The Twins are favorites but remember, it is ONE GAME…..anything can happen in one game.

Scott Baker and Curtis Granderson….two of my favorite players

Ugh. Tolbert at third. He’s a good utility player but the ghosts of Gary Gaetti and Corey Koskie are offended.

Baker looks pretty good so far….a couple of lazy flies and a strikeout. Fastball looks like it has some movement high in the zone.

If I were managing the Twins, I think I would have gone with an outfield of Span/Gomez/Young, with Kubel as the DH today.

A couple of ground balls, then a Mauer double to center.

Gawd I love Joe Mauer.

first inning, 0-0.

Remember my prediction yesterday….Twins 6, Tigers 4…..Porcello gets through the first three innings fine then the wheels fall off in the fourth.

Hard hit double by Cabrera, bloop hit from Raburn.

Now Inge up. Double play? Maybe…though Baker is a fly ball guy

Inge nailed it but right at Cabrera.

It looks to me like Baker isn’t really fooling people right now.

Good question. I haven’t thought about Granderson’s future.

baker got out of it with the popup.

As for Granderson….lions1 you seem like you’ve got all the numbers laid out there well. I’d prefer the way he was a couple of years ago personally.

Delmon looked bad there against the high fastball….there’s another guy to think about, what happens to Delmon? Does his second half performance presage a 2010 breakout?

Whiffs….Jose Morales. Looking good so far for Porcello….his second inning was much stronger than Baker’s.

for sure

Does anyone thing a great performance today could win him the ROY?

1-0 Tigers Magglio with an RBI single

Crap. Well there’s 3 runs for the Tigers. My prediction is still possible, lol.
 
Darling seems OK. He’s only lapsed into “this guy is a winner” cliches a couple of times.

i’ve never cheered so hard for a division rival in my life right now.

How I wish the Twins had a real third baseman.

C’mon Tolbert

Why does Jim Leyland remind me of a “King of the Hill” character?

Porcello fans Kubel to end the threat. 3-1 Tigers.

I think this one is going to have several more nail-biting moments.

OK for my prediction to come true, Porcello has to have the wheels come off here in the 4th inning.

Well never mind that. He looks great. So much for the low strikeout rate today.

Porcello looking great threw 4 so far

needing to be up lifted by a sports team. They go over board with this stuff all the time.

3-2 on the Kubel homer. Not over yet.

5 2/3 2 runs, 1 eraned, and 8 K’s

Porcello out for Zach Miner. Hmmmmmm

You could certainly see Porcello’s tremendous talent in this game. He hasn’t put everything together yet, but all-told, considering the jump from A-ball, you have to be very impressed with what he achieved this year.

Looking forward, can he 1) avoid injury 2) domimate more consistently?

cause you know he’s gonna come up swingin it…

(Morales on deck, hasn’t looked very good last couple days)

!?!?!?!?!

The best they have is Matt Tolbert????

Matt Tolbert. UGH>

I pointed out the lack of a real third baseman earlier.

Crede, Morneau, Slowey, Perkins, Bonser, Neshek

thats 3/5 of our starting rotation out too…. (Liriano or Bonser)

watching the tigers let Baker off the hook after running his PC up early.

A run here would be really big. No one Id rather have up then Polanco

Got out of that one.

Score some runs Twins!

Someone needs to write “A History of Minnesota Twins Utility Infielders” from Ron Washington through Al Newman to Jeff Reboulet to Nick Punto" These guys always seem to play a lot.

WOW!!!!!

Orlando Cabrera!!!

Why on earther would you keep Miner in when he has been awful from the start.

If the LOOGY strategy was banned, it would cripple the US economy since advertising revenue during baseball broadcasts would decline 97%

A bargain! lol

Wow. Really could go either way.

Still holding out for the 6-4 result.

The Twins Time in and TIme again over-use Matt Gueriier

Not really trusting Guerrier right now. don’t have a good feeling here.

this is bad for my blood pressure

NATHAN!!

OK, now a couple of runs…..PLEASE.

Jeri has been dealing with the kids for 3 hours. I need to relieve her soon.

Is Joe Mauer going to win this somehow in the 9th?

tough spot….

Breaking ball strikeout……

One down….

Whoever wins this one, hell of a game.

DOUBLE PLAY

Amazing….

wow

great awareness and good throw

that’s Twinkies baseball for you

prove we need either 1. better umpires or 2. technology calling the strikes for us

Here we go….

Do you bunt with Span?

OK, and a good bunt it was.

Now, Cabrera….tough spot here with Mauer and Kubel coming up.

Rodney….vs. Cabrera.

Assuming Cabrera gets out, does Mauer then hit the 2-run homer to make it 6-4?

Damn this is a hellofagame. I love baseball again.

Hmm…good point. You walk Joe and then it’s Kubel. Who is swinging a hot bat lately.

Anyone know what Kubel’s stats against Rodney are?

Great play by Inge.

OK, now you walk Mauer. Kubel vs. Rodney……

Dammit I forgot about Gomez.

UYGH

I hate extra innings.

CRAP

ouch

Can’t say I’m too impressed with Rodney’s control here.

OMG

This game is nuts!

WHAT A GAME!!!!

give us a fly ball please.

preferably over the fence

OK, well that sets up the double play.

seeing-eye.

C’mon Punto……..slap it through the infield….hit a fly ball…..you can do it

GOOD LORD

will never end. lol

That was nuts.

He looked safe to me. Am I imagining that??

What a game

Mahay in the game!?!

Whoever wins this…..are they going to be pumped up for tomorrow against the Yankees, or burned out?

Ugh. Keppel.

ok they really need to score here…

that wasn’t a strike.

I have some family obligations to attend to. Perhaps if I leave the computer that will break the deadlock on the field.

for Miggy to drop a bomb

he will tell me if there is anything to blog…are you guys happy with the game so far? JERI

mental mistake by Delmon Young

twins get lucky………………………….again

John wants to know!

No bunt.

John wishes the Twins had guys on the bench who could hit.

they win on a seeing eye single

U-N-B-EL-I-A-V-L-B-E

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