Twins-White Sox: Perkins returns
Posted on July 11th, 2009 – 4:46 PMBy La Velle
Glen Perkins finally get the ball today after missing three days due to illness.
“He’s pitching, and I don’t give a crap what he’s feeling,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said.
Then Gardenhire laughed and said, “He’s fine.”
Perkins is 1-0 with a 4.50 ERA in five games (two starts) against the White Sox. His history against White Sox hitters isn’t that deep. Paul Konerko is 2-for-9 against him and Jermaine Dye is 1 for 8. No one else with the Sox has more than six at-bats against Perkins.
Joe Mauer and Jason Kubel are both 6-for-19 against Gavin Floyd. Kubel has homered off of him twice. Brendan Harris is 1 for 13 against Floyd but is starting in the No. 2 hole.
Lineups
White Sox (44-42)
1. Scott Podsednik, LF
2. Alexei Ramirez, SS
3. Jermaine Dye, RF
4. Jim Thome, DH
5. Paul Konerko, 1B
6. A.J. Pierzynski, C
7. Jayson Nix, 2B
8. Gordon Beckham, 3B
9. Brian Anderson, CF
Pitching: Gavin Floyd, RHP
Twins (44-43)
1. Denard Span, LF
2. Brendan Harris, SS
3. Joe Mauer, C
4. Justin Morneau, 1B
5. Jason Kubel, DH
6. Michael Cuddyer, RF
7. Joe Crede, 3B
8. Carlos Gomez, CF
9. Nick Punto, 2B
Pitching: Glen Perkins, LHP
105 Responses to "Twins-White Sox: Perkins returns"
We may win, we may lose, but one thing is certain: Gardenhire’s inability to slide both Mauer and Morneau one spot in the lineup will once again cost this team a chance at an additional run or two.
*one spot up
perk will throw a no hitter! for an inning or two, ha!
lets win this one and secure a .500 first half!
i agree with adam, mauer should bat two. morneau three and cuddyer 4. Cuddyer is 2nd on team in extra base hits, and as much as I hate to admit it, (b/c I dont really like him) he should be batting 4th. Then I would go Kubel 5, Crede 6, Harris 7, Gomez 8 and punto 9
should be the 4 lefties in a row to start.
Adam
What you’re suggesting makes much too much sense. Gardy is too stubborn and has too much ego to adjust.
sure like to see gardy pick either dy or gomez and stick with them for 5-6 games. every time one of them gets going a little they are back on the bench again.
one more win tonight or sunday and all the trade will end. imo it’s all talk anyway, about 1% chance of it happening.
Dunno about that, JP. He says that’s where he’s batting “and I don’t give a crap what he’s feeling.”
Anybody else getting an error when trying to read “Aggressive with fastball, Guerra moves up”? It was happening at noon today and still is for me here.
amtrekman, I’m getting the same error.
im having same computer problems with guerra article but im sure happy twins didnt release him the way bloggers were bitching about him but not to worry 1 bad outing and bloggers will bitch plenty again lol
im having same computer problems with guerra article but im sure happy twins didnt release him the way bloggers were bitching about him but not to worry 1 bad outing and bloggers will bitch plenty again lol
Huh?
Adam, didn’t you know it’s a requirement to bat a struggling middle infielder in the 2-spot?
Come on perk…
Looks like perkins is normal average self. I am not really sure why people are so high on him.
Perkins looks out of gas in the 2nd inning. It’s like he’s been sick or something!
If hes not healthy he should not be on the mound.
Twins look like they are going to get about maybe four hits tonight.
Nice swing you bum!!!!!!!!!
Cuddyer swinging at the junk ball for strike three.
I should just make save that somewhere so I can cut/paste it on a daily basis.
What’s even worse is Cuddy swung at the same pitch on the 1-1 count right before that.
Did that 1-2 pitch come as something of a surprise, Mike?
Im not as much of a Cuddyer hater as most people here, but he is the most riddiculous hitter with two strikes, slider away, slider away, slider away…
You don”t move a guy like Morneau out of the 4 spot.
Mauer is the perfect #3 batter.
Until we get anothe 2nd..
harris will work…
Win Twins!
Apparently this years motto is; “take the pressure off going for the sweep by splitting the first two games”.
Wow! Simply pathetic so far.
Nice play Cuddy!
No need to dive Cuddy, but feel free to lean over to catch that ball. Oh wait, he’d be on the disabled list before he hit the ground.
That might be a good thing Macleoud
Brian Anderson really?
That ground ball is why Harris isn’t a starting-caliber SS
People yelled at me when I said to trade Cuddyer during his brief hot streak. Now, the flailing Cuddy is back.
I have turned on the game to see Cuddyer swing at a ridiculous pitch for strike three and then fail to call Punto off on a fly ball that should have been his. Wake up!!!!!!!!
Until we get anothe 2nd..
harris will work…
Coming into today, Harris has 139 PAs batting second.
In those 139 PAs, he’s ‘hit’ .215/.237/.277
That doesn’t ‘work’ for me Greg.
Looks like Cuddy is getting in a day of rest without actually leaving the lineup.
RALLY!!!
Good pitching will beat good hitting every time. They have a VERY good pitcher going tonight & we are sending out only 5 or 6 good hitters. Please trade for another good hitter! We need to add depth to the lineup.
The Twins are competing in the division, ticket sales are high. What incentive do the Pohlads have to trade for somebody? The ‘return on investment’ will not be high enough for the Pohlads to pull the trigger on that business decision.
hey, Did Bert play in the majors? How would we know beside the fact he has already mentioned it 23 times. Unlistenable!!!
Punto and Blyleven for pirates single A first baseman and ball bag
Gardenhire is dolt, I can’t stand this any more.
You leave Perkins in to face Konerko, and then bring in Dickey to face a LH batter.
Perkins should not have even started if he is not well. Way to Gardy tax the bullpen, and another game of pissing down your leg. I hope they blow it WIDE open. Maybe a message can get sent then!
Time to do some channel surfing, I’m getting too frustrated…… see ya’.
The inexorable gravity of .500 just seems to be too strong for this team to break.
a break in the clouds? or an illusion?
Leaving Perkins in to face Konerko looms pretty large now.
Punto sucks, Willie Mays Hays, give me 10 pushups you bum
Way to give Gomez a chance to steal, Punto.
Crede’s the man. Thank you Cuddy for striking out and not hitting into the dp.
What is Dickey doing here?
What is Dickey doing here?
Knuckleballing.
I warned you about this all year.
You take the good with the bad with a knuckleballer.
Have the Twins conceded? Time for a new pitcher.
All around these Twins suckkkkkkkkkkkkk.
Ok now I now the Twins have conceded.
Thanks, R.A.
Yea time for a new pitcher but not duensing vs thome. god dangit thats the game i think
“You take the good with the bad with a knuckleballer.”
i know what you’re saying, but you take the good with the bad with any pitcher. and there’s been WAY more good than bad with dickey.
Sadly though lately Dickey has not been very good. Hopely he gets back on track soon. Thome the Twins killer. Was Duensing really the best option there?
Dickey didn’t get one close pitch. The ump handed the Sox those runs.
i know what you’re saying, but you take the good with the bad with any pitcher. and there’s been WAY more good than bad with dickey.
He was useful when he was being used in a mopup role, and was pitching way over his head.
Duensing did his job. He got a broken bat blooper.
Gardy manages to put the worst possiblke option in the bullpen at critical times in the game. Another loss probably, Gardy partly to blame.
Doing his job would be getting out of the inning without 3 runs scoring.
At least Detroit is losing. Spoken like a true Twins fan.
I was sitting here telling myself Keppel was gonna come in with the bases loaded. How wrong I was
Doing his job would be getting out of the inning without 3 runs scoring.
Three runs that belong to R.A. Dickey, Nora.
Seriously, do you not understand baseball at all? He broke Thome’s bat. It was a lazy fly ball, that just happened to fall in a bad place, and was made worse by some terrible outfield defense.
gotta agree with you there, chief.
While I’m on a rant….how about you put the blame where it belongs?
If Bill Smith would provide his manager with a freakin’ bullpen, you wouldn’t have to bring R A Dickey into a 2 run game, and you’d have a lefty that could come in and put Thome away.
I blame Perkins. 4 1/2 innings is not going to get it done.
Put it on the boaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrddd. YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSsssss. Suck it Hawk!!! Go Crede.
A.J you’re a douche.
Do we have to give up runs every inning?
Nice play Morneau.
Hawk, you’re the biggest homer out there.
“Stretch, stretch, stretch” that’s what Hawk’s wife said.
I’d trade Punto for Sanchez.
Once again, where were Mauer and Morneau when needed them? Way to kill the rally.
I’d trade Punto for 8 million dollars.
I’d trade Punto for 8.5 million dollars.
I saw that in Little League a lot. Runner takes off from first and befuddles the infield.
Butch boy ready to screw things up.
Took one for the team.
Walk off granny time.
…or game ending dp. Let’s see.
Big boy is sweating though.
Just missed.
If Morales can’t do it, Span can.
Good job Morales.
Delmon as a pinch runner, yuk. Come on Span.
Span no dp.
I said no dp.
A loss is a loss.
…sigh…
I can’t wait for another great “Twins Instructional”. It is definitely some of the finest entertainment on television and a must see for all baseball fans. Seriously, how can anyone justify spending 15 minutes of air time putting that crap on. If they can’t fill their postgame show with 30 minutes of something worthwhile, they should just cut it to 15 minutes. Those ‘instructional’ are just brutal.
that one pitch right before they pulled dickey should of been a strike damn crooked umps!!
Some observations from the Southwest: Perkins pitched with enough fire to make Baker look macho (time will tell); Gardy and his pitchers get little respect, even at home, from umpires (perhaps due to their respective lack of a reputation); R.A. Dickey showed more emotion in this game than anyone; A.J. works the strike zone (as the catcher)and the home plate ump as well as anyone; Joe Mauer’s swing has disappeared prior to and not after the All-Star H.R. Derby; and lastly, congrats to Brad Radke for being installed into the Twins HOF but your extended, slow-paced remarks seem to have left your former teammates with the same slow start for which you were so famous (just joking). And, oh yeah, Gardy’s vaunted NY Yankees gave up 14 runs to an LA Angels team playing without both Torii Hunter and Vladimir Guerrero. Amazing!
this team showed some fight! win the series tomorrow!
I doubt Mauer swing will ‘disappear’ for long.
Right, stink. One thought from the Great North:
DON’T GIVE THOME ANYTHING TO HIT!
EVER!
Ms. Nora, What a brave remark regarding Joe Mauer’s swing…I guess the humor didn’t translate. And Mr. stinky, let us hope the Twin’s win manana, take the series 2-1, finish the home stand with a 4-5 record and enter the All-Star break one game over .500. What a truly successful year we are, indeed, experiencing!
A brutal ten game roadtrip to Texas, Oakland and Anaheim right after the All Star Break. If their starting pitching doesn’t shape up, the Twins might be sellers rather than buyers by the trade deadline.
We need more offense. Start Morales at 2nd base. Have him bat 2nd.
Make Thome a Twin next year. He can DH and Kubel can take left.
Thome has been available a few times over the years. He says he would hate to play in Minnesota. Can’t say as I blame him, his stats would take a dive not having Twins pitching to hit.
8. N Punto MIN SS 6 16 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 4 1 0 .286 .063 .063
1 for 16 in last 6 games
does it even deserve a comment
Win or lose on sunday, this homestand is a colossal failure. They finally show some life on a good road trip(where admittedly they shoulda won 1 or 2 more) then come home and pee down their collective legs. The Yankee series was an embarassment, as the depleted Angels have proven the last 2 days. Now with Twin killer Buerhle on the mound tomorrow this is a 3-6 homestand against your likely 1st round opponent should you win the central, and the 2 teams you need to beat out in order TO win the central. This team flat out does not have it this year. They never did. They never will. For the next 3 months they are going to do just enough not to fall completely out of the race, and they will fail to do enough to take this soft division by the throat. I think we all know this deep down, much as we hope by some miracle they start playing to their ability.
ever since morneau ‘tweaked’ his groin, it seems he’s been struggling at the plate.
might be more to it. especially in light of his turning down multiple invites to the HR derby.
lets hope he heals over the break, cuz i get a feeling he’s been ‘toughing it out’.
maybe i’m just a wingnut 
