For the first time in his brief Twins career, Marwin Gonzalez looked awkward in the field.

With a man on in the third, Mike Trout of the Angels flicked a single to right field on Monday night. Gonzalez, making his first career start and fifth appearance in right field, closed in to field the ball, but the ball appeared to take bad hop. Gonzalez couldn't adjust in time, and the ball bounced by him and toward the wall. A run scored, and Trout advanced up on third.
After the game, which the Twins lost 5-4, Gonzalez was asked if he overran the ball.
"Yes, I think I did," he said. "I don't want to say it was a weird hop because that would be an excuse. I overran that."
Gonzalez has made one error at third, first and now right field. But there's no question that can handle any defensive assignment Twins manager Rocco Baldelli asks him to. He's made a handful of strong plays. From left field, he threw out the Yankees' Luke Voit twice in the same in New York as he attempted to advance to second. Gonzalez is agile and has quite an arm.
And he had no problem playing right field on Monday.
"This was my first start ever in right field," he said. "I have played before but less than 10 times in the middle of the game. This is the first error though, thank God. I feel good there.
"Rocco told me in spring training I was going to be a choice against lefties when he had to give Kepler an offday. It's always fun to learn no matter how good you play the position. There's always room to get better and that's my mindset."