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Honestly, it doesn’t get much more perfect in Minnesota for baseball than today. It’s just stunning out there… (so much so that I’ll be out working in the yard listening to the game rather than watching on TV indoors.. We’ve had way too few days like this and the plants are WAY behind schedule)

Today, we match up against King Felix. While his crown may have a touch of tarnish on it this season, he is certainly nothing to sneeze at and can really bring it to the mound. Nolasco is going to have to focus his skills to match – no half-assing it today – because the offense has their own job to do today and shouldn’t have to be there to cover his backside if he gives up anything extra in the run department.

But that being said, we have shown that our offense can match theirs so far this series which given our record doesn’t say much for them but is still fact. We can do this and win or lose, for every fan in Target Field, this will be a fantastic day of baseball.

Ok, so we didn’t win today precisely because we let too many Mariners get on base and couldn’t touch the King for more than we gave up… That is how that works with him quite often. We still won the series AND the home-stand so that’s better than I really have any reason to hope for this series – the truth hurts.

Twins announced after the game that they are sending Tonkin back down to AAA and bringing Chris Herrmann back up in preparation for the road trip and NL play. Yeah, we’re going to need the extra bat.

well it’s a heck of a lot nicer out there today than it was yesterday.. not a WHOLE lot warmer but the combo of 10 degrees and some actual sunshine sure does seem to be a monumental change.

Let’s see if Correia can’t go a little deeper into the game tonight and let the bullpen have a break. I wouldn’t mind if he figured out how to keep Ortiz off the bases too. Yeah, I’d like that.

Apparently David Ortiz likes hitting at Target Field. Or maybe he likes hitting against Twins pitching. Either way, I’ll be glad to see him leave. – JC

I would definitely like to see some great baseball this afternoon but .. I’m moving a piano into my house so I will likely only get to listen to the game, if that. I wouldn’t mind seeing a return to the pitching duel with Gibby out there – matching up great pitching with great pitching is a rare thing for us with Detroit so I think we should take full advantage of it.

Go Twins!

Kyle Gibson had another one of those “welcome to the Big Leagues” kind of days against the Tigers. On the other hand, his defense in the second inning did him no favors at all.

It was good to see Joe Mauer’s name at least in the line up again and someone who looks like him step in to the batters box. Now we just need to get the real Joe Mauer back.

Anthony Swarzak’s contributions should not go overlooked. He relieved Gibson to start the 3rd inning and proceeded to throw four shutout innings against what appears to be the best line up in the AL. Too bad the effort was wasted.

Hey, has anyone noticed that Eduardo Escobar is hitting .322 (small sample size) and Danny Santana is at .412 (smaller sample size)? – JC

Welcome to Breakfast Baseball – especially if you happen to be a west coast Twins fan.

This is the last game in this series in Cleveland and our boys’ chance to even things up – for this trip. In the broader picture of division match-up for the season, we still have the edge on the Indians but we can’t afford to give that up so go Twins!

Unfortunately, we’re getting even more bench pinching. Fuld is having issues with headaches and neck stiffness and yeah, they are checking him for concussion issues. Not sure where that leaves us but Gardy is going to have a few issues today.

Well that wasn’t any fun.. I really do put it down to lack of flexibility.. as in, there is a reason we have a 25 man active roster and not having 25 available players is highly problematic. The Twins are basically still hoping that Mauer will be able to play “tomorrow” and Fuld is now on the DL.. these are not good things and it leads to losing baseball games.

Another rubber match. I have to start trusting Nolasco at some point if he keeps doing well enough but .. not yet.

Still no Mauer and now EE in left field.. this could be interesting.

…that was a hard fought game actually – I don’t think the Twins have much to regret except that they didn’t come out on top –especially against a division opponent, that stings. When the walk-off was only possible because poor Escobar had one bad play in Left Field where he has very little experience? Yeah, he’s not feeling good about it either. I feel kind of bad for him.

We’ll have to see what happens in the final game of the series tomorrow.. for our west coast fans, you get breakfast baseball!