For those of you are are still planning to watch baseball instead of football today, you will be treated to Gardy’s version of getaway day lineups when … pretty much every other lineup is already like that. Let’s hope that Scott Diamond has something to work with today. Since I’m a Vikings fan too, I will get to see TWO major underdogs hit the turf today. Could be interesting.
| Minnesota |
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Detroit |
| Repko, RF | Jackson, A, CF | |
| Plouffe, SS | Ordonez, RF | |
| Mauer, DH | Young, D, LF | |
| Hughes, L, 3B | Cabrera, Mi, 1B | |
| Parmelee, 1B | Martinez, V, DH | |
| Benson, CF | Raburn, 2B | |
| Tosoni, LF | Peralta, Jh, SS | |
| Tolbert, 2B | Inge, 3B | |
| Butera, C | Santos, C | |
| Diamond, P | Fister, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Detroit | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | 2 | 9 | 0 |
At least it wasn’t a shutout. Not much offense to write about, but after a slow start, Scott Diamond did a nice job and Jim Hoey threw two shutout innings. Chris Parmelee flashed a little leather, too. In the end, though, another loss and another sweep. Then again, the Red Wings lost 90+ games in AAA, so it’s not surprising they’re struggling to win in the AL, too. – JC