Some interesting stuff from last night's game.
Cleveland starter Carlos Carrasco pitched well and has a pretty impressive change up.``I thought it was a curveball," Denard Span said. ``I had to go back and look at the tape and saw it was change up."
Still, it was surprising that Carrasco dominated a pretty good Twins lineup. I pointed out in my early story some of the top pitchers the Twins have beaten - Tim Hudson, Johan Santana, Trevor Cahill, Zack Greinke, David Price among them - so they know how to beat good pitching.
Carrasco hadn't faced the Twins before, and that often is a big factor. Twins players were coming back to the dugout talking about how nasty Carrasco was, and they never solved him.
+++Gardy spoke with lefthander Randy Flores this morning after Flores gave up singles to the two lefties he faced in the 11th - Chin-Soo Choo and Travis Hafner.
Both were on fastballs.
``If I wanted a fastball thrown I would have put a righthander in," Gardenhire said.
A White Sox scout here said this morning that all the scouts in the stands were wondering the same thing. Twins catcher Joe Mauer was calling for breaking balls but Flores was shaking him off. Flores told Gardy that he had been giving up hits off his breaking balls lately.
