Today's Twins Lineup:

 

Denard Span CF

Jamey Carroll SS

Rya Doumit C

Justin Morneau DH

Josh Willingham LF

Sean Burroughs 1B

Danny Valencia 3B

Luke Hughes 2B

Lance Ray RF

 

SP: Francisco Liriano

 

BENCH: Ben Revere, Chris Parmelee, Dan Rohlfing, Andy Leer, Jhonathan Goncalves

Lance Ray?

Here's Tampa's lineup per LaVelle:

Desmond Jennings, CF

Luke Scott, DH

Evan Longoria, 3B

Ben Zobrist, RF

Carlos Pena, 1B

Jeff Keppinger, 2B

Jose Molina, C

Jeff Salazar, LF

Sean Rodriguez, SS

David Price, LHP

You know, Lance Ray. Popular band in the 90s. Sang "Fly", "Every Morning" and "Someday".

You know, Lance Ray. Popular band in the 90s. Sang "Fly", "Every Morning" and "Someday".

 

"Shut the door baby, don't say a word".....Priceless.

We have a popular band out in right field for this game? lol

It should be Plouffe.

I would like to see Frank have one more nice outing today. It would give us some hope for the starting pitching going into the opening weekend....

Liriano needs to stop walking the leadoff hitter...

LaVelle reports that Chris Parmelee is now in for Burroughs who "tweaked" his back getting off the bus today (and is expected to be fine).

Liriano needs to stop walking the leadoff hitter...

At least he picked him off after letting him on.

 

0-0 after one inning.

Ray is there, Plouffe getting extra at bats in minor league game.

Twins turn a double play to end the inning.

0-0 after 2.

 

I thought I read somewhere they had not had a double play all pre-season.

Is that right?

No Casila at second for this one.

Ray is there, Plouffe getting extra at bats in minor league game.

I see that in LaVelle's article now. Ray is a minor leaguer. I was confused because I'd

never seen himon the roster before.

Ray with a key error. 2 of 3 runs unearned vs Liriano. 7k's

 

Twins 1 hit thru 5

Valencia 2 hits, including solo HR 3-1 TB

Burton 1-2-3 sixth

 

2 flyouts and a K

Parmelee sac fly w/bases loaded in the7th, 3-2 TB

And Valencia ties it with a rbi single, 3rd hit of the day.

What was Liriano's final line?

Maloney comes in, gives up leadoff HR to Sean Rodriguez

 

4-3 TB

What was Liriano's final line?

5IP 7H/3R/1ER/BB/7K

 

 

Maloney walked 2 guys in the 7th after the HR,and struck out Carlos Pena to end the7th.

4-3 Rays

Lance Ray goes yard, trying to atone for an error.

 

4-4

Span double, Andy Leer Triple.

 

Twins 5-4

Lance Ray has one of the sweetest swings I have seen. He'll play RF and 1B for Ft. Myers this year. He had 15 homers last year in Beloit.

 

Andy Leer was the 25th round pick in 2010 out of the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND.

Lance Ray has one of the sweetest swings I have seen. He'll play RF and 1B for Ft. Myers this year. He had 15 homers last year in Beloit.

 

Andy Leer was the 25th round pick in 2010 out of the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND.

He had an e today, and i remember he had quite a few in the OF last year too.

 

Hoping he can overcome that. Had some good months in lo-A last year after a slow start.

1-2-3 8th for Perkins, 5-4 to the 9th.

He had an e today, and i remember he had quite a few in the OF last year too.

 

Hoping he can overcome that. Had some good months in lo-A last year after a slow start.

Yeah, I woudln't say he's a better than average outfielder, for sure. E's happen to everyone, so I can't say he's bad because he had an error, but he's definitely more of a hitter than a fielder. Has a good, accurate arm.

Did Hughes really move over to SS? Interesting.

 

I like Lance Ray. Total breakout candidate this year.

Hughes really hit a homer!