The Minnesota Twins beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 on Monday night to beat the Red Sox 3-1 in their four game series.  The Twins kept pressure on Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz in the game as they rocked him for seven runs in only 4 1/3 innings.

Craig Monroe and Delmon Young both had two rbi each in the game.  Justin Morneau and Michael Cuddyer both had one rbi each as well.

Livan Hernandez improved his record to 6-1 on the season as he pitched six innings to pick up the victory.  Hernandez gave up ten hits, but only three runs scored and they all came in the first inning of the game.

Juan Rincon pitched two innings and then Jesse Crain pitched one inning to finish off the Red Sox.

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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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