The Twins won their spring training game today 4-2, but that doesn’t matter. What does matter are the bad things that went on today. For one, Scott Baker only threw 49 pitches, and was supposed to throw 70. And the second thing, our centerfielder Carlos Gomez left the game with a leg injury.

Baker needed to get to 70 pitches in his outing today in order to stay on schedule to stretch himself out before the season. Had everything went fine and had he been able to get to the right number, Baker would have pitched Sunday to finish up the spring. After that, Baker would have been ready to pitch the fourth game of the season.

Now, we don’t know what will happen. Gardenhire hasn’t said anything about it, but the likely guess is that Baker will need to go on the disabled list because he’ll need more time to stretch out before he can be put into the rotation.

The Gomez news is just as bad. He hit a double early, but later in the game, he came up lame in the outfield holding his left leg. He was taken out of the game after being looked at. Right now its being called a hamstring cramp.

The lone good news on the day was that the Twins collected the win and that Livan pitched a great game. His final line was six innings, four hits, one run and five strikeouts.

I’ll have updates right on this post if we get any news on what will happen with Baker or Gomez.

UPDATE 1: Gomez said he wants to play in the last three games of the spring, so it looks like it might not be to bad.

UPDATE 2: Read above for the good news!