Interesting lineup for Ron Gardenhire tonight. With Josh Willingham serving as the Twins’ DH tonight, Gardenhire had an opportunity to move Ben Revere into left field and move Trevor Plouffe into right field. Instead Gardy leaves Revere out in RF where his weak arm is most exposed, and sends Plouffe out to LF where his limited range could come into play. Perhaps Gardenhire is keeping Revere in RF to chase down liners and fly balls from the 5 left handed hitters in Detroit’s line-up, but a more likely scenario is Gardenhire keeping his guys where he likes them, not where it always makes the most sense to play them.
Either way, should be an interesting game. Here are the rest of the line ups:
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Minnesota Twins |
| Berry, CF | Span, CF | |
| Dirks, LF | Revere, RF | |
| Cabrera, Mi, 3B | Mauer, C | |
| Fielder, 1B | Willingham, DH | |
| Young, D, DH | Morneau, 1B | |
| Boesch, RF | Dozier, SS | |
| Peralta, Jh, SS | Plouffe, LF | |
| Avila, C | Casilla, A, 2B | |
| Raburn, 2B | Carroll, 3B | |
| _Smyly, P | _Swarzak, P |
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The Twins scored more than their fair share of runs tonight, but the pitching let them down for the second night in a row.Not a lot of positives in a game like this, but at least the Twins were not charged with an error, so that’s an improvement.
Back at it tomorrow.
-ERolfPleiss