Roster moves all up in here!
The Twins have placed Samuel Deduno and Wilkin Ramirez on the 15-day DL and recalled Pedro Hernandez (yes, that same ineffective Pedro Hernandez) and Darin Mastroianni to take their places. Joe Mauer will remain on the 7-day concussion DL for a while longer, and there is really no reason to do much of anything with him as rosters expand on Sunday and then Ron Gardenhire can have any number of catchers on the active roster.
Tonight Twins fans will be treated to Yu Darvish vs. Liam Hendriks.
Go Twins!
| Twins |
@ |
Rangers |
| Dozier, 2B | Martin, L, CF | |
| Herrmann, C, C | Andrus, SS | |
| Morneau, 1B | Kinsler, 2B | |
| Willingham, LF | Beltre, A, 3B | |
| Doumit, DH | Pierzynski, C | |
| Plouffe, 3B | Rios, RF | |
| Thomas, C, CF | Moreland, 1B | |
| Mastroianni, RF | Profar, DH | |
| Florimon, SS | Murphy, Dv, LF | |
| _Hendriks, P | _Darvish, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| Texas | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
Just about all I read on Twitter today was about how the Twins and Liam Hendriks had NO chance to win against the mighty Texas Rangers and Yu Darvish.
So, imagine my surprise when I check the score after the Kernels’ game tonight and see the Twins and Hendriks beat the Rangers and Darvish.
How could that be?
Seems Mister Hendriks only gave up five hits in six innings and four members of the Twins’ bullpen combined to throw three shutout innings.
Meanwhile, Chris Herrmann and Justin Morneau had back to back home runs off of Darvish. True those home runs constituted 2/3 of the total hits Darvish gave up to the Twins, but so what?
I’m going to call Chris Herrmann the BOD for his two-run dinger. – JC
