No Joe Mauer tonight, and no DH either as the Twins are on the road in a National League park to take on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hopefully Scott Diamond throws well (and hits well, too!) tonight and gives the bullpen another day off.
Here are the lineups:
| Minnesota Twins |
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Pittsburgh Pirates |
| Span, CF | Tabata, LF | |
| Revere, RF | Harrison, RF | |
| Willingham, LF | McCutchen, A, CF | |
| Morneau, 1B | McGehee, 1B | |
| Plouffe, 3B | Walker, 2B | |
| Doumit, C | Alvarez, 3B | |
| Dozier, SS | Barajas, C | |
| Carroll, 2B | Barmes, SS | |
| Diamond, P | Correia, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| Pittsburgh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | x | 7 | 12 | 0 |
Not a good sign when you’ve got your “best” pitcher in the opening game of a series and you lose that game 7-2. Ah well, we’ll see how things go Wednesday night. – JC
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