Game 49: Blue Jays at Twins

Ricky Nolasco (5-1, 5.12 ERA, 81 ERA+, 2.86 FIP, 1.61 WHIP): A win for Ricky today ties his win total for all of last year.
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Drew Hutchison (4-1, 5.12 ERA 77 ERA+, 3.73 FIP, 1.31 WHIP): Drew has received an average of 9 runs of support this year...wow.
Other than a hiccup in Detroit, Minnesota has won every series in the month of May thus far. A win today would get them to 8 series wins out of 9 and 20 wins for the month.

LINEUPS
Twins

  1.  Dozier
  2. Hunter
  3. Mauer
  4. Plouffe
  5. Suzuki
  6. Rosario
  7. Nunez
  8. Hicks
  9. Santana

Blue Jays

  1. Reyes
  2. Donaldson
  3. Bautista
  4. Encarnacion
  5. Martin
  6. Colabello
  7. Carrera
  8. Pillar
  9. Goins

Happy Birthday–May 31

Socks Seibold (1896)
Edward Bennett Williams (1920)
Russ Goetz (1930)
Ray Washburn (1938)
Tippy Martinez (1950)
Joe Orsulak (1962)
Kenny Lofton (1967)
Bill Miller (1967)
Dave Roberts (1972)
Jake Peavy (1981)
Ray Olmedo (1981)

Edward Bennett Williams was the owner of the Baltimore Orioles from 1979-1988.

Russ Goetz was an American League umpire from 1968-1983.

Bill Miller has been a major league umpire since 2000.

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