Next up series in Boston!

[Izzy]

Tonight's starting pitchers: Blackburn (7-4) vs. Lester (7-3).

[Bon Bon]

Both of these young pitchers have been very good this season. Should be a great game. One reason I am glad to be back in Boston is that I can now watch the Redsox games again.

[Izzy]

Monroe is in line up tonight.

[henks]

Harris is at 3rd, Punto is at short again. Must be because Gardy doesn't want Buscher (lefty) facing Lester (lefty).

[Izzy]

Yep, it's lefty vs. lefty situation.

[Izzy]

Twins batters against Lester - career


[php] **PA** AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP G_miss YR_miss
+-----------------+-------+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+-------+
Delmon Young 15 13 2 0 0 0 1 1 3 .154 .200 .154 .354 0 1 0 0 0
Brendan Harris 13 12 5 2 0 0 2 0 0 .417 .417 .583 1.000 1 0 0 0 1
Carlos Gomez 3 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .666 0 0 0 0 0
Jason Kubel 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Joe Mauer 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .666 0 0 0 0 0
Justin Morneau 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Brian Buscher 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Alexi Casilla 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Nick Punto 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0
+-----------------+-------+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+---+---+---+------+-------+
Total 43 40 9 2 0 0 5 1 5 .225 .238 .275 .513 1 1 0 0 1 [/php]

I copied this from baseball-reference.com, thought it will be interesting to evaluate before the game.

[Izzy]

Game's underway.

Gomez is at 1st on error by Boston.

[Izzy]

1 out after pickoff on Gomez.

[henks]

Harris hits a 2 out, 2 rbi triple in the top of the 4 to put the twins up on boston 2-1.

[Izzy]

Harris with a triple that drove 2 men home has brought the Twins on the top, 2-1.

[Izzy]

Punto with 2 out RBI single. 3-1, Twins.

[henks]

Twins keep up the 2 out hitting.

[henks]

Punto pulls a Gomez and gets picked off.

[Izzy]

Punto out on a pickoff. THat was the 2nd time that Twins players has been caught off of a pickoff.

[henks]

Izzy, we gotta figure something out here....check out the last few posts. lol