Twins: White Sox in town, is it time to escape from last place?

White Sox (62-75)

Adam Eaton, CF
Alexei Ramirez, SS
Avisail Garcia, RF
Dayan Viciedo, DH
Paul Konerko, 1B
Michael Taylor, LF
Tyler Flowers, C
Marcus Semien, 3B
Carlos Sanchez, 2B

Twins (60-77)

Danny Santana, CF
Brian Dozier, 2B
Joe Mauer, 1B
Kennys Vargas, DH
Trevor Plouffe, 3B
Oswaldo Arcia, RF
Kurt Suzuki, C
Eduardo Escobar, SS
Jordan Schafer, LF

Tommy Milone, LHP

Twins manager Ron Gardenhire alluded to his team and the White Sox playing in, ``our own little race, and that's not good."

The Twins make up the caboose of the AL Central train right now, with Chicago sitting two games ahead. The Twins, who lead the season series 8-6, could take a couple steps toward getting out of last place. And it would get their September off to a good start. Remember, the Twins were 8-20 last September as everything fell apart en route to another 96-loss season.

The Twins have dealt Josh Willingham, Kevin Correia, Kendrys Morales and Sam Fuld and have a bunch of September callups on hand. The White Sox have dealt Adam Dunn, Alejandro De Aza and Gordon Beckham, in addition to their callups. The Twins are waiting a day to start some the newcomers while the White Sox are firing out Michael Taylor and Marcus Semien tonight.

Aaron Hicks met with the media before before the game, sounding more confident than he did the last time he was in the Twins uniform. Heard that he's cutting down on his swing, working on making more contact and worrying less about power.