Written by so.. Phil Hughes has kind of been on a roll lately – he’s trying for win #17 this season. I would love to see him not quite get there.
Of course, that means our offense will have to do something about that..
and who knows what we’ll get from Vasquez up against the Yankee lineup.
Let’s try this again. It might really be a good idea to win this game tonight because I don’t think we want to rely on the chances of beating Captain Cheeseburger on Wednesday to avoid a Yankee series sweep.
If there was any roster news today, I’m unaware of it… just haven’t been in the loop on news today, sorry. – JC
| NY Yankees |
@ |
Minnesota |
| Jeter, SS | Span, CF | |
| Suzuki, I, RF | Revere, LF | |
| Rodriguez, Al, 3B | Mauer, C | |
| Cano, DH | Morneau, 1B | |
| Swisher, 1B | Doumit, DH | |
| Granderson, CF | Parmelee, RF | |
| Martin, C | Plouffe, 3B | |
| Ibanez, LF | Carroll, 2B | |
| Nix, J, 2B | Florimon, SS | |
| Hughes, P, P | Vasquez, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| NY Yankees | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | x | 5 | 8 | 0 |
Yes, I know the Twins have lost 90 games and are playing out the season, but it’s still fun to beat the Yankees, right?
Esmerling Vasquez threw a nice six innings of baseball. The bullpen wasn’t perfect tonight, but they managed to keep things from getting out of control long enough for the bats in the lineup to put together a four-run 7th inning and hang on for a 5-4 Twins win.
Denard Span had a big two-out double in that inning, followed by an RBI single by Joe Mauer. Mauer had three hits in the game. I was apparently the only person in GameChat still awake at the end of the game and I couldn’t decide between the two for the BOD award so we’re going to let them split it. – JC
Denard Span
