We’re back! Opening Day is just 23 days away and we need to kick off the snow and salt we’ve accumulated on our GameChats all winter. Tonight marks the first televised Fox Sports North broadcast of the year for the Minnesota Twins (game available locally on FSN+) so that seemed like a pretty good time to pull out the GameChat and get back into the swing of things. We’re putting the GameChat up an hour early tonight to give folks some time to catch up before the game starts.
If you’re a new reader at Knuckleballs, feel free to stop into the chat and say hello. We will have a GameChat up for every game of the regular season, so come back often and join us for some Twins chatter. Many of the regular folks that stop by (and JC and I) live outside of Minnesota’s boarders so the GameChats are an excellent opportunity for us to “talk shop” with other Twins fans. We’re creating a virtual neighborhood bar, and you can bring your own beverage!
The Twins still have a whole bunch of players off participating in the World Baseball Classic, so we will see some interesting line-ups over the next several days, and tonight is no exception.
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Boston Red Sox |
| Hicks, CF | Ellsbury, CF | |
| Dozier, 2B | Pedroia, 2B | |
| Willingham, DH | Sweeney, RF | |
| Doumit, C | Gomes, J, LF | |
| Plouffe, 3B | Nava, 1B | |
| Boggs, LF | Middlebrooks, 3B | |
| Benson, RF | Lavarnway, C | |
| Clement, 1B | Overbay, DH | |
| Florimon, SS | Iglesias, SS | |
| Pelfrey, P | Dempster, P |
PLAY BALL!
The first Boyfriend of the Day (BOD, the Knuckleballs version of MVP) award goes to Mike Pelfry for three scoreless inning in which he recorded five strike outs while allowing just two hits and one walk. The offense did just enough to give the Twins a win and the the boys from Minneapolis escaped with a 2-0 victory over the Red Sox.
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