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2015 Twins Game Logs

2015 Game 108: Twins at Blue Jays

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At the game marking the two-thirds point of the season, the Twins hope to stop regressing to the mean and start acting like the team that outplayed expectations throughout most of the first half. My ability to watch this team has been minimal since the All-Star Game thanks to scheduling luck and bad situations, and tonight will be no different, but here's hoping I don't come back to learn that the team has dipped to .500 for the first time in months.

Kyle Gibson, a solid but unpredictable starter, faces Mark Buehrle, whose year-by-year statistics are so predictable you can nearly set a watch to him. Outside of the better laundry he's essentially unchanged from when the Twins saw him on the regular, so that's who they face today.

Okay, Twins. Let's stick around the Wild Card race for a while.

2015 Twins Game Recaps

Game 23 recap: Twins 1 White Sox 0

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Has Kyle Gibson turned a corner, or did he look good against a  White Sox lineup that cant score runs? Its probably a little of both but it resulted in another Twins win over the White Sox . Gibson had his sinker working, of his 24 outs recorded 13 were ground ball outs, 2 by fly ball and 4 by strikeout.  Perhaps the Nick Blackburn comparisons/ceiling projections are not that far off base. The Twins led 1-0 after 8, but Paul Molitor decided that was enough and sent Glen Perkins in for the 9th to get the save and preserve the shut out.

Jose Quintana had himself a nice game too, going 7 innings and giving up 1 run.  The run was scored by the speedster Kennys Vargas. While on second, Vargas tagged up on a ball to medium deep CF and scampered home on a wild pitch. The Twins have run at will on center fielder Adam Eaton's arm. And really, he has shown no accuracy and his throws so I think that trend will continue.

 

The Twins will try to win another one Saturday. Game time is 1:10pm.

NOTES

- After a 1-6 start, the Twins are 10-6 and are only 1 game below .500

-Torii Hunter collected two hits. Its his 3rd game of 20 played where he has 2 or more hits.

-Brian Dozier did NOT score a run, breaking a 5 game run scoring streak (plating 8 times in those 5 games). Dozier has scored at least 1 run in nine of the last eleven games.

-This is the third time in Gibson's career he has recorded 24 outs. He has not pitched a complete game.

-This is the third team shutout for Twins pitching. It took until May 21 last year to reach that mark.

- Roster Moves: Twins will activate Ricky Nolasco & Brian Duensing & have optioned Tommy Milone & Caleb Thielbar to AAA.