After losing a couple million games in a row at home, the Twins are now on the verge of one of those… what are they called?… oh, yeah… winning streaks!
That’s what winning three games in a row would constitute.
But before we get ahead of ourselves, there’s a little matter of actually playing the game.
Josh Willingham is back in the number 6 spot in the batting order, so he should be good for two more home runs tonight, right?
Eduardo Escobar makes his first appearance in the line up in, well, longer than I can remember anyway. He’s playing third base instead of shortstop, however, and Trevor Plouffe is the DH.
Mike Pelfrey is on the hill for the Twins. His 4.97 ERA is roughly twice that of A’s starter Sonny Gray (2.51), so naturally with how backwards things have gone for the Twins lately, they should win this game handily.
| ATHLETICS |
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TWINS |
| Crisp, CF | Presley, CF | |
| Donaldson, 3B | Escobar, E, 3B | |
| Lowrie, SS | Dozier, 2B | |
| Moss, RF | Arcia, RF | |
| Cespedes, LF | Plouffe, DH | |
| Barton, 1B | Willingham, LF | |
| Smith, S, DH | Parmelee, 1B | |
| Vogt, C | Herrmann, C, C | |
| Sogard, 2B | Florimon, SS | |
| _Gray, S, P | _Pelfrey, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Oakland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 22 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
Well, that happened.
Hey Shairon Martis worked a 1-2-3 inning and struck out two batters!