Twins 9, Palms 7

The Twins and Palms played a back and forth game in which runs were scored seemingly at will, and quality pitching was at a premium. The Twins took an early lead and never trailed when Joe Mauer hit a 3 run first inning homer. The lead was 4 when the Palms scored 4 with 3 extra base hits, including a Billy Dupont home run. Blake Johnston wasn't the effective pitcher he usually is, working only 4 innings and striking out nobody while also giving up 2 home runs, a rarity for him this season. The Twins relinquished two more leads, but ultimately scored twice on Tim Byrdak in the 8th to claim the lead for good.

 Minnesota Twins 9, Miami Palms 7
 Saturday, May 31, 2014


 Minnesota Twins (1-1)                                    Miami Palms (28-29)                                    
 Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave     
 ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---     
 Dozier 2b       5  2  2  0  1  0  1  3  0  2   .222      Crisp cf        3  1  1  1  2  1  10 0  0  1   .317
 Escobar ss      4  2  1  1  1  1  3  1  0  1   .167      Markakis rf     5  1  2  0  0  0  3  0  0  0   .278
 Mauer dh        5  2  3  3  0  0  0  0  0  0   .375      Drysdale dh     5  0  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  1   .305
 Willingham lf   5  0  3  1  0  0  3  0  0  0   .333      Sohn lf         5  1  1  1  0  2  6  0  0  1   .259
 Arcia rf        5  1  2  2  0  0  2  0  0  2   .444      Dupont 1b       5  1  2  2  0  0  4  1  0  2   .292
 Plouffe 3b      5  0  1  1  0  0  1  0  0  0   .111      Johnson 3b      5  1  3  1  0  0  2  0  0  0   .311
 Parmelee 1b     5  0  1  0  0  0  4  2  0  2   .200      Johnson 2b      5  1  1  1  0  1  0  0  0  1   .255
 Pinto c         5  1  3  0  0  0  6  0  0  3   .600      Abreu ss        4  0  1  1  0  1  0  0  0  3   .242
 Hicks cf        5  1  2  1  0  0  4  0  0  1   .400      Ruiz c          4  1  1  0  0  1  1  0  0  0   .218

                 -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---                            -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---           
 Totals          44 9  18 9  2  1  27 6  0  11            Totals          41 7  14 7  2  6  27 3  0  9 


                         1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10     R  H  E
                         -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -      -  -  -
 Minnesota Twins         3  1  0  2  0  0  1  2  0         9  18 0 
 Miami Palms             0  0  4  0  0  2  1  0  0         7  14 0 



 LOB- Minnesota Twins 11, Miami Palms 9; 2B- Johnson(6), Ruiz(8), Crisp(14); 3B- Abreu(5);
 HR- Mauer(1), Arcia(1), Hicks(1), Dupont(6); RBI- Mauer 3(3), Willingham(1), Arcia 2(2),
 Plouffe(1), Escobar(1), Hicks(1), Dupont 2(25), Johnson(22), Johnson(19), Crisp(36),
 Sohn(38), Abreu(22); SF- Escobar(1); RLSP- Dozier, Arcia, Pinto 2, Parmelee, Dupont,
 Crisp, Abreu 2; 

 
 


 Minnesota Twins            IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA
 Correia                    6.0  9  6  6  1  3    9.00 
 Duensing(W 1-0) (BS,1)     1.0  4  1  1  0  3    9.00 
 Burton(H,1)                1.0  0  0  0  1  0    0.00 
 Perkins(S, 1)              1.0  1  0  0  0  0    0.00 

 Miami Palms                IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA
 Johnston                   4.0  10 6  6  1  0    4.04 
 Perez                      2.0  2  0  0  0  0    3.03 
 Otterloop                  1.0  2  1  1  0  0    7.47 
 Byrdak(L 3-1)              1.0  4  2  2  1  0    5.17 
 Gonsales                   1.0  0  0  0  0  1    2.76 

 Pitches-strikes- Correia 94-57, Duensing 29-17, Burton 16-9, Perkins 4-4, Johnston 62-37,
 Perez 13-10, Otterloop 9-7, Byrdak 26-13, Gonsales 8-7; Batters faced- Correia 28,
 Duensing 7, Burton 4, Perkins 4, Johnston 23, Perez 8, Otterloop 5, Byrdak 8, Gonsales 3;

Player of the Game: Joe Mauer

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