The Twins first evening game of the year… kind of nice that it’s still 60 degrees out there this evening!
Let’s see if we can’t do better against the Royals than we did against the A’s – who are legitimately really good this year. Anyone know if the Royals have better pitching than we do?
| Kansas City |
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Minnesota |
| Aoki, RF | Dozier, 2B | |
| Infante, 2B | Mauer, 1B | |
| Hosmer, 1B | Plouffe, 3B | |
| Butler, B, DH | Colabello, RF | |
| Gordon, A, LF | Kubel, LF | |
| Perez, S, C | Pinto, DH | |
| Moustakas, 3B | Suzuki, K, C | |
| Cain, L, CF | Hicks, CF | |
| Escobar, A, SS | Florimon, SS | |
| Chen, B, P | Gibson, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Kansas City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Minnesota | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | x | 10 | 11 | 0 |
Ten runs! again. That’s three times already this year that the Twins have racked up double digit runs. They managed to do that a total of six times all of last season. Kind of fun seeing all those runs on the board, isn’t it?
Kurt Suzuki and Chris Colabello both had two hits and Trevor Plouffe had three. Josmil Pinto went yard and Jason Kubel had a triple (?!).
It would be one of those games where choosing a BOD from among all those bats would be a tough call. But Kyle Gibson shrugged off a dicey first inning and pitched in to the seventh for his second win and longest outing of his career. That’s the kind of thing we’d like to see more of out of this starting staff and it’s enough to earn tonight’s BOD!
(We really need to get us a picture of Gibson in his Twins uniform soon.)
– JC