Game 41 - Twins @ White Sux - 5/22/12

[Parker Hageman]

Per LaVelle Neal's twitter feed, here is tonight's Twins lineup:

 

(1) Denard Span - CF

(2) Ben Revere - RF

(3) Joe Mauer - C

(4) Josh Willingham - LF

(5) Justin Morneau - 1B

(6) Ryan Doumit - DH

(7) Brian Dozier - SS

(8) Alexi Casilla - 2B

(9) Jamey Carroll - 3B

(P) PJ Walters

[Seth Stohs]

Great to see Doumit in the lineup! Hopefully his calf is alright!!! I definitely like the lineup 1-7 and 9!

[Top Gun]

Why has cws pitching been so good?

[Bark's Lounge]

White Sox... nice. It would be nice to see Span and Revere get on base a few times tonight and run around a bit, cause some chaos.

[Mr. Ed]

Why has cws pitching been so good?

A real pitching coach

[Mr. Ed]

Why has cws pitching been so good?

Or they don't believe in signing a ton of re-treads every year. Only Humber this year and he's had one good outing.

 

And they don't believe in pitching to impact.

[stringer bell]

This is the guy Cuddy stole three bases on in one game last year. With Span, Revere, Carroll, and Casilla, there are guys to swipe bases if the game is close and they are getting on base.

[James]

This is the guy Cuddy stole three bases on in one game last year. With Span, Revere, Carroll, and Casilla, there are guys to swipe bases if the game is close and they are getting on base.

Why wait until the game is close if you can run all over the place on him? I say start it off right away if you can.

[J-Dog Dungan]

The Twins have the perfect guy to get back to their winning ways against. Gavin Floyd's line v. the Twins: 4-10, 5.67 ERA. Reason why Casilla is in the lineup: in 17 AB, he has a .412 BA v. Floyd. Other Twins hitting well against Floyd: Mauer-38 AB, .421 BA, 3 HR; Span-26 AB, .500 BA; Willingham-5 AB, .400 BA; Morneau-26 AB, .231 BA, 2 HR (Morneau doesn't have a great avg, but he does have two HR's); Revere-7 AB, .286 BA; Carroll-13 AB, .308 avg. Dozier and Doumit are the only two Twins who haven't faced Floyd before, and therefore have had no chance to rack up gaudy numbers versus him.

 

The only two White Sox player that have faced Walters is Kosuke Fukudome and Dunn

[stringer bell]

Why wait until the game is close if you can run all over the place on him? I say start it off right away if you can.

Sure. That is correct. Run in the early innings, run later in the day if the game is still close. Hopefully, the Twins get opportunities throughout the whole game.

[CDog]

Great to see Doumit in the lineup! Hopefully his calf is alright!!! I definitely like the lineup 1-7 and 9!

I fully expect a "take that!" performance from AC for that!

[CDog]

Why wait until the game is close if you can run all over the place on him? I say start it off right away if you can.

Don't most games start pretty close?

[Vegeta]

Hoping the Twins jump on em early.

[Vegeta]

Looks like Floyds fastball is tailing away from the lefties.

[IdahoPilgrim]

Well, that didn't take too long. Could be a long night for Walters

[Alex]

2nd inning AB for Dozier might have been his ugliest of the season. Everyone's entitled, though.

[Pitz]

Living in Chicago, this is the first game I've actually been able to watch on TV. Unfortunately it means I have to listen to Hawk Harrelson and Steve Stone - sometimes humorous with how painfully awful they are.

Nice 2ndinning going for the Twins

[J-Dog Dungan]

I did read somewhere that the Twins, especially Gardy, were expecting Walters to have a little trouble with the gopher ball, because, according to Gardy, the way he attacks the strike zone. But never mind that now, Casilla has continued his good hitting against Floyd by doubling and scoring two runs! And then, next batter, Carroll singles in Casilla and then takes 2nd on the throw! Go Twins!

[Guest USAFChief]

Did the Sox sign Marquis last night and throw him in the rotation?

[J-Dog Dungan]

Carroll scores from 3rd after a wild pitch gets him to 3rd and a single from Span drives him in.

[J-Dog Dungan]

Span uses te speed and steals 2nd; there's te SB that we all thought was coming. Now if only Mauer could knock him in........or Willingham (Mauer walks)

[snepp]

There are few things in life that cheer me up faster than the Twins leading over the White Sox.

[mnfireman]

What does the "AFW" on the back of the mound stand for? Not important, just wondering.

[J-Dog Dungan]

From the Gameday "Scout": "That was pitch #45 for Floyd; his effectiveness may start slipping, as he holds batters to a .217 average in his first 45 pitches, then they start hitting .254 off him after that. (not that he already wasn't effective, lolol

[Vegeta]

Twins brought their pimp sticks tonight

[J-Dog Dungan]

Line for the Twins through 2 innings against Floyd: 11 AB, 5 H, 2 BB, 4 runs. It appears that the White Sox transplanted the pitching ability of Marquis into Floyd for tonite's game.

[J-Dog Dungan]

After handing Floyd a long second, the Twins should have been able to do better than get out in only 12 pitches.

[Alex]

Yuck. Off night for Dozier. Hopefully he'll figure it out tonight yet.

 

Edit: Wow, terrible call on the lead off walk for Walters.

[J-Dog Dungan]

A) How does Konerko keep putting up these monster numbers during the first half of the season and I hope that the Twins pitchers can shut Dunn down in this series and he can go back to the BA he deserves: .215

[J-Dog Dungan]

Seems like these White Sox are getting some solid line drives, but they are all right at Twins players; luck like that never lasts. :/