MINNESOTA TWINS (59-77) AT BALTIMORE ORIOLES (79-56) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 - 1:35 (ET) - FOX SPORTS NORTH / TREASURE ISLAND BASEBALL NETWORK Phil Hughes (R, 14-9, 3.70) vs. Kevin Gausman (R, 7-6, 3.84) GAME 137 ROAD GAME 71 UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE Date Opponent Probable Pitchers Time Television Radio / Spanish Radio 9/2 vs. Chicago Tommy Milone (L, 6-4, 4.21) vs. Hector Noesi (R, 8-9, 4.79) 7:10 pm Fox Sports North TIBN: KTWIN 9/3 vs. Chicago Trevor May (R, 0-4, 10.42) vs. John Danks (L, 9-9, 4.88) 7:10 pm Fox Sports North TIBN: KTWIN 9/4 vs. Los Angeles (AL) Kyle Gibson (R, 11-10, 4.23) vs. Hector Santiago (L, 4-7, 3.28) 7:10 pm Fox Sports North TIBN: KTWIN 9/5 vs. Los Angeles (AL) Ricky Nolasco (R, 5-10, 5.96) vs. Matt Shoemaker (R, 14-4, 3.14) 7:10 pm Fox Sports North TIBN: KTWIN 9/6 vs. Los Angeles (AL) Phil Hughes (R) vs. TBA 6:10 pm Fox Sports North TIBN: KTWIN 9/7 vs. Los Angeles (AL) Tommy Milone (L) vs. C.J. Wilson (L) 1:10 pm Fox Sports North TIBN: KTWIN TWINS AT A GLANCE THE TWINS: The Twins began their seven-game road trip by going 1-2 in Kansas City, fol- STREAKS lowed by three straight losses here in Baltimore...today the Twins will continue their only trip ..........................................59-77 Record: of 2014 to Baltimore, playing the fourth and final game at Camden Yards...the Twins have Current Streak: ..............................3 losses Home Record: ................................29-37 Last 5 games: ........................................1-4 Road Record: .................................30-40 gone 30-40 on the road this season, going 4-6 in their last 10 and 12-13 in their last 25 Record in series: ........................17-22-5 away from Target Field. Last 10 games: ......................................3-7 Series Openers: .............................15-29 Last 15 games: ....................................4-11 Series Finales: ...............................23-20 TWINS LOSE SLUGFEST IN BALTIMORE: The Twins lost yesterday to the Orioles by a score of Last 20 games: ....................................7-13 Rubber Games: ................................12-4 12-8...Ricky Nolasco (5-10) was the starter and loser as he worked 5.0 innings allowing eight Sweeps/Swept: .................................. 3/6 runs on 12 hits (two home runs)...he walked two and hit two batters...Aaron Thompson made TWINS VS. BALTIMORE March/April: ...................................12-12 May: ...............................................13-16 his Twins debut with 1.1 scoreless innings, including striking out his first batter to strand the 2014 Record: .........................................2-4 June: ..............................................12-16 bases loaded...the Twins did scatter 15 hits including three from each Brian Dozier and Chris Current Streak: ...............................3 losses July: ................................................11-15 Parmelee...Dozier added a double and scored two runs...Parmelee knocked in two runs...Jordan 2014 at Home: .......................................2-1 August: ...........................................11-18 Schafer extended his hitting streak to 11 games as he went 2-for-4 with an RBI...every hitter in 2014 at Baltimore: .................................0-3 September: .............................................. the Twins lineup had at least one hit but they went just 3-for-13 with runners in scoring position. All-Time Record: ........................... 275-324 vs. American League East: ..............13-18 All-Time at Home: ..........................148-152 vs. American League Central: .........28-30 OFFENSIVE AUGUST: The Twins hit an American League best .277 (287-for-1035) All-Time at Baltimore:....................127-172 vs. American League West: .............11-19 this month with a major league best 71 doubles...in fact, the Twins ranked among vs. National League: ..........................7-10 2014 Game Logs: Games vs. LH Starter:......................18-26 baseball’s best in several offensive categories last month...here is a closer look: Games vs. RH Starter: .....................41-51 AUGUST TOTAL MLB RANK Date Site Score Winner/Loser/Save Twins score first: .............................40-26 Doubles 71* 1st 5/2 MIN 0-3 Jimenez/Nolasco/Hunter Opp. scores first: .............................19-51 Runs 159 1st 5/3 MIN 6-1 Correia/Chen Come-from-behind wins: .....................29 RBI 151 1st Leading after 7/8 inn.: ..............41-4/44-3 5/4 MIN 5-2 Hughes/Gonzalez/Perkins OBP .340 2nd 8/29 BAL 1-9 Gonzalez/May Trailing after 7/8 inn.: .............8-67/6-67 Average .277 2nd Tied after 7/8 inn.: ......................10-6/9-7 Hits 287* 2nd 8/30 BAL 2-3 Miller/Burton/Britton Extra-innings: ......................................5-5 Slugging .441 2nd 8/31 BAL 8-12 Chen/Nolasco/Britton 1-run games: ...................................17-21 9/1 BAL Twins out-hit opp.: ...........................35-11 *The 287 hits were the most in a calendar month since they recorded 289 in July of 2010 while Opp. out-hit Twins: .........................16-62 ROAD TRIP (1-5) .......................8-4 their 71 doubles is a Twins record and the most in franchise history since the 1938 Washington Twins/Opp. have = hits: Senators recorded 76 in June of 1933. Twins get Quality Start: ...................41-14 Batting Average ............ .251 (53-for-211) Twins starter goes 6+ IP:................44-30 Most games over .500: ..................2, 5/23 LOOKING TO AVOID THE SWEEP: The Twins are looking to avoid being swept for the seventh Runs Per-Game ...................4.0 (24 R/6 G) Most games under .500: ................18, 9/1 time this season, but they have yet to be swept in four games...the last time the Twins were Home Runs .............................................2 Longest winning-streak: ......... 4, 6/19-22 swept by the Orioles was April 6-8, 2012 (3 games), the last time they were swept in four RISP ................................ .250 (13-for-52) Longest losing-streak: ........5, 2x, 6/24-28 games was August 22-25, 2011 in Minnesota but the last time they were swept in at least Fielding Errors ........................................2 When Twins score 4+: .....................48-33 four games in Baltimore was July 1-3, 1966 when they were swept in five games. When Twins score 3-: ......................11-44 Team ERA .................6.66 (50.0 IP, 37 ER) Team-high hits: .................23, 8/3 at CWS OBJECT OF THE GAME: Brian Dozier has scored 97 runs this season - the highest total in Starters W-L ....................................... 0-3 Team-high runs: ............. 20, 8/22 vs. DET Starters ERA .............6.49 (34.2 IP, 25 ER) Opp.-high hits: .................... 19, 6/14 at DET the American League and the most by a Twins player since Denard Span scored 97 in 2009... Opp.-high runs: ................ 14, 6/8 vs. HOU the last Twins player to score 100 runs in a season was Michael Cuddyer when he scored Relievers W-L-S ...............................1-2-0 Twins get 10+ hits: ..........................28-21 102 times in 2006...Dozier is on pace to score 115 runs this season, which would be the Relievers ERA ...........7.04 (15.1 IP, 12 ER) Walk-Off W/L: ......................................5-6 most since Chuck Knoblauch scored 117 in 1997...Knoblauch owns the Twins record with Save/Opportunities ..............................0/2 Shutouts W/L: ....................................7/10 140 runs scored in 1996. Complete Games: ..2, last 6/17 Hughes at BOS Target Field Sellouts (’14/All-Time): ....... -/152 AIR JORDAN: Jordan Schafer has hit safely in 11 straight games, batting .421 (16-for-38) with three doubles, one triple, nine RBI, nine runs scored, six walks and a .500 on-base percentage in that span...the streak is a new career-long for Schafer...Schafer is hitting .333 RECENT TRANSACTIONS (25-for-75) with a .405 on-base percentage in 24 games as a Twin (claimed off waivers August 3); he was hitting .163 (13-for-80) with 7/24 RHP Pressly recalled from AAA a .256 on-base percentage with Atlanta earlier this season. RHP Pryor acquired, reports to AAA Since joining the Twins he is 11-for-12 in stolen base attempts...he is 26-for-29 on the season for a 89.7% success rate. INF Morales traded to Seattle A INF Polanco recalled from Single-A WRAPPING UP AN OFFENSIVE AUGUST: Below is how the March/April, May, June, July and August. August proved to be their best offensive 7/25 RHP Darnell recalled from AAA month of the season...numbers compared for hitters and pitchers: INF Polanco optioned to AA 7/31 LHP Milone acquired via trade with W-L IP H BB K ERA AVG H 2B HR R OBP OAK, in exchange for OF Fuld, Milone MAR/APR 12-12 217.2 241 82 137 5.04 .254 211 47 20 131 .353 optioned to AAA MAY 13-16 258.2 266 68 184 3.97 .230 227 49 22 92 .290 1B Vargas recalled from AA JUNE 12-16 242.1 247 65 175 4.20 .246 233 57 18 113 .318 8/3 OF Schafer claimed off waivers from ATL JULY 11-15 232.0 266 45 162 4.11 .247 217 45 19 99 .314 LHP Darnell optioned to AAA AUGUST 11-18 253.0 306 86 195 5.51 .277 287 71 28 159 .340 8/9 RHP May recalled from AAA 1B/DH Colabello optioned to AAA ROOKIE BALL: Danny Santana led all rookies in baseball this month with 41 hits, ahead of teammate Kennys Vargas (38)...41 hits were 8/9 Traded RHP Correia to Dodgers in the most for any rookie since Yasiel Puig had 44 in June of 2013...Santana hit .313 (41-for-131) with 23 runs scored last month while exchange for PTBNL Vargas hit .309 (38-for-123) with 17 runs scored...only Chicago’s Jose Abreu had a higher average among rookies in August (.376). 8/11 RHP Adams acquired via trade with KC, in exchange for OF Willingham, 40-MAN ROSTER MOVE: In addition to selecting to the contract of left-handed pitcher Aaron Thompson yesterday, the Twins outrighted Adams optioned AA left-handed pitcher Edgar Ibarra off the 40-man roster and assigned him to Double-A...the Twins roster now stands at 37 players.