: Doumit (6) HR: Plouffe (3) RBI: Plouffe (9,10), Hicks (11), Doumit (8), Parmelee (3) HBP: Willingham
BASERUNNING CS: Dozier (2)

Minnesota Twins
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Vance Worley (W, 2-0)	8.0	5	2	2	1	4	2.25
Caleb Thielbar	0.2	3	1	1	0	2	1.69
Glen Perkins (S, 6)	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	9.64
TOTALS	9.0	8	3	3	1	6

[CameRoN0407]

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Lovin' the dynasty so far! Definitely following!

[beamerball811]

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Lovin' the dynasty so far! Definitely following!

Thank you, I appreciate it. Go Red Sox!!

[beamerball811]

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Santana Blanks Twins in Return to Minnesota

Minnesota's bats couldn't get anything going against Johan Santana.
By Aaron Ferguson
Minneapolis, MN
It was another beautiful day in the Twin Cities for some baseball. Johan Santana would make a return start against the Twins. He felt at home against the Twins, only allowing three hits all game. Santana threw a three-hit shutout, powering the Mets to a 9-0 win over the Twins.

Throughout the course of the series, it looked like the Minnesota offense was beginning to slow down. Despite winning the first two games of the series, the Twins were outscored 16-12 in the three-game set. A low spot was seeing Duensing pitch poorly out of the bullpen yesterday. He has now started a game and come in as a reliever and has allowed 10 earned runs in 6 2/3 innings pitched.

Minnesota has to move on from this series with the 3-9 Angels coming into town next. Although the bottom of the rotation will pitch for both teams, Jerome Williams of the Angels leads the league in ERA (0.68.) Williams, however has lost his first two starts in 1-0 ball games. Minnesota's offense will need to pick up this series to win the three-game set.

New York Mets at Minnesota Twins
Apr 14, 2013	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York (5-6)	0	0	1	3	1	4	0	0	0	9	15	0
Minnesota (10-1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
W: Johan Santana (2-0) L: Mike Pelfrey (2-1)

New York Mets
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
CF Eric Young Jr	5	1	1	0	0	1	.184
SS Ruben Tejada	5	2	2	1	0	0	.289
3B David Wright	4	1	1	3	0	1	.255
1B Ike Davis	4	0	2	1	1	0	.272
2B Daniel Murphy	5	1	4	0	0	0	.457
LF Lucas Duda	5	1	1	0	0	2	.219
DH Jordany Valdespin	4	1	1	2	0	0	.210
RF Marlon Byrd	3	1	1	1	1	0	.219
C Travis D'Arnaud	4	1	2	1	0	1	.205
TOTALS	39	9	15	9	2	5
BATTING 2B: Murphy (5), Wright (3), Davis (3), Valdespin (2) HR: D'Arnaud (1) RBI: Wright (7,8,9), Valdespin (6,7), Davis (4), D'Arnaud (3), Tejada (3) SF: Wright GIDP: Tejada, Valdespin

New York Mets
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Johan Santana (W, 2-0)	9.0	3	0	0	3	8	1.45

Minnesota Twins
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
SS Jamey Carroll	2	0	0	0	2	0	.260
CF Aaron Hicks	4	0	1	0	0	2	.269
C Ryan Doumit	4	0	0	0	0	1	.369
LF Josh Willingham	4	0	1	0	0	1	.357
1B Justin Morneau	3	0	0	0	1	1	.416
3B Trevor Plouffe	4	0	0	0	0	0	.272
RF Darin Mastroianni	3	0	1	0	0	1	.476
2B Brian Dozier	2	0	0	0	0	0	.236
DH Pedro Florimon	3	0	0	0	0	2	.266
TOTALS	29	0	3	0	3	8
BATTING HBP: Dozier
BASERUNNING SB: Hicks (8), Dozier (1) CS: Carroll (1)
FIELDING E: Morneau (1)

Minnesota Twins
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Mike Pelfrey (L, 2-1)	5.0	9	5	5	1	4	4.86
Brian Duensing	1.2	4	4	4	1	1	13.50
Michael Tonkin	2.1	2	0	0	0	0	0.00
TOTALS	9.0	15	9	9	2	5

[beamerball811]

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Games 13-15
3-9 vs. 10-2

April 15, 7:10 CT
Game 1

Tommy Hanson 0-1 2.77 ERA | Scott Diamond 2-0 4.05 ERA

April 16, 7:10 CT
Game 2

Jason Vargas 0-0 4.09 ERA | Cole De Vries 1-0 6.75 ERA

April 17, 7:10 CT
Game 3

Jerome Williams 0-2 0.68 ERA | Kevin Correia 1-0 4.38 ERA

Players to Watch

Mark Trumbo .211 AVG 2 HR 7 RBI | Mike Trout .205 AVG 9 H 4 RBI | Albert Pujols .222 AVG 1 HR 7 RBI

Series Notes
-Minnesota is 10-2 and hold a 3-game lead in the Central over the Royals
-Los Angeles is 3-9 and trail the Rangers by 4.5 games in the West
-Justin Morneau leads the league in home runs (8) and runs batted in (21)
-Josh Hamilton is on the DL with a broken collarbone
-Jerome Williams is third in ERA with 0.68, though has lost two games 1-0

[beamerball811]

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Iannetta Goes Yard, Twice

Minnesota can't contain the Angels' offense in a 10-3 loss.
By Aaron Ferguson
Minneapolis, MN
It was another rough night for Minnesota pitchers. The Angels had runners on base the entire night and struck for 10 runs. Chris Iannetta played a big part in the outburst by hitting two home runs and driving in four runs. Mike Trout hit his first home run on the season as well. The Twins have now lost back-to-back games for the first time this season.

Scott Diamond settled down after the fifth inning to retire the side in the sixth. After allowing a walk, Gardenhire decided to pull Diamond and bring in Brian Duensing. Gardenhire wanted to give Duensing a chance to redeem himself, however he couldn't. Brian gave up four runs, though only three were charged to him. The Twins will have to get through the next two games without having to go deep into their bullpen to avoid problems with tiring pitchers.

"It's just unfortunate how things have worked out for us these past two games. Duensing looked good in spring training, but he just doesn't have it anymore," Gardenhire talked about his team's play. "We hit the ball well tonight, but our pitching didn't give us a chance to win the game."

Minnesota will be tasked with facing Jason Vargas in tomorrow's game. Cole De Vries will take the mound for the third time for the Twins this season.

Los Angeles Angels at Minnesota Twins
Apr 15, 2013	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles (3-9)	0	3	0	1	1	0	4	0	1	10	16	1
Minnesota (10-2)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	9	0
W: Tommy Hanson (1-1) L: Scott Diamond (2-1)

Los Angeles Angels
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
SS Eric Aybar	6	0	0	0	0	1	.304
3B Alberto Callaspo	5	0	1	0	0	1	.220
1B Albert Pujols	4	1	1	0	1	0	.224
CF Mike Trout	4	3	3	2	0	0	.250
LF Mark Trumbo	4	1	2	1	1	1	.238
2B Howie Kendrick	5	3	3	1	0	0	.265
C Chris Iannetta	5	2	3	4	0	0	.231
RF Colin Cowgill	5	0	2	2	0	0	.129
DH Peter Bourjos	5	0	1	0	0	0	.250
TOTALS	43	10	16	10	2	3
BATTING 2B: Trout (5,6), Cowgill (2) HR: Iannetta (1,2), Trout (1) RBI: Iannetta (1,2,3,4), Trout (5,6), Cowgill (2,3), Trumbo (8), Kendrick (5) HBP: Trout
FIELDING E: Pujols (1)

Los Angeles Angels
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Tommy Hanson (W, 1-1)	8.0	6	2	2	1	5	2.57
Scott Downs	1.0	3	1	1	1	0	3.38
TOTALS	9.0	9	3	3	2	5

Minnesota Twins
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
SS Pedro Florimon	3	0	1	0	0	0	.278
1B Chris Colabello	4	1	1	0	0	1	.200
C Joe Mauer	4	0	1	0	0	0	.388
LF Josh Willingham	4	0	0	0	0	1	.326
DH Ryan Doumit	3	1	1	1	0	1	.367
CF Aaron Hicks	4	1	4	1	0	0	.321
RF Chris Parmelee	2	0	0	0	1	0	.243
3B Jamey Carroll	3	0	0	0	1	2	.245
2B Brian Dozier	3	0	1	1	0	0	.244
TOTALS	30	3	9	3	2	5
BATTING HR: Hicks (4) RBI: Hicks (12), Doumit (9), Dozier (5) HBP: Florimon SF: Doumit SAC: Parmelee GIDP: Mauer
BASERUNNING CS: Hicks (1), Florimon (1)

Minnesota Twins
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Scott Diamond (L, 2-1)	6.1	9	6	6	2	1	5.49
Brian Duensing	0.2	3	3	3	0	0	15.95
Jared Burton	1.0	2	0	0	0	2	3.60
Casey Fien	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	4.91
TOTALS	9.0	16	10	10	2	3

[beamerball811]

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Patriots Day Gone Wrong

Not only did the Red Sox lose, Boston lost emotionally on a tough day.
Associated Press
Boston, MA
Patriots Day is a holiday celebrated in Massachusetts across the entire state. It is also known as the day of the Boston Marathon, however things went wrong in today's race. Two bombs exploded during yesterday's event, killing several and injuring hundreds. Boston-area hospitals are treating victims that were injured in the two blasts.

Officials are looking at any evidence they can recover from the bombing sites along with any surveillance video that may show possible suspects. Right now, the media display the only footage of the two explosions that occurred only an hour after the Red Sox game concluded.

Around Major League Baseball tomorrow, the teams will have a moment of silence before the game and will play "God Bless America" in the seventh inning before the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Other teams around the league may add their own events after yesterday's bombings.

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Whispers About the Twins
10:32 AM: Brian Duensing has been placed on the trading block. The Twins are making calls around the league to see if there are any suitors for the left-hander. Duensing sports a 15.95 ERA in 3 appearances this season.

11:24 AM: Kyle Gibson's fractured hand is on pace to be back in late May or early June still. Gibson was injured in his last start in Spring Training.

11:57 AM: Class-A pitcher Pedro Hernandez has been placed on irrevocable waivers and removed from the Twins 40-man roster.

12:24 PM: Brian Duensing is currently on his way to Rochester to join the Red Wings in AAA.

1:06 PM: Rich Harden has been scratched from his AAA start in Rochester and will join the Twins in Minneapolis for tonight's game.

3:23 PM: Rich Harden will not be joining the Twins and will start in Rochester tonight.

3:24 PM: Right Fielder Clete Thomas has been removed from the 40-man roster and placed on irrevocable waivers.