Does this game start earlier tonight? It appears so.
Regardless, here are tonight’s lineups.
| Minnesota | San Diego | |
| Dozier, 2B | Cabrera, E, SS | |
| Mauer, 1B | Smith, S, LF | |
| Plouffe, 3B | Headley, 3B | |
| Parmelee, RF | Alonso, 1B | |
| Suzuki, K, C | Gyorko, 2B | |
| Kubel, LF | Venable, RF | |
| Escobar, E, SS | Maybin, CF | |
| Hicks, CF | Rivera, R, C | |
| Hughes, P, P | Ross, T, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| San Diego | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
Hey this winning thing is kind of fun, isn’t it? Sure, 80% of Twins fans don’t really find out about the win until the following day when it all takes place after normal people head to bed, but it’s still a W.
Only 4 hits for the Twins, so it’s tough to find a lot of offensive heroes, but Chris Parmelee’s RBI single in the 6th got the Twins on the board and Trevor Plouffe had half the team’s hits, including a HR for an insurance run in the 8th.
But BOD honors go to Phil Hughes, who contributed another excellent start. 7 innings.of shutout moundwork, 7 hits, no walks and 7 Ks. Nice.
And in honor of this achievement taking place in a National League park where Hughes had to borrow a helmet and bat three times, we have a picture I took proving he actually got some practice using the bat during spring training in March.
