Look at that, would ya? A REAL outfield!
Yes, I know, Josh Willingham and Oswaldo Arcia won’t make anyone’s list of ‘best defensive outfielders’ in MLB baseball, but at least neither of them have spent the past 10 years making a living playing shortstop.
More importantly, we’d like to hope that the arrival of Willingham and Arcia will mean fewer games where the Twins try to get by on 3-4 hits for an entire game.
I’ve got plans for the day, so I won’t be around to see or hear the game, but let’s hope our guys can put the weekend road sweep behind them and start a little winning streak of their own. – JC
| Texas | @ | Minnesota |
| Choo, DH | Dozier, 2B | |
| Andrus, SS | Mauer, 1B | |
| Moreland, 1B | Plouffe, 3B | |
| Beltre, A, 3B | Arcia, O, RF | |
| Rios, A, RF | Willingham, LF | |
| Gimenez, C | Kubel, DH | |
| Martin, L, CF | Suzuki, K, C | |
| Choice, LF | Hicks, CF | |
| Odor, 2B | Escobar, E, SS | |
| Tepesch, P | Correia, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| San Francisco | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | x | 8 | 12 | 1 |
yeah we have definitely played better baseball on Memorial Day..
The biggest news for today is that Hicks is officially dropping the switch hitting label – he is going to be a righty only. Given his split stats, that’s probably a good idea.