And we’re back to baseball!! err.. almost. Once again, it appears there may be a slight delay to the start of the game but it should go through fairly quickly and should be clear to go after that.. maybe.. it’s Minnesota so it could change..
News over the week is that Capps has been re-instated. Now that he’s off the DL, the Twins optioned Kyle Waldrop back down to AAA to make room. Reportedly, he’ll ease back into his full workload by doing setup work instead of closing for a bit. There’s also rumors out there that he might be moving to the Blue Jays but that’s not something I can substantiate for you right now.
Let’s hope that the boys are all ready to get back to baseball and are ready to up their game for the second half. That would be fun… I hope that we have the good Frankie tonight!
| Oakland |
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Minnesota |
| Crisp, CF | Span, CF | |
| Weeks, 2B | Revere, RF | |
| Reddick, RF | Mauer, DH | |
| Cespedes, DH | Willingham, LF | |
| Carter, 1B | Morneau, 1B | |
| Gomes, J, LF | Plouffe, 3B | |
| Norris, C | Dozier, SS | |
| Inge, 3B | Butera, C | |
| Hicks, SS | Carroll, 2B | |
| Griffin, P | Liriano, P |
| Oakland | ||||||||||||
| Minnesota |
If rumors are to be believed (which is always a tenuous concept at best) Matt Capps is not the only Twins pitcher who may have a different uniform tomorrow morning. Word is that this may very well have been Liriano’s last game as a Twin. Boy did he make it a doozy. He made people ponder Santana’s single game strike out record and watch to see if he could get there. He didn’t but 15 k’s is NOTHING to sneeze at. Sadly, in what seems to be the eternal dichotomy of Franky’s performances, he gave up enough runs to get the loss anyway. Of course we’ll let you know if there is more news coming sooner or later but for the first game back, I was hoping for a little better.