I hope everyone is having a wonderful Independance Day and has had time to spend with friends and family to celebrate the holiday. I’m quickly inbetween the military appreciation services I did this morning and a barbeque this afternoon. So, I’m not going to be in the chat in the beginning but I hope that some of you may have the time in your day to watch a little baseball!
| Tampa Bay | @ | Minnesota |
| Zobrist, RF | Span, CF | |
| Crawford, LF | Hudson, O, 2B | |
| Longoria, 3B | Mauer, C | |
| Aybar, W, DH | Morneau, 1B | |
| Rodriguez, S, 2B | Kubel, RF | |
| Pena, C, 1B | Cuddyer, 3B | |
| Shoppach, C | Thome, DH | |
| Upton, B, CF | Young, D, LF | |
| Bartlett, SS | Hardy, SS | |
| Shields, J, P | Blackburn, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Tampa Bay | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
This afternoon just didn’t quite pan out the way I wanted. After a very full weekend where I haven’t even gotten the chance to see much baseball, I looked forward to finally getting an opportunity to sit down and watch the later innings of today’s game. Funny how that didn’t quite turn out to be the opportunity I thought it would be – I fell asleep!! Of course, the Twins also took that opportunity to lose their first series ever in Target Field. I’m sure that also wasn’t quite how they had anticipated this weekend going.
I think we are all going to really need the off-day tomorrow.