Happy Easter!
Clearly the holiday has all of us Knuckleballers with our attention focused elsewhere but now that I have services done, brunch with the inlaws and the turkey in the oven, I can actually spend a little time with baseball – and feeding baby.
A quick roster update that happened just before the game started: the Twins have claimed Sam Fuld off of waivers from the A’s and DFA’d Darin Mastrioanni – which leaves the Twins a little short on the bench today but that is what happens when you need room on the 40 man.
| Minnesota | @ | Kansas City |
| Dozier, 2B | Aoki, RF | |
| Mauer, 1B | Infante, 2B | |
| Plouffe, 3B | Hosmer, 1B | |
| Colabello, RF | Perez, S, C | |
| Kubel, LF | Gordon, A, LF | |
| Pinto, DH | Butler, B, DH | |
| Suzuki, K, C | Moustakas, 3B | |
| Hicks, CF | Maxwell, CF | |
| Escobar, E, SS | Escobar, A, SS | |
| Hughes, P, P | Ventura, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 0 |
| Kansas City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
I started listening to the game about the time Phil Hughes was exiting, so I’m going to assume his first six innings of work were better than his last 2 hitters in the 7th inning.
In any event, the Twins move back up to .500 on the season with a 9-9 record, so I’ll take that performance from Hughes and the bullpen.
The story of the day looks like it was offense today, anyway, and a brief scan of the boxscore shows Trevor Plouffe with two doubles and a triple, as well as some RBI. Sounds like BOD material to me! – JC
