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FORT MYERS, FL – MARCH 16: Kyle Gibson #44 of the Minnesota Twins warms up prior to the start of the Spring Training Game against the Boston Red Sox on March 16, 2016 at CenturyLink Sports Complex and Hammond Stadium, Fort Myers, Florida. (Photo by Leon Halip\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Moment: The Tigers wrapped this game up early, and then kept pounding the Twins, likely in retaliation for the Twins’ Miguel Sano having the gall to react unfavorably when thrown at and mushed in the face by the catcher. Alex Avila, the catcher for today’s game, stepped in and bopped a dinger\u00a0in the 2nd to give the Tigers their first lead.<\/p>\n

The Hero: Jim Adduci has his moment in the sun. The 31 year old has only had 148 career at bats before today’s game, and went 3-4 with 2 run double. \u00a0Hard to be mad at a guy with a history like that. You have permission to be plenty mad with the pitching staff, however.<\/p>\n

The Goat: Kyle Gibson, stop that! It was another bad outing for Twins pitchers, and this time, they likely won’t be doing anything to\u00a0the rotation afterwards. Gibson’s outing was far more troubling than Mejia’s yesterday,\u00a0working the same length with half the strikeouts and twice the runs. But yeah, Mejia is the problem.<\/p>\n

The Soundtrack: In the City – The Eagles. Through the next few days, that city will be Arlington. They were awesome there last season, let’s see if it continues.<\/p>\n

The Story: It’s always a good time when a position player has to come in to\u00a0pitch, but the irony was a little thick today. The Twins reduced their pitching staff by one, and immediately, like, the very next game, Chris Gimenez needed to come in and work a third of an inning. That’s just comedic right there. \u00a0Gimenez worked his third of an inning, and probably had one of hte best outings of the day. Buddy Boshers was the most effective pitcher of the game (and was subsequently sent back to Rochester, presumably in favor of a starter) while Gibson, Michael Tonkin and Ryan Pressly left a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n

This was the Tigers’ B squad too. In addition to having Avila in to catch replace Twins killer James McCann, they also had Adduci and former Twins frahand\u00a0John Hicks at first base. All three were critical to the Tigers’ success. Hicks batted in 5 runs for Detroit. It was his season debut, as it was with Adduci. That’s terrible!<\/p>\n

The Twins offense struggled to make contact, but when they did, it was pretty solid. Max Kepler and Eddie Rosario each homered\u00a0for the Twins, but that counted for 1\/3rd of the team’s hits. They struck out 9 times, which is bad especially because Byron Buxton had the day off. We are now to the point in the season that we expected. The offense is clubbing some dingers,\u00a0and they are scoring a handful of runs every time out, but their pitching is breathtakingly awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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