AAA Opening Day - Rochester @ Syracuse

[Seth Stohs]

The Red Wings open their season this afternoon against Bryce Harper and Syracuse. Here are the lineups:

 

Red Wings

Brian Dozier SS

Tsuyoshi Nishioka 2B

Joe Benson CF

Aaron Bates 1B

Rene Tosoni LF

Matt Carson RF

Brian Dinkelman DH

Michael Hollimon 3B

Drew Butera C

 

SP: PJ Walters

 

Corey Brown LF

Seth Bynum SS

Xavier Paul RF

Tyler Moore 1B

Bryce Harper CF

Jason Michaels DH

Mark Teahen 3B

Jhonatan Solano C

Jarrett Hoffpauir 2B

 

SP: Mitch Atkins

[Thrylos]

Other than Butera, this lineup is as good as any IL lineup.

[Seth Stohs]

Brian Dozier led off with a double... a batter later, Joe Benson walked.

 

PJ Walters, a scoreless first frame.

[Seth Stohs]

Top 3... Dozier singled, went to 2B on a walk and third on a groundout by Nishioka. Joe Benson walked. With two outs, Benson stole 2B, and Dozier scored on the catcher's throwing error. Aaron Bates walked.

 

End of 2 1/2 innings, Red Wings 1-0 lead.

[Mr. Ed]

Brian Dozier led off with a double... a batter later, Joe Benson walked.

 

PJ Walters, a scoreless first frame.

Nishioka pop out to first. Go ahead, note his outs> I expect a lot of them from him

 

Benson 2 walks already. encouraging.

[Seth Stohs]

PJ Walters with three scoreless innings, but 57 pitches already.

[Mr. Ed]

Carson leads off 3rd w/triple. Appears via Gameday to have been off CF fence.

[Mr. Ed]

Dinkleman/Hollimon fan, Dru pops to short. leadoff triple wasted.

[Seth Stohs]

PJ Walters with four shutout innings, two hits, two walks, four strikeouts... 71 pitches, just 43 strikes. Jeff Manship enters the game.

[Seth Stohs]

Matt Carson hsa a single, triple and double in his first three Red Wings at bats.

[Seth Stohs]

Drew Butera sac fly scores Carson to give the Red Wigns a 2-0 lead in the 6th.

[Mr. Ed]

Dinkleman scored on Butera sac fly to make it 2-0. Dinkleman got on after a FC/Teahan throwing error. Dozier walked in that inning, has been on base 3 times.

[Mr. Ed]

Nishioka is 0-3.

[Mr. Ed]

Tyler Robertson matches up lefty/lefty with Harper and fans him in the sixth, with a runner on.

[Mr. Ed]

Carson 4-4

 

Dinkleman triples in 2 4-0 Roch.

[Seth Stohs]

5-0... Clutch by Dinkelman, especially coming against a lefty.

[Mr. Ed]

Dru 2 run HR. 7-0

 

Gardy is probably on the phone with TRyan trying to get him called up.

[tobynotjason]

Ed literally took the words (re: Gardy phone call) out of my mouth/fingers.

[IowaHawkeyes]

7-4 Rochester ahead

[Mr. Ed]

Brendan Wise gave up a 2 run single and 2 run double in the 7th, 7-4 Roch.

[Mr. Ed]

Casey Fien with a 1-2-3 9th and Roch wins 7-4.

[woolhouse]

Good for Drew. He should be motivated to show the Twins he can improve his bat. I don't want him called up, but I'll admire that he went up to bat in Triple A after two seasons in the bigs and is doing what he can to try and make it back up.

[minn55441]

If the twins can hang around in the central throughout the summer, Drew would be a great September callup. He is a great late inning defensive replacement. We just have to make sure we aren't in a position to rely on his hitting.

[Shane Wahl]

Matt Carson was the guy I wanted the Twins to keep around as a power guy (unlike Burroughs). I like his first day a lot.