Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

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Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 3rd, 2009

Twins Complete Royal Sweep

Minneapolis (AP) - It wasn't by any means pretty, but the Twins got the job done today sweeping the Kansas City Royals behind an ugly pitching performance from Nick Blackburn. Blackburn went 6 IP giving up 8 hits, 4 runs, including two home runs. The Royals would take a 4-2 lead all the way up to the 6th inning with Davies allowing just 2 runs on 3 hits to that point. However, that would not hold up.

Davies' allowed an Aviles error to get to his head and pretty much completely fell apart. He wound up giving up 3 hits in the inning and 3 runs were charged to him. He would not record an out in the inning. Kyle Farnsworth came in and did not help the cause one bit as he would allow 4 hits in 1 inning of work, allowing all of the inherited runners to score. He narrowly escaped a huge inning as he managed to strikeout Nomar Garciaparra with the bases loaded and two outs with a good slider.

The Twins bullpen held up their end of the bargain turning in 3 scoreless innings of relief between Timlin, Breslow, and Nathan.

Box Score

		1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R   H   E
KCR		1   0   2   1   0   0   0   0   0   4   10  3
MIN		1   1   0   0   0   4   0   0   X   6   11  0

				Kansas City Royals

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
DeJesus, LF	4	1	2	0	1	1	.257
Gordon, 3B	5	1	1	0	0	1	.354
Aviles, SS	4	1	4	2	0	0	.352
Jacobs, 1B	3	0	0	1	0	1	.206
Teahen, RF	4	0	0	0	0	3	.287
Crisp, CF	4	0	0	0	0	1	.289
Guillen, DH	4	1	2	1	0	0	.298
Tupman, C	4	0	1	0	0	0	.333
Bloomquist, 2B	4	0	0	0	0	0	.214
Batting Totals	36	4	10	4	1	7

BATTING
2B: Aviles (8), Tupman (2)
HR: Aviles (1), Guillen (8)
RBI: Aviles 2 (12), Guillen (17), Jacobs (8)
SF: Jacobs

FIELDING
E: Aviles (4), Jacobs (2), Tupman (1)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Davies (L, 0-2)		5.0	5	5	2	2	3	5.95
Farnsworth (BS, 1)	1.0	4	1	0	0	1	2.92
Waechter		2.0	2	0	0	0	0	3.65
Pitching Totals		8.0	11	6	2	2	4

				Minnesota Twins

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Gomez, CF	5	1	1	1	0	0	.264
Span, RF	2	0	1	1	1	0	.330
Nomar, 3B	4	1	0	0	0	1	.309
Morneau, 1B	4	1	2	0	0	2	.305
Young, LF	4	2	2	1	0	1	.280
Kubel, DH	3	0	0	0	1	0	.303
Casilla, 2B	4	1	2	1	0	0	.370
Redmond, C	4	0	2	1	0	0	.370
Punto, SS	4	0	1	1	0	0	.229
Batting Totals	34	6	11	6	2	4

BATTING
RBI: Span (14), Casilla (7), Young (15), Gomez (7), Punto (9), Redmond (4)
SF: Span

BASERUNNING
SB: Gomez (7)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Blackburn (W, 2-2)	6.0	8	4	4	0	3	4.75
Timlin (H, 1)		1.0	2	0	0	0	2	6.43
Breslow (H, 2)		1.0	0	0	0	0	2	2.79
Nathan (S, 5)		1.0	0	0	0	1	0	1.13
Pitching Totals		9.0	10	4	4	1	7

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Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 3rd, 2009



Twins Acquire Yunel Escobar

Minneapolis (AP) - The Minnesota Twins have announced a 6 player trade with the Atlanta Braves today. The Twins sent three of their best prospects to Atlanta in SS- Trevor Plouffe, 3B- Danny Valencia, and SP- Anthony Swarzak for SS- Yunel Escobar. Utility man Greg Norton and backup catcher David Ross were also included in the deal.

Yunel Escobar is a 26 year old SS now in his second full season as a starting shortstop in the bigs. He defected from Cuba back in 2004 before being drafted by the Braves in the second round of the 2005 draft. He is hitting .316 with 2 HR and 11 RBI so far this season. The Twins expect to bat him 2nd for the time being while Joe Mauer is out. He'll likely stay there when he returns as well, and wind up bumping Nomar down to the 5th spot, depending on how well each guy performs.

Escobar has average power for a SS, and can be expected to hit around 10-15 HRs. His biggest asset at the plate is his discipline. He's pretty tough to strike out and he won't chase bad pitches. In the field he possesses a cannon for an arm.

Morales, Buscher, and Tolbert were demoted to AAA with the trade to make room for Norton, Escobar, and Ross on the active roster.

[onlybygrace]

Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

Are you saying you traded 5 guys for Escobar?

Interesting move, none the less.

[LanteriX]

Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

Are you saying you traded 5 guys for Escobar?

Interesting move, none the less.

Nah. David Ross and Greg Norton were sent to Minnesota. It was basically a 3 for 1 cause those two guys are just backup players.

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Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 4th, 2009

Verlander Blanks Twins 4-0

Detroit (AP) - It seems Justin Verlander took a trip back down memory lane to find his good stuff for this one. Verlander was near impossible to make solid contact off and had his control show up today en route to a 8.1 IP scoreless performance. He scattered 8 hits, all singles, walked just 1 and Kd 7. The lone trouble he got into all game came in the 9th inning when he managed to get runners on the corners with 1 out, but Brandon Lyon would come in and promptly induce a double play ball from Jason Kubel to end the game.

Box Score

		1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R   H   E
MIN		0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   8   1
DET		0   1   1   0   0   2   0   0   X   4   7   0

				Detroit Tigers

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Granderson, CF	4	0	0	0	0	0	.293
Ordonez, RF	4	1	2	1	0	0	.194
Cabrera, 1B	4	1	1	2	0	3	.279
Sheffield, DH	3	1	2	1	0	0	.260
Guillen, LF	3	0	1	0	0	1	.295
Polanco, 2B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.258
Laird, C	3	0	0	0	0	1	.129
Everett, SS	3	0	1	0	0	0	.315
Inge, 3B	3	1	0	0	0	1	.171	
Batting Totals	30	4	7	4	0	6

BATTING
HR: Cabrera (10), Sheffield (7)
RBI: Ordonez (12), Cabrera 2 (16), Sheffield (15)
GIDP: Polanco, Guillen

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Verlander (W, 3-2)	8.1	8	0	0	1	7	2.51
Lyon (S, 7)		0.2	0	0	0	0	0	3.86
Pitching Totals		9.0	8	0	0	1	7

				Minnesota Twins

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Gomez, CF	2	0	0	0	1	1	.257
Escobar, SS	4	0	1	0	0	0	.313
Nomar, 3B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.306
Morneau, 1B	4	0	2	0	0	0	.313
Cuddyer, RF	4	0	1	0	0	2	.358
Kubel, DH	4	0	0	0	0	0	.287
Young, LF	3	0	0	0	0	2	.273
Ross, C		3	0	1	0	0	0	.462
Punto, 2B	3	0	2	0	0	1	.244
Batting Totals	31	0	8	0	1	7

BATTING
SAC: Gomez
GIDP: Kubel

FIELDING
E: Garciaparra (2)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Baker (L, 2-3)		6.0	7	4	3	0	4	5.75
Mijares			1.1	0	0	0	0	1	1.86
Timlin			0.2	0	0	0	0	1	5.87
Pitching Totals		8.0	7	4	3	0	6

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Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 5th, 2009

Twins Return the Favor, SO Tigers 3-0

Detroit (AP) - Well, there's an answer for you. After being shutout by Justin Verlander and the Tigers yesterday the Twins went ahead and shut the Tigers 3-0. Not only did they shut them out, but Francisco Liriano turned in an absolute gem on the mound. He carried a no hitter through 6 until it was broken up by Magglio Ordonez. Liriano improved to 4-0 with the win and went a total of 96 pitches over 7 innings giving up just 2 hits, 2 walks, and struckout a season-high 9. Jesse Crain picked up his 3rd hold of the season, and Joe Nathan slammed the door shut, striking out 2 in the 9th to pick up save number 6.

Armando Galarraga was a bit of a hard luck loser in this one. All 3 of the runs he allowed were unearned and came in the 3rd inning. He did, however, give up 9 hits so he wasn't particularly effective regardless. The Tigers bullpen combined to pitch four innings of scoreless relief between Seay, Rodney, and Dolsi to try and give their boys a chance to win but it was for naught.

The Twins improved to 17-10 with the win and are now 8-2 in their last 10, and 8-3 against AL Central opponents. They are now heading off for a short two game road trip to Baltimore. Kevin Slowey (2-1 3.79 ERA) will face Koji Uehara (1-0 4.66 ERA) followed by Glen Perkins (0-1 5.12 ERA) vs. Mark Hendrickson (1-4 8.57 ERA).

Box Score

		1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R   H   E
MIN		0   0   0   0   3   0   0   0   0   3   13  2
DET		0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   4   1

				Detroit Tigers

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Granderson, CF	4	0	1	0	0	1	.291
Ordonez, RF	4	0	1	0	0	0	.196
Cabrera, 1B	3	0	1	0	1	0	.280
Sheffield, DH	4	0	0	0	0	2	.250
Guillen, LF	3	0	0	0	1	3	.285
Polanco, 2B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.257
Treanor, C	4	0	0	0	0	3	.192
Everett, SS	3	0	0	0	0	1	.302
Inge, 3B	3	0	0	0	0	1	.164
	
Batting Totals	32	0	4	0	2	12

BATTING
GIDP: Treanor

FIELDING
E: Everett

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Galarraga (L, 2-2)	5.0	9	3	0	1	3	3.63
Seay			1.0	1	0	0	0	0	5.09
Rodney			2.0	3	0	0	0	2	0.66
Dolsi			1.0	0	0	0	0	0	1.20
Pitching Totals		9.0	13	3	0	1	5

				Minnesota Twins

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Span, CF	4	0	0	0	0	0	.316
Escobar, SS	5	0	1	0	0	1	.307
Nomar, 3B	4	1	2	0	0	1	.314
Morneau, 1B	3	1	3	0	1	0	.333
Cuddyer, RF	4	1	1	1	0	1	.352
Kubel, DH	4	0	1	2	0	2	.285
Casilla, 2B	3	0	1	0	0	0	.369
Norton, LF	4	0	3	0	0	0	.333
Redmond, C	4	0	1	0	0	0	.354
Batting Totals	35	3	13	3	1	5

BATTING
2B: Cuddyer
RBI: Cuddyer, Kubel 2
HBP: Span, Casilla
GIDP: Redmond

FIELDING
E: Escobar, Casilla

BASERUNNING
CS: Span

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Liriano (W, 4-0)	7.0	2	0	0	2	9	3.71
Crain (H, 3)		1.0	2	0	0	0	1	1.45
Nathan (S, 6)		1.0	0	0	0	0	2	1.00
Pitching Totals		9.0	4	0	0	2	12

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Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 6th, 2009

Slowey Outduels Uehara, Twins Win 2-0

Baltimore (AP) - Offense has been awfully hard to come by the last few games the Twins have been in. Today was no different. Kevin Slowey and Koji Uehara locked themselves into a duel that last 6 innings of shutout ball before the Twins finally broke it up. Uehara had allowed just 3 hits heading into the 7th inning before giving up singles to Justin Morneau and Jason Kubel putting two on with 1 out. Alexi Casilla came through with a huge clutch double into the left centerfield gap scoring both runners and giving the Twins the only two runs scored in the ballgame.

Kevin Slowey, for the third consecutive start for him was dominant. He would throw 95 pitches over 8 innings allowing just 4 hits, walking 1 and striking out 4. He allowed just two runners in scoring position, both on doubles by Markaks and Wigginton. Obviously, both were stranded. The Twins elected to go to a fresh Joe Nathan to face the Orioles 1-2-3 batters in the 9th, as opposed to putting a tiring Slowey back out there, despite how sharp he was. Nathan did his job retiring the Orioles 1-2-3.

The Twins improve to 18-10 with the victory, and are now surprisingly 8-3 on the road while just 10-7 at home. They gained a little bit of ground in the division moving up to 2 games ahead of the Sox and Indians who are both at 16-12, with the Tigers right behind at 15-13.

Box Score

		1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R   H   E
MIN		0   0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   2   7   0
BAL		0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   4   0

				Baltimore Orioles

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Roberts, 2B	4	0	0	0	0	1	.254
Markakis, RF	4	0	1	0	0	1	.349
Wigginton, DH	3	0	1	0	1	1	.279
Scott, LF	3	0	1	0	0	1	.301
Mora, 3B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.306
Jones, CF	3	0	0	0	0	0	.235
Gomez, 1B	3	0	1	0	0	0	.296
Zaun, C		2	0	0	0	0	1	.225
a-Freel, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500
Izturis, SS	3	0	0	0	0	0	.301	
Batting Totals	29	0	4	0	1	5

a - Batted for Zaun in the 8th. 

BATTING
2B: Markakis (3), Wigginton (4)
GIDP: Scott

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Uehara (L, 1-1)		6.1	6	2	2	2	1	4.33
Walker			1.0	0	0	0	0	1	2.65
Johnson			1.2	1	0	0	0	3	2.81
Pitching Totals		9.0	7	2	2	2	5

				Minnesota Twins

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Span, CF	3	0	0	0	1	0	.308
Escobar, SS	4	0	1	0	0	0	.306
Cuddyer, RF	4	0	1	0	0	1	.347
Morneau, 1B	4	1	1	0	0	1	.330
Young, LF	3	0	1	0	1	0	.274
Kubel, DH	4	1	2	0	0	1	.295
Casilla, 2B	3	0	1	2	0	0	.368
Redmond, C	3	0	0	0	0	2	.324
Punto, 3B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.236
Batting Totals	31	2	7	2	2	5

BATTING
2B: Casilla (4)
RBI: Casilla 2 (9)
GIDP: Cuddyer

BASERUNNING
CS: Young (1)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Slowey (W, 3-1)		8.0	4	0	0	1	4	3.09
Nathan (S, 7)		1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0.90
Pitching Totals		9.0	4	0	0	1	5

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Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 7th, 2009

Twins Sweep O's

Baltimore (AP) - The Twins completed a two game sweep of the Orioles today behind the bats of their two biggest run producers in Nomar Garciaparra and Justin Morneau. These two players are battling each other back and forth big time. It's starting to seem like every time one of them picks up an RBI the other one's right there matching it. This kind of competition is very good for a baseball team.

The Twins jumped all over Mark Hendrickson early putting up a 2 spot in the first inning on a two run home run by Nomar Garciaparra, his 5th homer of the season and 19th and 20th RBI. The Twins would then load the bases with just 1 out but two pop ups would get Hendrickson out of a huge inning. Yunel Escobar singled in a run in the top of the 2nd to extend the lead to 3-0. Hendrickson would settle down for the 3rd and 4th innings, but would give up another 2 run homer in the 5th inning, this time to Justin Morneau, his 4th of the year. That would be all for Hendrickson as he departed trailing 5-0.

Glen Perkins was touched for just one run in his outing and that was an RBI single by Luke Scott in the 6th inning. The win was his first of the season. He scattered 7 hits total, walking none and striking out 4. The Orioles would try to get back into it in the 9th off Philip Humber, but a 2 run home run from Zaun was all they would get, making the final 5-3. Guerrier and Breslow each pitched a scoreless inning in relief.

The Twins now get to head back home for a 6 game homestand with 3 against Seattle who they took 3 out of 4 from back in April, followed by an off day and then a 3 game set against the Tigers.

Pitching Probables vs. Seattle

Nick Blackburn (2-2 4.75 ERA) vs. Carlos Silva (0-4 8.37 ERA)
Scott Baker (2-3 5.75 ERA) vs. Felix Hernandez (2-2 3.40 ERA)
Francisco Liriano (4-0 3.72 ERA) vs. Erik Bedard (3-0 4.73 ERA)

Box Score

		1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R   H   E
MIN (19-10)	2   1   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   5   12  1
BAL (11-18)	0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   2   3   12  0

				Baltimore Orioles

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Roberts, 2B	4	1	1	0	1	0	.254
Markakis, RF	5	0	2	0	0	1	.351
Wigginton, 1B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.278
Scott, LF	4	0	2	1	0	1	.308
Mora, 3B	4	0	0	0	0	1	.294
Salazar, DH	4	1	3	0	0	0	.367
Zaun, C		4	1	2	2	0	0	.240
Freel, CF	4	0	0	0	0	0	.375
Izturis, SS	4	0	1	0	0	0	.299	
Batting Totals	37	3	12	3	1	4

BATTING
2B: Salazar (1)
3B: Salazar (1)
HR: Zaun (2)
RBI: Zaun 2 (12), Scott (16)
GIDP: Mora, Markakis

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Hendrickson (L, 1-5)	4.1	9	5	5	1	2	8.88
Liz			2.2	1	0	0	1	1	1.13
Baez			2.0	2	0	0	0	0	4.05
Pitching Totals		9.0	12	5	5	2	3

				Minnesota Twins

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Span, RF	4	1	0	0	1	1	.296
Escobar, SS	5	1	2	1	0	0	.310
Nomar, 3B	4	2	2	2	0	0	.323
Morneau, 1B	4	1	2	2	0	0	.323
Cuddyer, DH	4	0	1	0	0	0	.342
Young, LF	3	0	1	0	1	1	.276
Casilla, 2B	4	0	0	0	0	1	.352
Gomez, CF	4	0	3	0	0	0	.282
Ross, C		4	0	1	0	0	0	.412
Batting Totals	36	5	12	5	2	3

BATTING
2B: Gomez (2), Escobar (8)
HR: Morneau (4), Garciaparra (5)
RBI: Morneau 2 (20), Garciaparra (20), Escobar (12)
GIDP: Garciaparra

FIELDING
E: Garciaparra (3)

BASERUNNING
SB: Span (5)
CS: Gomez (1)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Perkins (W, 1-1)	6.0	7	1	1	0	4	4.54
Guerrier (H, 2)		1.0	1	0	0	0	0	1.35
Breslow			1.0	2	0	0	0	0	2.53
Humber			1.0	2	2	2	1	0	3.60
Pitching Totals		9.0	12	3	3	1	4

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Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

You're rollin'.

Keep it up.

[LanteriX]

Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 8th, 2009

Big Day For Kubel Leads Twins to 6-2 Win

Minneapolis (AP) - Jason Kubel has been kind of quiet lately batting out of the 6 spot in the Twins batting order. He went ahead and let the fans know that he's still there today as his big game gave the Twins the victory. Kubel would drive in 4 runs on the evening, raising his season average to .304 in the process of that.

The Mariners got on the scoreboard first in the top of the 2nd on a sacrifice fly by Calix Crabbe going ahead 1-0. Blackburn would get the next two batters out without much trouble ending the inning. The Twins would answer right back in the bottom of the inning as Delmon Young led of the inning with a four pitch walk, followed by a 2 run bomb over the baggie in right field by Jason Kubel, just his second home run of the season to go ahead 2-1. They would extend the lead to 3-1 on what would basically be the game winning hit by Delmon Young in the fourth inning singling in Morneau, who led the inning off with a double.

Nick Blackburn worked himself into a spot of trouble in the 7th inning allowing one run to score on two hits and a hit batsman but managed to work himself out of a 1st and 3rd situation with only 1 out. He struck out Adrian Beltre with a 2-2 cutter, and got Branyan to roll one over to second base to end the inning and the trouble. The Twins would score 3 more in the bottom of the 8th, compliments of an error by Yuniesky Betancourt keeping the inning alive long enough for Kubel to drive in two. Mike Timlin closed the ballgame out with the 4 run lead in the 9th, striking out 2.

The Twins are now 4-1 on the season against the Mariners, and 20-10 overall on the season.

Box Score

		1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R   H   E
SEA (16-14)	0   1   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   2   9   1
MIN (20-10)	0   2   0   1   0   0   0   3   X   6   9   0

				Seattle Mariners

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Ichiro, RF	5	0	1	0	0	1	.261
Betancourt, SS	5	0	2	1	0	1	.288
Beltre, 3B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.193
Branyan, 1B	3	0	1	0	0	0	.258
Griffey Jr, LF	4	0	1	0	0	2	.276
Lopez, 2B	4	0	0	0	0	2	.277
Clement, C	3	1	1	0	0	0	.227
a-Cedeno, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.258
Chavez, DH	4	0	2	0	0	1	.146
Crabbe, CF	2	1	0	1	0	1	.240
Batting Totals	35	2	9	2	0	9

a - Batted for Clement in the 8th. 

BATTING
RBI: Crabbe (2), Betancourt (11)
HBP: Branyan, Crabbe
SF: Crabbe

FIELDING
E: Betancourt (7)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Silva (L, 0-5)		5.0	4	3	3	2	1	7.85
Corcoran		1.0	1	0	0	1	2	2.39
Washburn		1.2	4	3	0	1	0	3.23
Aardsma			0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0.84
Pitching Totals		8.0	9	6	3	4	3

				Minnesota Twins

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Gomez, CF	3	0	1	0	1	1	.284
Escobar, SS	4	0	1	0	0	1	.308
Nomar, 3B	3	1	0	0	1	1	.313
Morneau, 1B	4	2	3	0	0	0	.351
Young, LF	2	2	1	1	2	0	.280
Kubel, DH	4	1	2	4	0	0	.304
Redmond, C	4	0	1	0	0	0	.316
Norton, RF	3	0	0	0	0	0	.296
Punto, 2B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.228
Batting Totals	30	6	9	5	4	3

BATTING
2B: Morneau (7), Escobar (9)
HR: Kubel (2)
RBI: Young (16), Kubel 4 (15)
GIDP: Kubel, Norton

BASERUNNING
SB: Gomez (8)
CS: Gomez (2)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Blackburn (W, 3-2)	7.0	8	2	2	0	5	4.34
Crain (H, 4)		1.0	1	0	0	0	2	1.35
Timlin			1.0	0	0	0	0	2	5.19
Pitching Totals		9.0	9	2	2	0	9

[GoldenJet]

Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

Is your Bruins dynasty dead or are you just busy? Good job anyways with both your Twins and Bruins dynasties.

[LanteriX]

Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 9th, 2009

Young, Dumb, and Full of..***ns, Delmon 3 R HR Propels Twins

Minneapolis (AP)- Another strong pitching performance by the Twins pitching staff and a 7th inning 3 run bomb by Delmon Young gave the red hot Twins another victory today, extending their season-high winning streak to 5 games. Young's home run was just his second of the season while his 3 RBI brought him to within 2 RBI of the team leader Justin Morneau at 21. Baker went 7 strong allowing just 2 runs to score on 8 hits and a walk. He improved to 3 and 3 with the victory.

Felix Hernandez struggled for the Mariners allowing 7 hits, 2 walks, and 3 runs, 2 earned over just 5 innings while striking out 3. David Aardsma gave up the aforementioned 3 run homer to Delmon Young in the 8th inning. Griffey homered, and Jose Lopez registered 3 hits in the loss.

Box Score

		1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R   H   E
SEA (16-15)	0   1   0   1   0   0   0   0   1   3   10  1
MIN (21-10)	0   0   1   0   2   0   3   0   X   6   12  0

				Seattle Mariners

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Ichiro, RF	3	0	1	0	1	0	.262
Betancourt, SS	4	0	1	0	0	1	.287
Beltre, 3B	4	0	0	0	0	1	.186
Branyan, 1B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.258
Griffey Jr, LF	4	2	2	1	0	0	.284
Lopez, 2B	4	1	3	0	0	0	.293
Clement, C	4	0	0	1	0	1	.217
Johjima, DH	4	0	1	1	0	0	.298
Crabbe, CF	4	0	1	0	0	2	.41
Batting Totals	35	3	10	3	1	6

BATTING
2B: Betancourt (6)
HR: Griffey (4)
RBI: Griffey (12), Clement (10), Johjima (15)
GIDP: Ichiro

FIELDING
E: Beltre (2)

BASERUNNING
SB: Ichiro (10)
CS: Ichiro (4)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Hernandez (L, 2-3)	5.0	7	3	2	2	3	3.43
Aardsma			1.1	4	3	3	0	0	1.99
Batista			1.2	1	0	0	1	2	1.20
Pitching Totals		8.0	12	6	5	3	5

				Minnesota Twins

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Span, RF	4	1	0	0	1	1	.286
Escobar, SS	4	1	2	1	1	0	.314
Cuddyer, RF	5	2	3	1	0	0	.357
Morneau, 1B	4	1	2	1	0	1	.356
Young, LF	4	1	2	3	0	0	.287
Kubel, DH	4	0	0	0	0	3	.292
Casilla, 2B	3	0	2	0	1	0	.362
Redmond, C	3	0	1	0	0	0	.317
Gomez, CF	2	0	0	0	0	0	.277
Batting Totals	33	6	12	6	3	5

BATTING
2B: Morneau (8), Cuddyer (6), Escobar (10)
HR: Young (2)
RBI: Morneau (21), Young 3 (19), Cuddyer (16), Escobar (13)
HBP: Gomez
SAC: Gomez, Redmond

FIELDING
E: Escobar (3)

BASERUNNING
CS: Casilla 2 (4)

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Baker (W, 3-3)		7.0	8	2	2	1	5	5.23
Mijares			1.0	1	0	0	0	1	1.69
Guerrier		1.0	1	1	1	0	0	1.88
Pitching Totals		9.0	10	3	3	1	6

[LanteriX]

Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

May 10th, 2009

Twins Make it Six Straight

Minneapolis (AP) - The Twins are feasting on their easy schedule so far this month as they have swept Kansas City, Baltimore, and Seattle and split 1 of 2 with Detroit in May making them a total of 9-1 on the month thus far. It's not likely that they will keep it up throughout the rest of the month, however, as after the next 3 game set with the Tigers they have to travel to New York for a 3 game series, followed by 3 against the White Sox. They then head back home to face Milwaukee and Boston so it's good that they're playing as well as they are now.

As for the game, it wasn't much of one. Liriano sailed through yet another improving his record to 5-0 on the season. 4 different Twins drove in 1 run in the game.

Probable Pitchers vs. Detroit

Kevin Slowey (3-1 3.09 ERA) vs. Jeremy Bonderman (1-4 4.80 ERA)
Glen Perkins (1-1 4.54 ERA) vs. Dontrelle Willis (1-3 5.93 ERA)
Nick Blackburn (3-2 4.34 ERA) vs. Nate Robertson (2-0 3.75 ERA)

Box Score

		1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R   H   E
SEA (16-16)	0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   1   10  2
MIN (22-10)	0   0   0   2   3   0   0   0   X   5   9   0

				Seattle Mariners

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Ichiro, RF	4	0	2	0	0	0	.269
Betancourt, SS	4	0	1	0	0	0	.285
Beltre, 3B	4	1	2	1	0	1	.196
Branyan, 1B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.257
Lopez, 2B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.291
Johjima, C	3	0	2	0	0	0	.308
Clement, DH	3	0	0	0	0	1	.210
Chavez, CF	3	0	0	0	0	0	.136
Balentien, LF	3	0	1	0	0	2	.142
Batting Totals	32	1	10	1	0	6

BATTING
2B: Branyan
3B: Betancourt, Johjima
HR: Beltre
RBI: Beltre
GIDP: Branyan, Johjima, Chavez

FIELDING
E: Beltre, Lopez

BASERUNNING
SB: Ichiro
CS: Ichiro 

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Bedard (L, 3-1)		5.0	7	5	3	1	5	4.82
Walker			2.0	2	0	0	0	2	0.00
C. Cordero		1.0	0	0	0	0	0	4.50
Pitching Totals		8.0	9	5	3	1	7

				Minnesota Twins

BATTING		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
Span, RF	4	0	1	0	0	2	.284
Nomar, 3B	4	1	1	1	0	0	.310
Cuddyer, DH	4	2	2	0	0	0	.363
Morneau, 1B	3	1	1	0	1	1	.355
Young, LF	3	0	1	1	0	1	.288
Casilla, 2B	4	0	1	1	0	1	.357
Gomez, CF	4	0	1	1	0	1	.275
Ross, C		3	0	0	0	0	1	.350
Punto, SS	4	1	1	0	0	0	.229
Batting Totals	33	5	9	4	1	7

BATTING
2B: Gomez
RBI: Garciaparra, Young, Casilla, Gomez
HBP: Ross
SF: Young

BASERUNNING
SB: Punto
CS: Casilla

PITCHING		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Liriano (W, 5-0)	7.0	8	1	1	0	6	3.32
Timlin			1.0	1	0	0	0	0	4.65
Breslow			1.0	1	0	0	0	0	2.31
Pitching Totals		9.0	10	1	1	0	6

[onlybygrace]

Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

The Twins are on FIRE!!!

[callmetaternuts]

Re: Lan's Minnesota Twins (The Show 09)

If i added it correctly, Escobar has gone 8 for 26 (.308) with 2-3 RBI's since he's come over. Has he been what you hoped?