J.A. Happ takes the mound as Twins face Central-leading White Sox

CHICAGO — The White Sox have been good over the past two seasons, but have been especially good facing left handed starters. They were 14-0 against lefty starters last season, and 7-1 this year.

So Twins lefthander J.A. Happ (2-0, 1.91 ERA) is in the firing line tonight as he pitches against Chicago portsider Dallas Keuchel (1-1, 3.79) at Guaranteed Rate Field (7:10 p.m., MLB, BSN).

The White Sox, who lead the AL Central and are eight games up on the Twins, won 9-3 on Monday in the series opener.

Randball took a look at the team's offensive failures this morning.

TWINS LINEUP

Kyle Garlick, RF

Josh Donaldson, 3B

Mitch Garver, C

Jorge Polanco, 2B

Miguel Sano, 1B

Max Kepler, CF

Andrelton Simmons, SS

WHITE SOX LINEUP

Tim Anderson, SS

Nick Madrigal, 2B

Yoan Moncada, 3B

Jose Abreu, 1B

Yasmani Grandal, C

Andrew Vaughn, LF

Billy Hamilton, CF