There may not be much to play for the rest of the season, but taking a series from the BitchSox at the (Prison) Cell in Chicago would still be nice. Yes, I realize that there isn’t a lot of optimism when Kevin Correia is on the hill, but one can hope, right?
The Twins are an even 3-3 on this road trip, so they also could record their second straight winning road trip with a W today.
| TWINS |
@ |
WHITE SOX |
| Dozier, 2B | De Aza, LF | |
| Carroll, 3B | Beckham, G, 2B | |
| Mauer, C | Ramirez, Al, SS | |
| Morneau, 1B | Dunn, A, 1B | |
| Willingham, DH | Konerko, DH | |
| Arcia, LF | Garcia, A, RF | |
| Colabello, RF | Gillaspie, 3B | |
| Thomas, C, CF | Flowers, C | |
| Bernier, SS | Tekotte, CF | |
| _Correia, P | _Quintana, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| Chi White Sox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
It’s easy to tell this game was played at the bandbox of a ballpark they have in Chicago and not Target Field. Brian Dozier got the Twins on the board first with a three-run home run and two hitters later Joe Mauer added a two-run dinger. Casey Fien gave up a couple of solo home runs in the Sox’ ninth inning. No way all those home runs happen if this game is in Minneapolis.
Despite the one inning of heroics by a couple of Twins hitters, the BOD award goes to Kevin Correia, who went seven shutout innings while giving up just five hits and 1 walk. He even struck out seven Sox hitters. I’m not sure where Correia found this performance, but I hope he remembers how he did it!
