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MINNEAPOLIS —Maybe the Minnesota Twins should wait until the night before to
tell Brian Duensing hes starting. Dez Bryant Elite Jersey . This short-notice
outing sure went well. Justin Morneau hit a two-run homer, Duensing threw six
smooth innings as a late fill-in for Francisco Liriano and the Minnesota Twins
finished a three-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians with a 5-1 victory on
Sunday. Duensings Twitter followers started asking him if he was starting after
the Liriano trade was finalized late Saturday night with the Chicago White Sox.
Weird, he thought. Well, he went to the teams website and saw the news. Then he
sent a text message to pitching coach Rick Anderson to confirm it. “He said,
Yeah, and asked if I was OK with it,” Duensing said. “Im not going to say no.”
Duensing (2-6) lost all four of his previous starts this year, but he needed
only 70 pitches to finish six frames and yield to the bullpen after scattering
five singles without a walk, giving up one run and striking out two. “I think he
kind of likes that: not preparing and just going out there and throwing the
ball,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. “I think he enjoyed that part of it.
He did a really nice job.” Ubaldo Jimenez (8-10) worked into the seventh and
struck out six, but the Indians lost for the eighth time in their last 11 games.
They were a season-high 5 1/2 games out of first place in the AL Central when
the game began, behind the Chicago White Sox. They havent been two games under
.500 since mid-April. “We came in here with high hopes to keep it going, and it
wasnt that way. We couldnt do anything,” Jimenez said. Duensing has a 3.12 ERA
in 33 relief appearances in 2012, but he had struggled in the starters role,
allowing 15 runs, 23 hits and five homers over 13 1-3 innings in his prior
turns. But the Twins have refused to give up on him, believing his array of
pitches is deep enough to work through several innings rather than just facing a
handful of batters. With Liriano gone and the starters a collective last in the
league in ERA, the 29-year-old Duensing still has ample room to carve out a
permanent place for him in Minnesotas starting five. “Id like to be a starter,
but I dont feel like Im in a spot to go in there and demand it or anything,”
Duensing said. This was a solid audition. Shelley Duncans bloop single that
barely carried over shortstop Brian Doziers head to put the Indians in front in
the fourth, but Morneaus soaring shot into the flower bed over the 23-foot wall
in right-centre field came in the bottom of that inning. Ben Revere had two
hits, two steals and two RBIs for the Twins. He doubled in the fifth, moved up
on a balk and score on a wild pitch by Jimenez to stretch the lead to two in the
fifth. “Everything that could go wrong went wrong,” Indians manager Manny Acta
said. Jimenez walked Denard Span, his last batter. After a double steal by
Dozier and Span, Tony Sipp gave up a two-run, one-out single to Revere to make
it 5-1. “The first two games were awful,” Duncan said. “We needed to pull today
out, and we just didnt get it done.” This was the third series sweep this year
by the Twins, who outscored the Indians 28-6 and are batting .325 with 18 homers
in their last 13 home games. “Definitely a good feeling, coming out of Chicago
where we just got swept,” Span said, adding: “It starts with starting pitching.
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in 115 games over three seasons, moved within one RBI of matching Gary Gaetti
for fifth place on the teams all-time list with 756. ... The Indians are off
Monday and start a three-game series in Kansas City on Tuesday. RHP Derek Lowe
(8-9, 5.09 ERA), who has won only two of his last 12 starts, takes the mound.
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error in the ninth inning Friday night.ALDIE, Va. —Jim Woodward shot a 6-under
66 on Saturday to match the competitive course record at Creighton Farms and
take the third-round lead in the Senior PGA Professional National Championship.
The 55-year-old Woodward, the PGA teaching professional at Oak Tree National
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