Danny Valencia is back up with the Twins, with Trevor Plouffe on the DL and Danny is in the lineup tonight.
I haven’t been paying much attention to my Twitter feed today, so if there’s other news involving the Twins, I’m simply not aware of it.
Let’s see if our guys can put a second straight total effort out on the field tonight. Then again, it’s probably asking a bit much for Deduno to replicate Diamond’s performance from last night.
| INDIANS |
@ |
TWINS |
| Choo, RF | Span, CF | |
| Brantley, CF | Revere, RF | |
| Kipnis, 2B | Mauer, C | |
| Santana, C, C | Willingham, LF | |
| Hafner, DH | Morneau, 1B | |
| Damon, LF | Doumit, DH | |
| Kotchman, 1B | Valencia, 3B | |
| Hannahan, 3B | Dozier, SS | |
| Lillibridge, SS | Casilla, A, 2B | |
| _Masterson, P | _Deduno, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Cleveland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | x | 12 | 12 | 1 |
Big time offense from the Twins two nights in a row? I’m not well versed on the Book of Revelation, but I think maybe that’s a sign of the Apocalypse. Better be prepared. Just our luck, right? The Twins finally pull out of the cellar of the AL Central Division and the world comes to an end.
How do you score 12 runs on just the same number of hits? One way to do it is to go 8-12 with runners in scoring position. Four Twins drove in multiple runs. Ben Revere went 3-5 and Josh Willingham blasted his 27th home run of the season. But the offensive star was Alexi Casilla who had a double and a triple, both with runners on base, giving him 4 RBI on the night.
The Twins also got a second consecutive very good pitching performance from their starter as Sam Deduno went seven innings, giving up just one run and two hits while striking out six. If we wanted to pic nits, we might ask him to cut down on the five walks he issued, but we’re certainly not going to complain tonight.
For their efforts, Casilla and Deduno earn co-BOD awards!
