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Minnesota needed a win tonight to secure the series victory over the Chicago White Sox. Facing arguably the worst starter for the Southsiders they were pretty heavy favorites. Even with his home run tendencies Nova kept the ball in the yard, did not get burned by the top of the Twins lineup, and earned the victory in a rather lifeless effort from the opposition.Box Score Perez: 6.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 4 K 64% strikes (64-100) Bullpen: 2.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K Home Runs: None Multi-Hit Games: Buxton (2-for-3, R, 2B) Top WPA: Polanco .093, Buxton .028 Perez Solid but Not Dominant The past few turns through the rotation have been pretty back and forth for the Twins lefty. After posting a strong outing against the New York Mets 10 days ago the New York Yankees beat him around last time out. Tonight Martin gave Minnesota a quality turn going six innings, allowing seven hits, and giving up three earned runs. Chicago never put two runs across in any inning against the Twins starter and Perez left down just two runs. Unfortunately Minnesota’s bats struggled to get anything going and came up empty in an early bases loaded situation as well. Next time out he’ll look to post back-to-back quality starts for the first time since May 6. Nova Neutralizes the Bomba Squad Facing the White Sox best pitcher and then their youngest one the last two nights, Minnesota sent baseballs into the Chicago sky at an alarming pace. Nova came into tonight with a 5.49 ERA and a 1.7 HR/9. Somehow the only run he gave up was unearned and Ivan didn’t let the ball leave the yard. Nelson Cruz was looking to homer in a sixth straight game and not only did he fail to do so off of Nova, but Ivan held Minnesota batters to just two hits. Sometimes baseball makes very little sense, and this lineup being shut down by this pitcher doesn’t add up. Tonight Nova came out on top. Romo Incoming During the game news broke that the Minnesota Twins have acquired Sergio Romo from the Miami Marlins. It has been confirmed that he’ll be with the team tomorrow despite the Twins upcoming trip to Miami. While the 40 man roster has openings there will need to be a 25-man roster move made. Cody Stashak was the most recent relief promotion from Triple-A and he did work an inning tonight in Chicago. It would seem to make some sense that he’d be the guy optioned back to Rochester in order to get Romo in the pen. Derek Falvey almost certainly will be making other moves, but this was a good one to get the ball rolling. Postgame With Baldelli Bullpen Usage Spreadsheet Click here for a review of the number of pitches thrown by each member of the bullpen over the past five days. Click here to view the article