The Minnesota Twins clobbered the Chicago White Sox 12-1 byehind Carlos Gomez who hit for the cycle.  Gomez was the first Twins player to hit for the cycle since Kirby Puckett did it 22 years ago.

Gomez wasn’t the only Twins player to put up good numbers however as Nick Punto had five rbi in the game to lead the Twins.  Have Punto’s five rbi, Gomez’s three rbi, Michael Cuddyer, Delmon Young, and Matt Tolbert all had one rbi.

Livan Hernandez was great on the mound as he improved to 5-1 on the season after tossing a complete game.  Hernandez gave up nine hits in the nine innings and only allowed one run which came in the ninth inning when Jermaine Dye hit a solo home run.

The Twins are now 17-15 on the season after the butt kicking off the White Sox.  Twins Blog

The Minnesota Twins moved within 1.5 games of the Chicago White Sox in the standings after beating them on Wednesday afternoon by the score of 4-3.  The Twins swept the short two game series against the White Sox to pick up two full games in the standings!

Nick Blackburn tossed seven innings of eight hit ball to pick up the win for the Twins.  Blackburn only let three runs cross the plate, one of those being a solo home run to Carlos Quentin.  Joe Nathan picked up another save which was his ninth of the season.

Carlos Gomez, Brendan Harris, Justin Morneau, and Michael Cuddyer all finished the game with one RBI each.  Jason Kubel did have a bad day at the plate however as he went 0-4 and left six runners on base.

The Twins will now have have an off day on Thursday and start a series with the Detroit Tigers on Friday.

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The Minnesota Twins got their butts whooped by the Oakland Athletics as the two teams played Thursday afternoon.  On a day where starting pitcher Francisco Liriano gave up six runs and didn’t even make it out of the first inning, the Twins were pretty much doomed from the start.

Liriano’s six runs in the first inning but the Twins in a huge hole that they were not able to come out of.  Following Liriano, Brian Bass gave up four more runs (three earned) in 3.1 innings.  Jesse Crain also gave up an earned run in one inning of action.

Carlos Gomez did put the Twins on the board first with a solo home run in the first inning.  The Twins did not score their second run of the game until the fifth inning when Brian Buscher singled in Mike Redmond.

The Twins were hoping to get back to .500 but now they are two games under .500 with a 10-12 record.

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Jason Kubel went 2-4 with six RBI on Wednesday night to lift the Minnesota Twins over the Chicago White sox by the score of 12-5.  Kubel hit a grand slam, a RBI single, and a sac fly to account for his six RBI’s.  What night for Kublel who says Chicago is his favorite place to hit the ball.

Carlos Gomez and Mike Lamb chipped in with two RBI while Delmon Young and Craig Monroe also had one RBI for the Twins.

Scott Baker picked up his second win of the season in the game as he tossed five innings of five hit ball as he allowed three earned runs while striking out seven.  Brian Bass picked up the save as he pitched the final four innings of the game.  Bass did allow one earned runs in his four innings.

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News out of Twins spring training camp is that speedster Carlos Gomez will be the starting center fielder for the Minnesota Twins on openind day.  The Twins aren’t expecting much offensive production out of the youngster, but do hope that he can get on base and steal some bases and score some runs.

The Twins are also saying that it looks like Francisco Liriano will start the season at Triple-A.  Liriano needs to get some more innings in and show the team that he is definately back from Tommy John surgery.  Right now he isn’t 100%, and needs to build some strength and make sure his arm is all ok.

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Johan Santana has been traded to the New York Mets as long as he agrees to a contract extention within the next 72 hours.  The Mets will send outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey to the Twins.

As a Twins fan, would you rather have dealth with the Red Sox or Yankees over the Mets?  One good thing sending Johan to the Mets is that he won’t have to face the Twins like he would have had to do with the Red Sox or Yankees.

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