First, the bad news: It was announced today that Scott Baker will have further cleanup surgery on bone spurs in his elbow and his season is over. Anyone else have a vague or not-so-vague feeling of deja vu?? This really sucks for both the team AND for Scott.
I think it would go a LONG way to helping the fans feel a bit better if they could actually WIN a game tonight.. just saying. And winning implies scoring runs. That would be MULTIPLE and MORE THAN THEM. Felt it necessary to be specific.
| LA Angels |
@ |
Minnesota |
| Aybar, SS | Span, CF | |
| Kendrick, H, 2B | Carroll, SS | |
| Pujols, 1B | Mauer, C | |
| Morales, K, DH | Morneau, DH | |
| Hunter, To, RF | Willingham, LF | |
| Wells, V, LF | Doumit, RF | |
| Callaspo, 3B | Valencia, 3B | |
| Iannetta, C | Parmelee, 1B | |
| Bourjos, CF | Casilla, A, 2B | |
| Weaver, P | Pavano, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| LA Angels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | x | 6 | 9 | 0 |
Our guys finally get a win!
Considering the pressure of being the last remaining team without a win, so many Twins came through in so many ways tonight that picking a Boyfriend of the Day was difficult.
Carl Pavano came within a fluke inside-the-park HR of pretty much shutting down the Angels. Jeff Gray took all of one pitch to work out of a potential scoring situation in relief of Pavstache in the 7th inning (and earning the “win” in the process). Glen Perkins was extremely impressive in his set up role during an 8th inning that ended with a strike out of Albert Pujols. And Matt Capps survived a Torii Hunter double in the 9th to rack up save number 1 on the season.
The bats finally woke up a bit, as well. Joe Mauer got the scoring started with an RBI single in the 4th inning and scored when Josh Willingham ripped his third home run of the season in the same inning, giving the Twins their first lead in any game this year. Chris Parmelee came through with a 7th inning triple that tied the game.
But in a close vote, Jamey Carroll gets our first BOD award of the season for providing the margin of victory with a two-out base hit to score Parmelee.
It’s a noon game on Thursday… would it be too much to ask for a mini winning streak? – JC
