The Twins fell to the Philadelphia Phillies today by a final score of 3-2 and are now 12-10 overall on the spring. Livan Hernandez pitched five innings, and did a nice job overall. The offense really never got going, and never lead in the game.
** Livan Hernandez has looked shaky at times this spring, but today put together a nice outing. In his five innings of work, Hernandez allowed three hits, one walk and two runs. Hernandez also collected six total strikeouts in the outing.
** After Hernandez, Brian Bass, Dennys Reyes and Pat Neshek each pitched solid innings of work. None of the three allowed a run, and just one of the three, Reyes, allowed a base hit.
** The ninth inning and the loss went to Casey Daigle. In his one inning of work, Daigle allowed two hits, a walk and the game-winning run. It’s a surprise to me that he wasn't cut this morning along with Keisler and Barrett.
** The offense collected just eight hits on the day, and nearly half of those hits went to Cuddyer. On the game, Cuddyer was 3-3 with both of the team’s RBI.
** Centerfield watch: A night after Carlos Gomez received the start in center, it was Span’s turn. Span went 1-3 on the game and was caught stealing. On the spring, Span is hitting .294.
** The other hits in the game went to: Eli Whiteside, Jason Kubel, Adam Everett and Trevor Plouffe.
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I was cheering against Span and Punto today...I don't want either of them to come up to the point where I am going to cheer for the opposing team on the AB. Punto struck out once and never had a good AB, Span struck out twice and on the two strike outs did not have good AB...even when he got the hit, he never worked the count which is what the Twins are looking for.
Young had a surprising off day striking out twice...but everybody does.
Cuddyer was good...hopefully we can see more of that during the regular season!!!