Take II Tigers Vs Twins.

[Durango53]

GAME: Detroit Tigers (3-4) at Minnesota Twins (4-3).

TIME: Wednesday, 8:10 p.m. EDT.

The Minnesota Twins may not need Justin Morneau's bat against the Detroit Tigers.

The Twins will be without their first baseman for the second straight game as they go for their eighth straight win over the Tigers in the second game of their series at the Metrodome.

Morneau was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday by Minnesota.

Since being hit in the head by a pitch in a game last week, Morneau hasn't gotten much better. Though a second CT scan Monday revealed no damage, Morneau is still bothered by dizziness and headaches and will probably wait until at least Friday before attempting any baseball activities.

"Anybody that's ever been hit in the head ... it's one of those experiences that ultimately is going to take time to get over," Twins general manager Terry Ryan said. "He doesn't feel like he can participate."

Matthew LeCroy will continue to play first most days while Morneau is out. LeCroy is batting .263 with one home run and four RBIs in five games.

The Twins have had their way with the Tigers, winning seven straight against them dating back to last July. Minnesota didn't need Morneau on Tuesday.

Shannon Stewart hit an RBI ground-rule double off Troy Percival with one out in the ninth inning, giving Minnesota a 5-4 victory.

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(AP) Minnesota Twins' from left, Matthew LeCroy, Mike Redmond, Jacque Jones, and Michael Cuddyer mob...


It was the first earned run Percival allowed in 40 1-3 career innings against the Twins. Before Stewart's big hit, Percival was the only active major leaguer with at least 40 innings logged against one opponent with an ERA of zero.

Percival has given up five hits, three runs and two walks in 3 1-3 innings this year.

Returning from a viral infection that kept him out the last four games, Magglio Ordonez went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts for Detroit.

Craig Monroe, a career .348 hitter against the Twins, went 2-for-4 with two runs for the Tigers. Monroe is tied with Dmitri Young for the team lead in RBIs with eight.

[Durango53]

STANDINGS: Tigers - 3rd place (tied), 2 GB, AL Central. Twins - 2nd place, 1 GB, AL Central.

[Durango53]

TIGERS PROBABLE STARTER: Jason Johnson (1-0, 0.00 ERA). The 6-foot-6 Johnson rebounded from a poor spring with 6 2-3 scoreless innings to earn a 7-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Thursday. He gave up five hits and struck out four. The veteran right-hander is 6-4 with a 4.02 ERA in 12 appearances against Minnesota, including 11 starts. Johnson went 1-4 with a 5.70 ERA last April.


DET: RHP Jason Johnsonhttp://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/116595.jpg
• 1-0, 0.00 ERA in 2005
• 1-4, 5.17 ERA in 2004 vs. MIN

MIN: RHP Kyle Lohsehttp://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/346798.jpg
• 0-1, 6.75 ERA in 2005
• 0-0, 4.41 ERA in 2004 vs. DET


TWINS PROBABLE STARTER: Kyle Lohse (0-1, 6.75 ERA). The right-hander has a 5.52 ERA in 16 career starts in April. Lohse didn't have his best stuff on Friday, giving up four runs and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings of a 4-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. He's 5-1 with 45 strike outs and a 4.26 ERA in 11 starts against Detroit for his career.

[Durango53]

OFFENSIVE LEADERS: Tigers - Carlos Guillen, .400 avg.; Young, 3 HRs and 9 runs; Young and Monroe, 8 RBIs; Guillen and Monroe, 1 SB. Twins - Jason Bartlett and Jacque Jones, .350 avg.; Torii Hunter, 2 HRs, 7 RBIs and 3 SBs; Bartlett and Michael Cuddyer, 4 runs.

[Durango53]

SEASON SERIES: Twins, 1-0.

[Durango53]

STREAKS AND NOTES: Tigers - In four innings this year, RHP Ugueth Urbina has allowed six hits, five runs and two walks without any strikeouts. ... DH Young has not homered in six games since hitting three on opening day. ... OF Ordonez is hitting .302 13-for-43) with three home runs and eight RBIs against Lohse. Twins - OF Lew Ford is 7-for-15 with a homer and two doubles against Johnson. ... C-1B LeCroy is batting .331 (49-for-148) in his career against the Tigers. ... Minnesota has been outscored 12-0 in the first inning this year, allowing runs in six of seven games.

[Durango53]

ROAD/HOME RECORDS: Tigers - 0-1 on the road; Twins - 2-2 at home.

[Durango53]

Right-hander Kyle Lohse will be seeking his first victory of 2005 when the Twins and Tigers match up for Game 2 of their series at the Metrodome on Wednesday.

Lohse allowed four runs and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings in a 5-1 loss to the White Sox on April 8. He had one bad sixth inning but left coaches feeling encouraged by his outing. The right-hander is 4-1 with a 4.26 ERA in 11 career games vs. Detroit -- and is without a loss against the team in his last nine starts.

Jason Johnson will take the mound for Detroit. The right-hander is the last pitcher that can claim to have beaten Twins Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana. On July 11, 2004, Johnson took a 2-0 victory over Minnesota and Santana, who has won his last 15 decisions since the All-Star break.

In all seven of their games this season, the Twins have yet to score first.

[Durango53]

Player to watch
Lew Ford has been dialed in against Johnson, batting .467 (7-for-15) lifetime with a home run and four RBIs.

[Durango53]

Quotable
"Everybody has opinions. It doesn't matter what you say off the field. It matters what you do on the field. Talk is talk. It's all about playing on the baseball field. Who gets it done between the lines will win the division." -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire, responding to comments from Tigers designated hitter Dmitri Young

[Durango53]

Quick hits
Jason Bartlett hit his first career Major League home run in the third inning off Mike Maroth Tuesday. ... Torii Hunter has stolen three bases in the last two games. ... Shannon Stewart has a hit in all seven games this season and collected his first multi-hit game of the season Tuesday. ... Juan Rincon has 12 wins in relief since the start of the 2004 season.

[Durango53]

On television
• MIN: FSN North
• DET: none

On radio
• MIN: WCCO 830-AM
• DET: The Sports Station 1270-AM

[T-Wolves]

Looking forward to this game after last night. I wanna see the Tigers come out and blow it again. :)

[KingDave]

hopefull the tigers and twins use less than 233 pitchers this year

[T-Wolves]

Guess like nobody is updating this and I haven't been watching the game, but all i know is that the Twins are leading 5-2 in the 4th with the Twins up to bat. I'll see if I can find some game info so far.

[curt4074]

TIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEee

Touch em all Terry Tiffee

[T-Wolves]

Tiffee homered deep to the right to make the score 7-2. Stewart scores.

[T-Wolves]

Alright, here we go.

Top 1st Detriot:
- B. Inge homered to deep left center

Bot 1st: Minnesota
- T. Tiffee doubled to deep right, J. Bartlett scored, J. Mauer to third
- T. Hunter singled to center, J. Mauer and T. Tiffee scored
- J. Jones homered to deep right, T. Hunter scored

Top 2nd: Detroit
- C. Pena singled to left, R. White scored

Bot 4th: Minnesota
- T. Tiffee homered to deep right, S. Stewart scored

[T-Wolves]

Detroit Inning Summary
- C. Pena struck out swinging
- C. Monroe struck out swinging
- M. Thames singled to left
- J. Smith struck out swinging
- End of Inning (0 Runs, 1 Hit, 0 Errors)

Due Up:
J. Jones
L. Ford
M. Cuddyer

[T-Wolves]

Minnesota Inning Summary
- J. Jones flied out to deep center
- L. Ford popped out to third
- M. Cuddyer popped out to shortstop
- End of Inning (0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors)

Due Up:
O. Infante
B. Inge
I. Rodriguez

[T-Wolves]

D. Young singled to center, B. Inge scored, I. Rodriguez to third

[T-Wolves]

R. White hit sacrifice fly to deep right, I. Rodriguez scored

[T-Wolves]

Detroit Inning Summary
- O. Infante struck out swinging
- B. Inge singled to center
- I. Rodriguez walked, B. Inge to second
- D. Young singled to center, B. Inge scored, I. Rodriguez to third
- R. White hit sacrifice fly to deep right, I. Rodriguez scored
- C. Pena grounded out to first
- End of Inning (2 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors)

Due Up:
-N. Punto
-S. Stewart
-J. Bartlett

[Timberwolf]

After a great game and a great win last night, the series continues this evening. Twins will try to extend the winning streak to 3.

Kyle Lohse makes his second start of the year. He did alright in his first start, but I want to see him do better in his start tonight. He really needs to step up like Joe Mays especially in the wake of Carlos Silva's injury. Twins need him if they want to win the AL Central. If he stinks and if Gassner does well, he could find himself out of the rotation. His starts coming up for the next two months are going to be very vital.

Jason Johnson vs. Kyle Lohse

I am still amused why FSN North is not airing this game. They are airing the Timberwolves tongiht. Why can't Ch. 45 air the Wolves game and FSN North air the Twins game?

[T-Wolves]

Atleast the Wolves are winning, as long as they are winning I'm fine with them playing on FSN North

[Timberwolf]

Thanks for doing the game thread, folks.

I can't make it tonight since I am working here.

I will be on tommorow night though.

[T-Wolves]

Minnesota Inning Summary
- F. German relieved M. Ginter
- N. Punto struck out looking
- S. Stewart grounded out to pitcher
- J. Bartlett grounded out to third
- End of Inning (0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors)

Due Up For The Tigers
-C. Monroe
-M. Thames
-J. Smith

[Timberwolf]

Atleast the Wolves are winning, as long as they are winning I'm fine with them playing on FSN North

Too little too late though. This season is over now. I am just glad they are not mailing it in. I am glad McHale was here. He tried his best as a coach.

I wish Ebi was playing though.

[T-Wolves]

np, I'm doin it through yahoo sense the game isn't on tv

[T-Wolves]

M. Thames singled to left

[T-Wolves]

Lohse replaced by Romero

[curt4074]

6 Innings... 4 Runs.... Not too bad in Lohse Standars... Although i wish he could have kept his runs a bit lower.... Romero is working well 2 K's so far... If he can get it together we have The best Bullpen in baseball... a Great Lefty Set -up a great Righty Set-up ...a great Rookie, the Old Man, And the Flame throwing Closer....


I don't know of any bullpen that can compare to

CP - Nathan
SU - Rincon
SU - Romero
MR - Crain
LR - Mulholland

[Durango53]

Going good for the Twins tonight. Some bumps but a strong lead.

Tiffe has a ball crushed out!!!!! He might play his way into the lineup and force the Twins to get rid of one of the extra catchers.

[Durango53]

Man even the Twins radio guys are saying the Rox suck.. :(

[T-Wolves]

Detroit Inning Summary
- C. Monroe grounded out to third
- M. Thames singled to left
- J.C. Romero relieved K. Lohse
- J. Smith struck out swinging
- O. Infante struck out swinging
- End of Inning (0 Runs, 1 Hit, 0 Errors)

Due Up For The Twins
-J. Mauer
-T. Tiffee
-T. Hunter

[Durango53]

This is the best pen in baseball.......

[Durango53]

Well guys be good. It is bed time for me. Up early today and a early day tomorrow driving across state to do some work. Have a great day all.

[T-Wolves]

confused who that is
Rox = Red Sox?????

[T-Wolves]

night durango

-J. Mauer doubled to deep left

[Durango53]

Rox is the Rockies.

Now that I live in Wyoming the Rox are big here.

[Durango53]

Damm spammers got some of that crap to take care of right quick.

[T-Wolves]

Bases loaded fellas

GRAND SLAM TIME :)

[T-Wolves]

Twins come up emty handed with the bases loaded

Minnesota Inning Summary
- J. Mauer doubled to deep left
- T. Tiffee grounded out to shortstop
- T. Hunter grounded out to shortstop
- J. Jones walked
- L. Ford hit by pitch, J. Mauer to third, J. Jones to second
- M. Cuddyer grounded into fielder's choice, L. Ford out at second
- End of Inning (0 Runs, 1 Hit, 0 Errors)

Due Up For The Tigers
-B. Inge
-I. Rodriguez
-D. Young

[T-Wolves]

Romero replaced by Rincon

[Durango53]

Nice to see Mauer getting some hits.

[T-Wolves]

League Update
Wed Apr 13, 2005
San Diego 8
Chi Cubs 3
Final

San Diego 3
Chi Cubs 8
Final

Washington 11
Atlanta 4
Final

Philadelphia 0
Florida 4
Final

Pittsburgh 2
Milwaukee 6
Final

Cincinnati 6
St. Louis 5
Final

Seattle 2
Kansas City 1
Final

Colorado 2
Arizona 5
Final

Baltimore 5
Tampa Bay 1
Top 9th

Chi White Sox 5
Cleveland 4
Final 10th

NY Yankees 5
Boston 2
Final

Houston 0
NY Mets 0
Top 11th

LA Angels 3
Texas 6
Top 8th

Detroit 4
Minnesota 7
Top 8th

Toronto 0
Oakland 0
Bot 1st

San Francisco 0
LA Dodgers 0
Bot 1st

[T-Wolves]

Detroit Inning Summary
- J. Rincon relieved J.C. Romero
- B. Inge struck out swinging
- I. Rodriguez struck out swinging
- D. Young singled to right
- R. White struck out looking
- End of Inning (0 Runs, 1 Hit, 0 Errors)

Due Up For The Twins
-N. Punto
-S. Stewart
-J. Bartlett

[T-Wolves]

Gotta go fellas
your on your own for the next 1 1/2 innings

[Timberwolf]

Great job with the game thread, T-Wolves. Thanks for posting them.

Good to get the back-to-back win against the Tigers. I guess that knucklehead Dimitri Young, the mouth that roar, underestimated the Twins about how they are on a decline as he talked about how the AL Central is between the Indians and Tigers. I hope the Twins impressed Dimitri. He was best served keeping his mouth shut. I am really glad we got the back-to-back wins. Tigers are nowhere close to the Twins level as far as I am concerned. Why they are nowhere close? It comes down to pitching. Tigers pitchers has been roughed up by the Twins in this series.

Jason Johnson, who stunk the game, stunk for the Tigers tonight. He was roughed up in the first inning and he never recovered. He did not even get to finish the first as he was taken out early. Twins were getting the bloop hits off him and then Jacques laid down the hammer on Johnson with that homerun in the upper deck. Twins offense was hitting like a pinball machine where the hitters would get a hit when they were batting.

Jason Bartlett and Joe Mauer played great again. I can't say enough about Jason and Joe shows why he is a great player.

How about Terry Tiffee? This was his first game of the year and he had 2 hits and 3 RBIs. He did a very good job. Good to see him do well. Terry was called up with Justin Morneau being in the DL.

Lew Ford has done a very good job so far. He is getting on base.

I am really glad the offense is starting to roll a little bit.

Kyle was efficient. It was good to see him relax with that big lead out there.

J.C. was very effective again.

Juan and Joe did the rest.

My only complaint is the game not being televised. I got the Metrodome feed on MLB.TV with the Twins radio guys. FSN North should have had that game tonight and Ch. 45 should have had the Wolves/Warriors game. Listening to Herb and Gordon was bad. Herb was alright, but he seemed bored. The only great thing those two did was give out out-of-town scores.

Let's go for the sweep tommorow.

[Timberwolf]

Man even the Twins radio guys are saying the Rox suck.. :(

Dan Gladden was talking about it in the game tonight. He thinks the Rox will implode. I disagree. This is a very long season. I like what I am seeing despite their record. I still think the Rox will have a good year.

[LesPaul]

Twins come up emty handed with the bases loaded


that was Cuddyer's second chance with bases loaded, he had another against the White Sox. Both times he grounded out. Maybe not a clutch hitter?

[T-Wolves]

No, he's not much of the hitter. He has his moments but the moments don't come at the right moment. :(

[T-Wolves]

I'll post a game summary for everybody in a sec.
Yahoo does a great job with there sports section.

[T-Wolves]

I like this play by play feature that Yahoo offers. It's a nice quick way to look over the whole game if you missed it.

Top 1st: Detroit
- O. Infante popped out to shallow right
- B. Inge homered to deep left center
- I. Rodriguez grounded out to third
- D. Young struck out swinging

1 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 1, Minnesota 0

Bottom 1st: Minnesota
- S. Stewart flied out to right
- J. Bartlett singled to third
- J. Mauer singled to third, J. Bartlett to second
- T. Tiffee doubled to deep right, J. Bartlett scored, J. Mauer to third
- T. Hunter singled to center, J. Mauer and T. Tiffee scored
- T. Hunter stole second
- J. Jones homered to deep right, T. Hunter scored
- L. Ford doubled to deep right
- M. Cuddyer singled to right, L. Ford to third
- N. Punto walked, M. Cuddyer to second
- M. Ginter relieved J. Johnson
- S. Stewart lined into double play third to second, M. Cuddyer out at second

5 runs, 7 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 1, Minnesota 5

Top 2nd: Detroit
- R. White doubled to deep center
- C. Pena singled to left, R. White scored
- C. Monroe grounded into double play shortstop to second to first, C. Pena out at second
- M. Thames struck out swinging

1 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 2, Minnesota 5

Bottom 2nd: Minnesota
- J. Bartlett singled to right
- J. Mauer walked, J. Bartlett to second
- T. Tiffee walked, J. Bartlett to third, J. Mauer to second
- T. Hunter fouled out to first
- J. Jones grounded into double play first to shortstop to pitcher, T. Tiffee out at second

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 2, Minnesota 5

Top 3rd: Detroit
- J. Smith grounded out to shortstop
- O. Infante popped out to shortstop
- B. Inge flied out to left

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 2, Minnesota 5

Bottom 3rd: Minnesota
- L. Ford popped out to second
- M. Cuddyer grounded out to shortstop
- N. Punto struck out looking

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 2, Minnesota 5

Top 4th: Detroit
- I. Rodriguez singled to center
- D. Young grounded into double play second to shortstop to first, I. Rodriguez out at second
- R. White grounded out to shortstop

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 2, Minnesota 5

Bottom 4th: Minnesota
- S. Stewart doubled to center
- J. Bartlett flied out to right, S. Stewart to third
- J. Mauer grounded out to second
- T. Tiffee homered to deep right, S. Stewart scored
- T. Hunter flied out to right

2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 2, Minnesota 7

Top 5th: Detroit
- C. Pena struck out swinging
- C. Monroe struck out swinging
- M. Thames singled to left
- J. Smith struck out swinging

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 2, Minnesota 7

Bottom 5th: Minnesota
- J. Jones flied out to deep center
- L. Ford popped out to third
- M. Cuddyer popped out to shortstop

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 2, Minnesota 7

Top 6th: Detroit
- O. Infante struck out swinging
- B. Inge singled to center
- I. Rodriguez walked, B. Inge to second
- D. Young singled to center, B. Inge scored, I. Rodriguez to third
- R. White hit sacrifice fly to deep right, I. Rodriguez scored
- C. Pena grounded out to first

2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 4, Minnesota 7

Bottom 6th: Minnesota
- F. German relieved M. Ginter
- N. Punto struck out looking
- S. Stewart grounded out to pitcher
- J. Bartlett grounded out to third

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 4, Minnesota 7

Top 7th: Detroit
- C. Monroe grounded out to third
- M. Thames singled to left
- J.C. Romero relieved K. Lohse
- J. Smith struck out swinging
- O. Infante struck out swinging

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 4, Minnesota 7

Bottom 7th: Minnesota
- J. Mauer doubled to deep left
- T. Tiffee grounded out to shortstop
- T. Hunter grounded out to shortstop
- J. Jones walked
- L. Ford hit by pitch, J. Mauer to third, J. Jones to second
- M. Cuddyer grounded into fielder's choice, L. Ford out at second

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 4, Minnesota 7

Top 8th: Detroit
- J. Rincon relieved J.C. Romero
- B. Inge struck out swinging
- I. Rodriguez struck out swinging
- D. Young singled to right
- R. White struck out looking

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 4, Minnesota 7

Bottom 8th: Minnesota
- J. Walker relieved F. German
- N. Punto walked
- S. Stewart grounded out to third, N. Punto to second
- J. Bartlett flied out to right
- J. Mauer singled to left, N. Punto scored
- T. Tiffee lined out to second

1 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 4, Minnesota 8

Top 9th: Detroit
- J. Nathan relieved J. Rincon
- C. Pena ground rule double to deep right center
- C. Monroe popped out to second
- M. Thames struck out swinging
- J. Smith singled to second, C. Pena to third
- J. Smith stole second
- O. Infante popped out to shallow left

0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
Detroit 4, Minnesota 8