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Game-time forecast: Mostly cloudy with a 40-percent chance of rain. Winds blowing out to center field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature around 70. ROYALS: SP, Guthrie Aoki RF Infante 2B Perez C Butler 1B Gordon LF Willingham DH Moustakas 3B Escobar SS Dyson CF TWINS: SP, Milone Santana SS Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Vargas DH Arcia RF Suzuki C Parmelee LF Escobar 3B Schafer CF ----------------------------- I'm off to work ... last day before vacation ... ending with a 3 1/2 hour performance of 'Marriage of Figaro.' So, Brian ... top that? ------------------------------ Umm... After the game today... I'm going shopping for Kuerig K-Cups. I also want to personally thank y…

Well, here we are, an interleague game on a Wednesday evening in Minneapolis with the getaway game scheduled for tomorrow....and the weather ain't looking fun tonight at all. The beat writers aren't confident at all that a game will be played. Which really sucks, since the wife is out of town and I'll have nothing else to do. Ah, but maybe, just maybe, we'll have a delay and a late start. Read: after the 4-year old goes to bed. Hope springs eternal. If the game is postponed, since it's interleague, I'm guessing the players will grumble through a doubleheader tomorrow and the Rockies will fly out to Cincinnati without their requisite night of rest. In any case, it'…

Rain out make up throwing a spanner in the spokes... Just getting something up before the game gets away from us... There is an ancient saying... Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life. I am not sure, how it applies here. I just figured i'd try to get discussion going as we're already down 1-0 in the first and i figure, well, that should light a fire under us... or something. Rockies German Marquez (R ) 1. Charlie Blackmon (L) CF 2. DJ LeMahieu (R ) 2B 3. Nolan Arenado ( R) 3B 4. Mark Reynolds ( R) DH 5. Carlos Gonzalez (L) RF 6. Ian Desmond ( R) 1B 7. Gerardo Parra (L) LF 8. Alexi Amarista (L) …

Looks like the Twins just got their first hits of the game in the bottom of the 3rd. Runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs. No score yet in the game. And now Polanco just walked ... bases loaded for Mauer.

Twins: Denard Span CF Jamey Carroll 2B Joe Mauer DH Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Chris Parmelee RF Trevor Plouffe 3B Chris Herrmann C Pedro Florimon SS (Liam Hendriks P) Indians: Shin-Soo Choo RF Jason Kipnis 2B Asdrubal Cabrera SS Carlos Santana C Michael Brantley CF Travis Hafner DH Russ Canzler 1B Lonnie Chisenhall 3B Vinny Rottino LF (Zach McAllister P)

Kepler is back on the field. Good to see. And that opposing pitcher seems somehow familiar... But as the game is coming fast and furious, and i... things... do... um, well the least i can do is get the thread started on the right foot... Ouch! Note to self... invest in safety shoes... Sans further ado... Twins Tyler Duffey ( R) 1. Brian Dozier (R ) 2B 2. Drew Stubbs ( R) LF 3. Byron Buxton ( R) CF 4. Miguel Sano ( R) 3B 5. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 6. Max Kepler (L) RF 7. ByungHo Park ( R) 1B 8. John Ryan Murphy (R ) C 9. Matt Hague ( R) DH Blue Jays Francisco Liriano (L) 1. Troy Tulowitzki ( R) SS 2. Russell Martin ( R) C 3. Josh Donaldson ( R) DH 4. Kendrys M…

Elmer Fudd game thread. Is it... 1) Rabbit season? Them rascally varmints tend to get everywhere and eat everything. And around my wanderings, they don't much bother to keep out of sight. Bold as brass. 2) Baseball season? Not much more happening. Glancing at the standings, some games might mean something. But i've been here before. pretty much a foregone conclusion, that someone in the New England area will think up a fancy slogan, and the Red Sox will bring another championship back to New England... But there have got to be smaller reasons to care. What are yours? 3) Football season? Minnesota pro and college teams are both undefeated. Whoop didoo. I will let y…

Nice job by Moya pitching around the Adrianza error. And once again worth remembering, yes Detroit is this bad.

Labor day is to celebrate unions, right? How best to do that in a game thread... 1. Sing a Folk or Protest song? What's yer fave? 2. Watch a cartoon about fat cats and quick little rodents. Got any recommendations? 3. Root for the Minnesota Twins and their devotion to team play, be it productive outs, sacrifices, 1 if by ground, 2 if by air. And of course getting each other's back. 4. Jokes. It is important to have a "yes i can, sir!" attitude. Once we even had a "do, sir!" attitude with us. Now the Dodgers do... 5. Last minute heroics. Sometimes minute is right. Oh yeah, line ups and such. My favorite bit is heavy rain and 79% chance there at the bottom…

Sunday afternoon lineup: Rangers Lineup: Ian Kinsler 2B Elvis Andrus SS Josh Hamilton CF Adrian Beltre 3B Michael Young DH Nelson Cruz RF David Murphy LF Mike Napoli 1B Yorvit Torrealba C SP: Neftali Feliz Twins Lineup: Denard Span CF Jamey Carroll SS Joe Mauer C Justin Morneau DH Josh Willingham LF Chris Parmelee 1B Danny Valencia 3B Clete Thomas RF Alexi Casilla 2B SP: Liam Hendriks

I finally figured out how come no one volunteered for this here game thread... It conflicts with the Twins Daily Pub Crawl. Well, conflicts is perhaps the wrong word. It is one thing more to pay attention to, and when one tends to travel light on such endeavors. ya don't wear a Duluth pack on a marathon. Or schedule a job review, for that matter. So in honour... er, to commemorate... rather to commiserate with those on this trail of beers for the season, my theme would be crawling. 1. "What starts out on four legs, then goes round on two? And finally walks on three before it's through? 'Well a baby, then a man' i said 'that's plain. and finally an old geezer with hi…

It’s like De Ja Vu all over again. In the second series the Twins have played against the Blue Jays in a week and my second game thread introduction in a week (and this season), the Blue Jays are still in a must win situation as they are still in a dead heat with the Yankees (Yankees have +.5 game lead) for the second AL Wild Card. With the NL Wild Card race pretty much decided and the Yankees having an off day today, there is only one consequential game being played this evening. Were this the NFL, this game would be bumped to national coverage in prime time. Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth would be in the broadcast booth, and there might be the alternate broadc…

Recovery day. Can the Twins win three of four against the Tigers or will Scherzer force a split? Will the Twins return to scoring double-digit runs without Twins Daily pub crawl attendees in the stands? Will we see the good Gibson or mediiocre/bad Gibson today? Why am I asking so many questions? Can someone post the lineups when they become available? I have to run some errands.

The Twins travel across the state to Jupiter to take on Ozzie Guillen and the Marlins. Here is the lineup: Denard Span CF Tsuyoshi Nishioka SS Danny Valencia 3B Chris Parmelee 1B Ryan Doumit RF Luke Hughes DH Michael Hollimon 2B JR Towles C Ben Revere LF Carl Pavano SP

Lineups TBA.

No radio or TV coverage today.... RiverBrian will be happy to see that today is "Positional Flexibility Day" MARLINS Perez 2B Hechavarria SS Dietrich 1B Telis C Moore LF Hood RF Barnes CF Rojas 3B Aaron DH Urena RHP TWINS Stubbs LF D. Santana CF Grossman DH Park 1B Castro C Escobar 3B Shuck RF Field 2B Adrianza SS E. Santana RHP

RALLY CAPS! Gratuitous use of poor formatting practices in the hopes that it will allow that 1 in a million chance to come through. I checked the standings earlier today, and our elimination number for the wild card is 1. But i also vaguely recall we had tie breakers for the wild card folk ahead of us, So maybe westill have a chance? Do we get in if we win out and either Seattle or Tampa Bay lose out? And the other teams ahead of us lose just enough? I am too lazy to look. So i will keep left justifying this intro to show i still have hope. I have it on good authority 1 in a million chances come up 9 times out of 10. The trick …

TWINS: Schafer CF Escobar SS Hermann RF Vargas 1B Nunez 3B Walker DH Robinson LF Fryer C Bernier 2B Milone P YANKEES: Gardner LF Ryan 3B Young CF Jones 1B Romine C Refsnyder 2B Flores RF Noonan SS Jagielo DH Tanaka P -------- It's a beautiful, sunny 75 deg. day in Fort Myers today. Nice day for a ballgame. I'm hoping for better results against the Yankees than what we had against the Red Sox last night. It looks like a ST away game lineup today. Good times. And play ball!

Good morning, Twins fans! (game time is late morning where I live. And, since I'm your humble host for this particular thread, good morning it is!) I'm dispensing with my usual video and snark, due to time constraints. Believe it or not, it takes time to hunt down video and then come up with snark. Today features two teams who are featuring players the teams are trying to get to know at the MLB level. Neither team is close to featuring a winning season, so, might as well find out if they have players that can help next year. Last night, and it pains me to admit it, I was rooting for Lopez because I've never seen a perfect game. Lopez was three outs from getting the …

Twins Lineup; Denard Span CF Ben Revere RF Joe Mauer DH Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Brian Dozier SS Alexi Casillia 2B Drew Butera C Jamey Carroll 3B Cole De Vries SP

Okay ... woohoo ... televised and radio-ized! Well, not by the MLB network, but if you have the MLB package you can tune in (if out of FSNO viewing or 96.3 listening area). But, well ... not trying to take the excitement out of baseball ... Trevor May. No words, just tears. <reallysadface> Umpires today: Rehak (H), Culbreth (1B), Hudson (2B), Blakney (3B) Weather: 77 deg F, sunny, winds at 10mph from R to L Lineups: REDSOX Marco Hernandez 2B Chris Young LF Andrew Benintendi DH Sam Travis 1B Jackie Bradley Jr. CF Bryce Brentz RF Rafael Devers 3B Christian Vazquez C Deven Marrero SS Henry Owens, P TWINS Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer 1B Miguel Sano 3B ByungHo P…

Game-time forecast: Partly cloudy with a 50-percent chance of rain. Winds blowing in from center field at 10-15 m.p.h. Temperature around 85. (Hmmm ... could there be a rain delay?) TWINS: SP, Correia Dozier 2B Escobar SS Morales 1B Plouffe 3B Arcia RF Willingham LF Fuld CF Fryer C Correia P ROCKIES: SP, Matzek Blackmon CF Gonzalez RF Tulowitzki SS Morneau 1B Arenado 3B Dickerson LF McHenry C LeMahieu 2B Matzek P --------------------------- Take it away, Brian! Well, don't literally take it away and walk off with it, just give us your spiel! --------------------------- I'm just going to put it over here Things to Think About: 1. Rockies Daily -- …

Lineups: Twins: Tigers:

Tonight the Twins will try to win their second in a row in Tampa: Twins Lineup: Denard Span CF Jamey Carroll SS Joe Mauer 1B Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau DH Ryan Doumit C Danny Valencia 3B Clete Thomas RF Alexi Casilla 2B SP: Carl Pavano

Twins Face Old Friend, José Berríos The Minnesota Twins are slated to face former ace-to-be José Berríos on Sunday who has a 3.31/3.47 ERA/FIP in his new threads with what would be a career best 5.50 K/BB if it were sustained over an entire season. Those numbers would be even better if you take out two starts where he allowed 10 earned runs with a K/BB of 9/7 over 7.1 innings pitched. For the first time in his career (I’m sensing a theme here), José Berríos is sustaining his first half success over the second half of the season. For the first time in his career (Ope, there it is again), José Berríos is consistently giving his team innings and production that he could…

Twins: Denard Span CF Ben Revere RF Joe Mauer DH Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Trevor Plouffe 3B Eduardo Escobar 2B Pedro Florimon SS (Scott Diamond P) Tigers: Austin Jackson CF Omar Infante 2B Miguel Cabrera 3B Prince Fielder 1B Delmon Young DH Jhonny Peralta SS Andy Dirks LF Avisail Garcia RF Gerald Laird C (Max Scherzer P)

The Rays are in town with our old friend Nelly Cruz. Not having him in the offense anymore makes me sad so I don't want to talk about the Twins offense today. The Rays are known for being one of the most creative teams and finding a way to get the most out of their pitchers by using them in unique ways. Or ending their season by pulling Blake Snell too early in the World Series. Either way. But, in honor of the Rays, I decided to get creative with the Twins 2022 pitching staff. Here's my idea: "Full" Starters: Kenta Maeda, FA1, FA2 "Half" Starters: Bailey Ober, Randy Dobnak, Griffin Jax, Prospect1 "Big 3" Relievers: Taylor Rogers, FA1, FA2 Mid Reliever…

1. Danny Santana (S) SS 2. Kurt Suzuki ® C 3. Trevor Plouffe ® 3B 4. Kennys Vargas (S) DH 5. Oswaldo Arcia (L) LF 6. Max Kepler (L) 1B 7. Aaron Hicks (S) CF 8. Doug Bernier ® 2B 9. Eric Farris ® RF Phil Hughes ® P 1. Mookie Betts ® CF 2. Dustin Pedroia ® 2B 3. David Ortiz (L) DH 4. Hanley Ramirez ® LF 5. Pablo Sandoval (S) 3B 6. Mike Napoli ® 1B 7. Xander Bogaerts ® SS 8. Ryan Hanigan ® C 9. Blake Tekotte (L) RF Clay Buchholz ® P

Fezzig game thread: Think of something clever? Well, i never... Someone said a rhyming thread would be mostly dead so here's your first head... Of a double header* Minnesota (under the new guard) 0. Randy Dobnak (R ) P 1. Jorge Polanco ( S ) SS 2. Miguel Sano (R ) 1B 3. Nelson Cruz (R ) DH 4. M. Gonzalez ( S ) RF 5. I. Vargas ( S ) 2B 6. Eddie Rosario ( L) LF 7. Ehire Adrianza ( S ) 3B 8. Max Kepler ( L) CF 9. Alex Avila ( L) C Detroit (under the old Gard) 0. Matthew Boyd ( L) P 1. Victor Reyes ( S ) RF 2. J. Schoop (R ) 2B 3. Miguel Cabrera (R ) DH 4. J. Candelario ( S ) 1B 5. Niko Goodrum ( S ) SS 6. JaCoby Jones (R ) CF 7. C. Stewart ( L) LF 8. G. Greiner…

Game-time forecast for Game 1: Mostly cloudy. Winds blowing from left to right field at 10-15 m.p.h. Temperature around 60-65. (That sounds like Fall weather; ugh.) Game 1 Lineups TWINS: SP, Gibson Santana CF Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Vargas DH Plouffe 3B Arcia RF Suzuki C Escobar SS Schafer LF INDIANS: SP, Kluber Bourn CF Ramirez SS Brantley DH Santana 1B Kipnis 2B Gomes C Chisenhall 3B Shuck LF Holt RF Lineups for Game 2 will be posted in thread when they become available and after the completion of Game 1. (Here) ---------------------------- Okay, Brian ... double-header means a double-good set up ... no pressure now ... but it's on you! (I think I might go…