A handful of extras from the Twins' second 1-0 win in four seasons:

— It couldn't have been easy for Tommy Milone, who said his demotion to Class AAA Rochester was "a little bit of a shock," but the lefthander took questions after getting the news Friday night. He said he understood the Twins' reasoning, that it's better for him to keep starting, even in the minor leagues, than trying to learn how to pitch out of the bullpen at the major-league level. After all, the Twins' rotation hasn't been very stable for a few years now. He also goes down to Rochester with a goal: Throw strikes. He's walked 11 batters in 22 1/3 innings this season, which he figures is the main reason he's no longer in the rotation. "I've just got to attack the hitters," Milone said. "That's one thing I'm going to do when I get down there — make sure I attack hitters and eliminate those free base runners."

— Thielbar was sent back to Rochester as well, and Molitor called the decisions "difficult." In Thielbar's case, it was numbers, not results, that cost him his job. "Caleb threw the ball better up here than I saw throughout the spring," Molitor said of the Northfield native, who allowed a run in only one of his six appearances last month. "It wasn't a matter of what he did wrong, as much as how things fit now."

— With the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position in the ninth inning, Paul Molitor made a rare visit to the mound where he didn't remove the pitcher. His message to closer Glen Perkins was a simple one, involving whether Perkins wanted to walk the next batter, Tyler Flowers. "I didn't ask him," Molitor said. "I said, 'I don't want to walk this guy.' It was a brief meeting." The manager knew that light-hitting center fielder J.B. Shuck was up after Flowers, and the Sox had already used most of their bench. "But you've got your guy out there," Molitor said of Perkins. "I'm going after [Flowers]." It was a good call — Perkins needed only three pitches, all fastballs 94 or 95 mph, to strike out Flowers, the last one without a swing.

— Molitor on Kennys Vargas' seventh-inning single to deep right field, which Avisail Garcia cut off before it reached the wall, then threw Vargas out by 10 feet at second base: "We encourage aggressiveness. But that one was more imaginative than anything else."