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

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                    **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 


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