MINNESOTA 7, KANSAS CITY 0 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Wednesday, May 14.

Batting stars:  Doug Mienkiewicz was 3-for-5 with two doubles.  Dustan Mohr was 2-for-3 with a double, a stolen base, and two runs.  Luis Rivas was 2-for-4.  Cristian Guzman was 2-for-5 with a triple.  Corey Koskie was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer, his fifth.

Pitching star:  Rick Reed pitched a complete game shutout, giving up three hits  and one walk and striking out two.

Opposition stars:  None.

The game:  Guzman led off the first with a triple and scored on a Mientkiewicz single to give the Twins a 1-0 lead.  It stayed 1-0 until the fourth.  Matthew LeCroy was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and Torii Hunter and Todd Sears walked, loading the bases.  A ground out scored one, a sacrifice fly scored another, and Rivas had an RBI single to make it 4-0 Twins.

The Twins continued to add on.  In the fifth Mientkiewicz led off with a double and Koskie followed with a two-run homer to make it 6-0.  Mohr led off the sixth with a double, went to third on Rivas' single, and scored on a ground out to bring the score to 7-0.

Reed was in complete control.  The only threat the Royals had came in the fourth, and it was a mild one.  Carlos Beltran drew a two-out walk and Mike Sweeney singled, putting men on first and second.  Raul Ibanez flied to left to end the inning.  They had only three hits and had none after the fifth inning.

WP:  Reed (2-4).  LP:  Runelvys Hernandez (4-3).  S:  None.

Notes:  Sears was at first base, with Mientkiewicz in right field.  Mohr was in left in place of Jacque Jones.

Bobby Kielty pinch-ran for LeCroy in the fourth, after LeCroy was hit by a pitch, and stayed in the game at DH.

Mohr was batting .315.  LeCroy was 0-for-1 and was batting .314.  Kielty was 1-for-3 and was batting .307.

By game scores this was easily Reed's best game of the season.  His game score was 82; his next best was 65, which he did twice.

Hernandez pitched five innings, allowing six runs on six hits and two walks and striking out three.  Runelvys apparently left the building and went on the disabled list after this game, as he did not pitch again until July 11.

Jones was out of the lineup for the second consecutive game.  He would not start again until May 17.

Record:  The Twins were 22-17, in second place in the American League Central, 1.5 games behind Kansas City.