It’s a prime pitching matchup to kick things off, and a re-match for the starting pitchers from early May. The Spiders call upon Tanner Bibee while Joe Ryan answers the bell for the Twins. The game in early May was the one where Byron Buxton homered off of Bibee on the third pitch of the contest. Kyle Manzardo had an RBI single off of Ryan to tie it up in the bottom of the fourth. Then it was goose eggs until Buxton doubled in the top of the 11th to bring in Matt Wallner (remember him?) and Luis Garcia (remember him, too?) shut things down for once.

Good news: Buxton has been activated off of the injured list and is in the lineup tonight. The corresponding move was optioning Tristan Gray to St Paul, so we won’t have to see him flop around like a fish at shortstop… for the time being.

Byron Buxton! – CF

Travis Bazzana – 2B

Joe Ryan – RHP

Tanner Bibee – RHP

Trevor Larnach – LF

Steven Kwan – LF

Kody Clemens – 2B

Chase DeLauter – RF

Josh Bell – DH

Brayan Rocchio – SS

Royce Lewis – 1B

Rhys Hoskins – DH

Victor Caratini – C

Daniel Schneemann – 3B

Brooks Lee – 3B

David Fry – 1B

Alan Roden – RF

Patrick Bailey – C

Ryan Kreidler – SS

Petey Halpin – CF