Article: Twins vs Red Sox, 08-02-2012, 6:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

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[Brock Beauchamp]

Twins:

Span CF

Revere RF

Willingham DH

Morneau 1B

Doumit LF

Valencia 3B

Dozier SS

Butera C

Casilla 2B

(Deduno P)

 

Red Sox:

Ellsbury CF

Crawford LF

Pedroia 2B

Gonzalez 1B

Ross DH

Lavarnway C

Middlebrooks 3B

Kalish RF

Ciriaco SS

(Lester P)

[Mahukey]

Rocketpig, what is the story with Mauer... Is he ok?

[DaveW]

Rocketpig, what is the story with Mauer... Is he ok?

Most likely just a day off, Mauer has been playing nearly every day for a while and he has started to struggle a bit (past 3-4 games)

[Brock Beauchamp]

Yeah, the Twins haven't had a day off in awhile and I assume that Mauer is just taking a day off to rest.

[stringer bell]

So we have Casilla as the Latin whisperer along with Drew?

[CDog]

Joe C at StarTrib said in his lineup write up that Gardenhire said even during the last series (or over the weekend) that Mauer would get a day off on the road trip. Shouldn't be cause for alarm. (Oh please, oh please, oh please...with apologies to Gary Larson for using his material.)

[stringer bell]

Most likely just a day off, Mauer has been playing nearly every day for a while and he has started to struggle a bit (past 3-4 games)

Mauer didn't have a very good series against the WSox. Giving him a day vs. a tough lefty isn't a bad thing. Besides, Gardy said that he wanted Butera to play pretty soon (ugh!).

[GCTF]

Suck it, Lestah.

[Top Gun]

September can't come soon enough so we can have a expanded roster.

[GCTF]

Drew, whispering up a storm of epic proportions thus far.

[mikeee]

And getting out.

[Highabove]

Drew just advanced a runner at 724pm central standard time

[Craig Arko]

Of course he's also calling a one hit shutout from a wild pitcher through five innings.

[glunn]

Of course he's also calling a one hit shutout from a wild pitcher through five innings.

I agree and I would submit that Deduno and Butera deserve a lot of praise for their performances tonight.

[GCTF]

Ruh-roh...2 straight reach base.

 

 

Psst, psst, psst, psst.

[snepp]

Drewduno!

[snepp]

Every time Dickbert talks about Drew somewhere a kitten is killed.

[Craig Arko]

Ruh-roh...2 straight reach base.

 

 

Psst, psst, psst, psst.

And three outs to go with it.

 

If Deduno ever got that fastball across the plate a lot of people could de-angst about Liriano.

[glunn]

 

If Deduno ever got that fastball across the plate a lot of people could de-angst about Liriano.

Including me.

[GCTF]

Every time Dickbert talks about Drew somewhere a kitten is killed.

I've got the Sawks announcers tonight, they don't even acknowledge his exsistance.

 

Though, I admit I'm not sure what Jerry Remy is saying half the time.

[TheLeviathan]

Blyleven has prounced his name 80 different ways.

 

Did I just hear DeDoumit?

[Highabove]

Can you imagine, your looking at slop the whole game and Perkins comes in, and starts buzzing 97mph fast balls under your chin.

[NorthwestTwinsFan]

Good game, Mastroianni.

[TheLeviathan]

I'm going to periodically talk crap about Dozier more often on here. Seems to work well for the kid.

[Highabove]

Now a non save situation

 

Get Gray up in the Bullpen.

[GCTF]

Perkins, now unavailable for a week.

[NorthwestTwinsFan]

Perkins, now unavailable for a week.

Yeah, Perkins pitching here makes about as much sense as Jeff Gray pitching in a tie game in the ninth. Don't the Twins have mop-up guys for exactly this type of situation?

[snepp]

Don't the Twins have mop-up guys for exactly this type of situation?

They do, he mopped up the 9th the other night.

[NorthwestTwinsFan]

They do, he mopped up the 9th the other night.

Touché