Ouch, gotta love these west coast games… I’m sure our west coastie fans LOVE finally having games AFTER they get home from work but us poor midwesterners have had to wait sooooooo long for our baseball! Of course, today we had plenty to keep us busy I’m betting – at least I did.
So, lineup news: the update on ‘Lando is that things aren’t as scary as they looked last night. He’s sore but scans found no new damage and he’s likely to fly out and join the team tomorrow. No word on how soon he’ll play but it’s probably a shorter period off than JJ had with his bone bruise. The interesting side-effect is that instead of putting Lexi out there at 2B, it’s Cuddy. Now this could be fun/tense/entertaining/scary!
| Minnesota | @ | Seattle |
| Span, CF | Suzuki, I, RF | |
| Hardy, SS | Figgins, 2B | |
| Mauer, C | Gutierrez, F, CF | |
| Morneau, 1B | Bradley, LF | |
| Thome, DH | Sweeney, M, DH | |
| Cuddyer, 2B | Lopez, J, 3B | |
| Kubel, RF | Wilson, Jo, SS | |
| Young, D, LF | Johnson, Ro, C | |
| Punto, 3B | Tuiasosopo, M, 1B | |
| Liriano, P | Fister, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| Seattle | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
So Cuddy didn’t embarrass himself or anything at 2B although this was obviously not are BEST defensive arrangement of players. Sure tried to make things interesting at the end too! But it’s nice to start with a win. I believe we have consensus amongst game watchers that the white hats with the gray unis REALLY sucks. Not a good combo and makes the laundry guys look bad.
Chat awarded the BOD to Justin Morneau for breakdancing in the top of the 9th. Oh wait, not quite but he did do an awful lot of mashing of the ball and some FANTASTIC defense at 1B definitely earned the recognition even with the entertainment on the basepaths. All-you-can-eat pastries for the other long ball hitters.
