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10:05 PM ET Liam Hendriks... "Now there's a name i haven't heard in a long time." I'm tempted to just quote Star Wars ad nauseum, but i moght not be online enough to fill a game thread with it. But roads must roll and game threads must... thread the game? And so long as i am here, i'll play bobbin. La tortuga is catching again. There is hope we can measure up, perchance even affect a play off picture, at least a little. I like the nickname, as on the small roads in central Mass, one often comes across hand painted turtle x-ing signs. There is even a turtle in El Mariachi, the movie what brought Robert Rodriguez into notice. Anyway, i hope we play good. And well…

Hey all, it's been a while since I've covered a game thread. Today the Twins will face the Rays in a rubber match for another series win. While some fans may have expected the Twins to flirt with 100+ losses this season, they've inexplicably gone 7-5 since the trade deadline against some of MLB's best teams. Baseball can be weird sometimes. I've got 3 topics on the docket today: #1: Rays starter Luis Patino Acquired in the Blake Snell trade (which may go down as a highway robbery the way it's looking), Patino was pitching in AA at the ripe age of 19. The Colombian native joined the Padres' roster in 2020 and even pitched in 3 playoff games at the age of 20.…

1pm game is over. We missed it. You can read about it the appropriate article on this sight (feel free to throw a link in here, moderator types) White Sox Reynaldo Lopez (R ) 1. Yolmer Sanchez (S) 3B 2. Leury Garcia (S) 2B 3. Avisail Garcia ( R) RF 4. Daniel Palka (L) LF 5. Matt Davidson (R ) 1B 6. Omar Narvaez (L) DH 7. Welington Castillo ( R) C 8. Tim Anderson ( R) SS 9. Adam Engel ( R) CF Twins Jose Berrios ( R) 1. Joe Mauer (L) DH 2. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 3. Jake Cave (L) CF 4. Robbie Grossman (S) LF 5. Tyler Austin ( R) 1B 6. Max Kepler (L) RF 7. Willians Astudillo ( R) C 8. Ehire Adrianza (S) 3B 9. Gregorio Petit ( R) 2B Gametime Forecast: 52°F • Mostly Cloudy …

Twins Lineup: Denard Span CF Jamey Carroll SS Joe Mauer DH Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Danny Valencia 3B Trevor Plouffe RF Ben Revere LF Alexi Casilla 2B SP: Carl Pavano Royals Lineup: Jarrod Dyson CF Alex Gordon LF Billy Butler DH Eric Hosmer 1B Jeff Francoeur RF Mike Moustakas 3B Yuniesky Betancourt 2B Brayan Pena C Alcides Escobar SS SP: Everett Teaford

"3,000 years of beautiful tradition, you're right, i'm living in the passed" -Walter Sobchek, toned down because this is a family restaurant, despite basic freedoms that effect everybody... Not to get lost in popular quote, the past is kinda important. What are your favorite Twins moments, over the years, or over this season? Or if not favorite, stand out as memorable? I still think that game in Oakland where Byron homered in extras, then consecutive throwing errors lost the game for us was pretty crazy. And i know i harped on it in a previous game thread intro, but so many former (or shoulda been) Twins are playing for Detroit, it is l…

JoeCStrib #Twins vs. Dempster: Span 8, Revere 9, Mauer DH, Willingham 7, Morneau 3, Plouffe 5, Dozier 6, Butera 2, Carroll 4. (Liriano P) sorry just copied and pasted from Twiiter...according to several Twitter sources Gardy hinted today on his radio show that Hendriks will be called up to start on Saturday....had another great outing last night in Rochester.

HOME GAME ORIOLES Cabrera SS Pierce 1B Snider LF Young RF Clevenger DH Schoop 2B Nix 3B Joseph C Alvarez CF Jimenez, P TWINS Schafer CF Mauer 1B Dozier 2B Hunter RF Rosario LF Suzuki C Escobar 3B Pinto DH Nunez SS Santana, P AWAY TWINS Santana SS Robinson RF Plouffe 3B Vargas DH Arcia LF Hicks CF Hermann 1B Fryer C Beresford 2B Pelfrey, P BoSOX Betts CF Pedroia 2B Sandoval DH Ramirez LF Napoli 1B Victorino RF Bogaerts SS Hannigan C Weeks 3B Porcello, P Double the fun today! Keep me posted ... I'll be working!

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Okay ... starting this after the start ... in case anyone is able to break away from Easter services, dinner, egg hunts, family, whatever ... I don't 'do' Easter, so I'm watching the game. TWINS Santana CF Nunez 3B Dozier 2B Arcia LF Park 1B Escobar SS Centeno DH Murphy C Mastroianna RF Hughes P YANKEES Ellsbury CF Gardner LF ARod DH Teixeira 1B McCann C Beltran RF Headley 3B Castro 2B Gregorius SS Eovaldi P

Better late than never? Well, maybe not at this point in the season. Twins: Gabriel Moya (L) (opener? or bullpen game?) 1. Joe Mauer (L) 1B 2. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 3. Eddie Rosario (L) LF 4. Robbie Grossman (S) DH 5. Jake Cave (L) CF 6. Logan Forsythe ® 2B 7. Max Kepler (L) RF 8. Ehire Adrianza (S) 3B 9. Willians Astudillo ® C Tigers: Jordan Zimmermann ® 1. Jeimer Candelario (S) 3B 2. Christin Stewart (L) LF 3. Nicholas Castellanos ® RF 4. Victor Martinez (S) DH 5. Jim Adduci (L) 1B 6. Ronny Rodriguez ® SS 7. James McCann ® C 8. Dawel Lugo ® 2B 9. Victor Reyes (S) CF Gametime Forecast: 80°F • Clear • 0% PoP

Lineups: Twins: Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer DH Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Trevor Plouffe 3B Oswaldo Arcia RF Aaron Hicks CF Pedro Florimon SS (Vance Worley P) Angels: J.B. Shuck LF Mike Trout CF Albert Pujols DH Josh Hamilton RF Mark Trumbo 1B Howard Kendrick 2B Chris Iannetta C Brendan Harris SS Luis Jimenez 3B (Tommy Hanson P)

Twins: Ben Revere CF Jamey Carroll 2B Joe Mauer DH Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Chris Parmelee RF Darin Mastroianni LF Eduardo Escobar 3B Pedro Florimon SS ( Esmerling Vasquez P) Indians: Shin-Soo Choo RF Jason Kipnis 2B Asdrubal Cabrera DH Michael Brantley CF Carlos Santana 1B Russ Canzler LF Brent Lillibridge SS Jason Donald 3B Lou Marson LF (Corey Kluber P)

Royals Killer Max Kepler will look to add to his career .826 OPS against the Kansas City Royals in 322 plate appearances over 78 games which equates to roughly half a season of games played. If we extrapolate that to an entire season, he is slashing .266/.376/.826 with 18 homeruns, 96 runs scored, and 58 RBI. This season alone he's hit two homeruns with an OPS of .891 after Saturday night where he went 2-for-4 with a 2B and HR. Twins Killer Royals backstop, Salvador Perez, enters today with 576 career plate appearances over 141 games against the Minnesota Twins which is almost perfectly the equivalent to playing one full season. In "one season" of plate app…

Twins: Ben Revere CF Jamey Carroll 2B Joe Mauer C Justin Morneau 1B Josh Willingham LF Ryan Doumit DH Trevor Plouffe 3B Darin Mastroianni RF Pedro Florimon SS (Scott Diamond P) Royals: Lorenzo Cain CF Alcides Escobar SS Alex Gordon LF Billy Butler DH Salvador Perez C Mike Moustakas 3B Jeff Francoeur RF Eric Hosmer 1B Johnny Giavotella 2B (Will Smith P)

Twins Lineup: Denard Span CF Darin Mastroianni RF Joe Mauer C Josh Willingham LF Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit DH Brian Dozier SS Trevor Plouffe 3B Jamey Carroll 2B SP: Scott Diamond

Blue Jays Lineup 1. Kelly Johnson, 2B 2. Yunel Escobar, SS 3. Jose Bautista, RF 4. Edwin Encarnacion, 1B 5. Ben Francisco, DH 6. Brett Lawrie, 3B 7. Colby Rasmus, CF 8. J.P. Arencibia, C 9. Rajai Davis, LF Ricky Romero, LHP Twins Lineup: 1. Denard Span, CF 2. Brian Dozier, SS 3. Joe Mauer, 1B 4. Josh Willingham, LF 5. Ryan Doumit, DH 6. Trevor Plouffe, 3B 7. Erik Komatsu, RF 8. Drew Butera, C 9. Jamey Carroll, 2B Scott Diamond, LHP

Gameday forecast: 72 deg, mostly cloudy 1%PoP Twins: SP, Correia lineup to come Red Sox: SP, Lackey Daniel Nava (S) LF Dustin Pedroia ® 2B David Ortiz (L) DH Mike Napoli ® 1B Grady Sizemore (L) CF Xander Bogaerts ® SS A.J. Pierzynski (L) C Will Middlebrooks ® 3B Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) RF Thank You ChiTown for the lineups!!! ChiTown and I are gonna team up on these Game Thread starters and see how it works. Thinks to thing about (Intentional juxtaposition): 1. Preseason -- Keep telling yourself over and over... It's only Pre-season. Players are still trying to find themselves... It's only Pre-season... It doesn't matter if the Twins are averaging 0.4 Runs…

Twins: Ben Revere CF Jamey Carroll 2B Joe Mauer DH Chris Parmelee 1B Trevor Plouffe 3B Matt Carson RF Chris Herrmann LF Drew Butera C Pedro Florimon SS (Esmerling Vasquez P) Blue Jays: Rajai Davis RF Colby Rasmus CF Brett Lawrie 3B Adam Lind 1B Yunel Escobar DH Kelly Johnson 2B Adeiny Hechavarria SS Jeff Mathis C Anthony Gose LF (Aaron Laffey P)

TWINS Aaron Hicks CF Eduardo Escobar SS Eduardo Nunez 3B Kennys Vargas DH Eddie Rosario LF Max Kepler 1B Shane Robinson RF Eric Fryer C James Beresford 2B Gibson, P JAYS Russell Martin C Dalton Pompey CF Josh Donaldson DH Daric Barton 1B Danny Valencia 3B Caleb Gindl RF Devon Travis 2B Ryan Goins SS Ezequiel Carrera LF Dickey, P

Cardinals are up 1-0 in the top of the 4th. Gibson appears to be pitching well, and is still out there. Twins: 1. Byron Buxton ® CF 2. Joe Mauer (L) 1B 3. Miguel Sano ® 3B 4. Max Kepler (L) RF 5. ByungHo Park ® DH 6. Jason Castro (L) C 7. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 8. Drew Stubbs ® LF 9. Eduardo Escobar (S) 2B Cardinals: 1. Kolten Wong (L) 2B 2. Aledmys Diaz ® SS 3. Randal Grichuk ® LF 4. Stephen Piscotty ® RF 5. Jedd Gyorko ® 3B 6. Tommy Pham ® CF 7. Chad Huffman ® 1B 8. Patrick Wisdom ® DH 9. Eric Fryer ® C

Twins: Span CF Revere RF Mauer DH Willingham LF Morneau 1B Doumit C Valencia 3B Dozer SS Casilla 2B (Not Francisco Liriano P) Indians: Choo RF Cabrera SS Santana DH Lopez 3B Brantley CF Duncan LF Marson C Kotchman 1B Lillibridge 2B (Jimenez P)

Sorry if this isnt the Right forum for this but i thought it was appropriate. I used to visit ESPN forums a lot and it used to be a lot of fun to make nicknames whenever somone posts the gamethread for the day. So in the spirit of that, post your nicknames for our players and i hope the creator for the gamethreads has fun with this Here my random day lineup: 1) spandemonium 2) lil general (revere) 3) mauer pauer 4) willinghammer 5) The big canuk 6) Doom 7) Bulldozier 8) Plouff it's gone 9) sing me a carroll Im sure you all can come up with better names than that!

Okay, everyone, listen up: The Twins take on Miami today at Miami. Hopefully, the trip will not wear too much on the hometown 9. Pitching for the Twins: Tyler Duffey And someone named Chen for Miami And, with that stuff out of the way, we go on to the usual stream of consciousness known as a "game thread." 1. There have been both a Chief and Riverbrian sighting. I guess they're both coming out of hibernation and checking out the lay of Twins baseball this year. I'm not sure how to interpret the shadows Chief and Brian cast, other than, well, it's Twins baseball. 2. Anyone seen Twinsnorth? Or does Vanimal have him locked up producing SWAG for the "Whine Line?" …

Is this one televised? Anyone watching? Beautiful day here. Lineups don’t matter as they’ll be changing every few innings so won’t post them. Maeda starts for probably one inning.

I heard tell today is talk like a pirate day on the radio. That true? Or was i a victim o' fake news? I always miss it, just as i almost always miss fluff fest celebrating the invention of marshmallow fluff as a food item. Does a game with an opener not really start until the second inning? Today's game thread is devoted to such deep questions... Line ups to follow, but we got a 4 run lead already so this should be posted sooner rather than later...

Here is the Twins lineup today against the Boston Red Sox: Denard Span CF Jamey Carroll SS Joe Mauer 1B Justin Morneau DH Josh Willingham RF Danny Valencia 3B Ryan Doumit C Ben Revere LF Alexi Casilla 2B Jason Marquis SP Bullpen will include: Terry Doyle, Alex Burnett, Jeff Manship, Kyle Waldrop, Jared Burton and Anthony Swarzak.

RAYS Jaso DH Rivera C Cabrera SS Longoria 3B Loney 1B Jennings LF Kiermaier CF Souza RF Beckham 2B Andriese, P TWINS Dozier 2B Escobar SS Mauer DH Vargas 1B Suzuki C Rosario LF Nunez 3B Robinson RF Hicks CF Gibson, P

Twins: Ben Revere CF Eduardo Escobar 2B Joe Mauer DH Justin Morneau 1B Ryan Doumit C Chris Parmelee RF Trevor Plouffe 3B Matt Carson LF Pedro Florimon SS (P.J. Walters P) White Sox: Dewayne Wise CF Kevin Youkilis 3B Adam Dunn DH Paul Konerko 1B Alex Rios RF A.J. Pierzynski C Dayan Viciedo LF Alexei Ramirez SS Gordon Beckham 2B (Jake Peavy P)

Here is the Twins lineup against the Orioles: Ben Revere LF Brian Dozier SS Joe Mauer C Justin Morneau DH Josh Willingham RF Chris Parmelee 1B Sean Burroughs 3B Luke Hughes 2B Joe Benson CF SP: Carl Pavano Orioles Xavier Avery CF Robert Andino SS Nick Johnson DH Nolan Reimold LF Wilson Betemit 3B Chris Davis 1B Ronny Paulino C Ryan Flaherty RF Matt Antonelli 2B SP: Wei-Yin Chen