Twins @ Rays 8/2-8/5

[Tobywan]

Probabales

Pavano VS Hellickson

Duensing VS Niemann

Baker VS Price

Slowey VS Davis

Hellickson makes his debut.

[Tobywan]

Gawd, I'm old this kid looks 12! First pitch of his major league career...called strike!

[Tobywan]

3 up, 3 down for the kid.

[Tobywan]

Strikes out Kubel and Thome, 6 up 6 down.

[Tobywan]

Kid did pretty well in his debut. Pitched 7, gave up 3 hits, 2 ER, 2 BB and got 6 K’s. We finally tied it up with the Yankees.

Hopefully, Niemann can be his usual self tonight.

[Tobywan]

With sending Hellickson back down after his debut the Rays bring up Dan Johnson, he will be at 1B tonight.

[Tobywan]

Niemann not as sharp as usual, but with 3 run homers from SRod and BJ the Rays hold on to win 6-4. They are in sole possession of first for the time being.

[love_that_reefer]

Rays in first! I love it

[Tobywan]

So happy I got home from work in time to watch the 9th tonight, been 1-0 in the Twins favor since the 2nd, and my boys tie it up.

[Tobywan]

Extra innings anybody's game now.

[Tobywan]

13th, we could be here all night.

[Tobywan]

Ugh, 2-1 Twins. Darn you Delmon.

[Tobywan]

Twins win the battle. We're tied again with the Yanks.

[Tobywan]

To come back from a 6-0 deficit to tie only to have the Dome betray us........oh the irony!

[catman]

Tough series. Every game was close and either team could have won or lost them all.
Both teams see what they need to tighten up and what is clicking right now.