Minnesota Twins Game 61: Lineups and First Impressions

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Rubber game! The Minnesota Twins and Houston Astros have been putting on a show the last two days and it comes down to one nine inning contest. Of course, many aren’t talking about the Twins game from yesterday, but the signing of Kendrys Morales and the resulting bye-bye to Jason Kubel.

To the lineups for Sunday’s contest and, oh, by the way…. Morales will be in uniform today:

Minnesota Twins (29-31) Lineup

Danny Santana CF

Brian Dozier 2B

Trevor Plouffe 3B

Josh Willingham LF

Oswaldo Arcia DH

Eduardo Nunez RF

Chris Parmelee 1B

Josmil Pinto C

Eduardo Escobar SS

• Sam Deduno P

Houston Astros (27-36) Lineup

Dexter Fowler CF

Jose Altuve 2B

George Springer RF

Jonathan Singleton 1B

Matt Dominguez 3B

Robbie Grossman LF

Chris Carter DH

Carlos Corporan C

Jonathan Villar SS

• Collin McHugh P

First Impressions

• Collin! There’s another two l’ed Collin out there. Collin Raye and I are no longer alone!
• The Astros bullpen catcher, Jeff Murphy, has his own Wikipedia page.
• Jesse Crian is on the disabled list with the Astros and I totally forget he was on the Astros.
• #DeathToTheReunionTour
• No Mauer today. That’s interesting.
• Two shortstops in the outfield! YES! Isn’t this fun?!

Game Time

First pitch is scheduled for 1:10 from beautiful Target Field in downtown Minneapolis.

The game can be seen on FOX Sports North and heard on the Twins Radio Network.