Ah… east coast games. I forget that they start earlier than I’m expecting. But that’s ok, it just means that we don’t have to be up late like the west coast games! I’m looking forward to seeing if we can’t do a better job against Baltimore on their turf than we did when they were on ours. Interestingly, the weather isn’t all that dissimilar then when they were in Minnesota. It is HOT and steamy in Baltimore right now. The evening game will probably feel better than batting practice did this afternoon – I hope!
I can’t help it because I’m an eternal optimist but I’m totally looking forward to seeing what Pavano has for us!
| Minnesota | @ | Baltimore |
| Span, CF | Pie, LF | |
| Hudson, O, 2B | Tejada, 3B | |
| Mauer, DH | Markakis, RF | |
| Kubel, RF | Scott, DH | |
| Cuddyer, 1B | Wigginton, 1B | |
| Young, D, LF | Jones, A, CF | |
| Hardy, SS | Moore, S, 2B | |
| Punto, 3B | Tatum, C | |
| Butera, C | Izturis, C, SS | |
| Pavano, P | Millwood, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| Baltimore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
ANOTHER WIN!!
Wow, that was a crazy game of drama – and interestingly enough, we didn’t cause ANY of it! There were MULTIPLE ejections, players & managers in the faces of more than one ump, and then there was the idiot fan on the field. He really held things up but it was pretty ridiculous given how long it took the security staff to get to him. He finally gave up and waited for them to tell him where to go after the homeplate ump finally went out to him and told him to stop. Really?!?! Doesn’t it seem like there should be some sort of happy medium between Philadelphia and Baltimore? Yeesh…
But, of course, as Twins fans, the real story of the game was Carl Pavano! Back to back complete game shutouts will do more to inflame a mustache fad than the Village People. It’s a thing of beauty how efficient he is out on the mound and Twins fans definitely appreciate the presence of a rock in the turbulent waters of our starting rotation. For that, the gamechat awarded Pavano today’s BOD and Delmon & Cuddy can celebrate with pastries.. pace yourselves boys, you are getting a lot of baked good lately so you should keep an eye on your diet!
