- Kris Richardson
Kris is the founder and developer of MNTwinsNation.com. He is a life-long Twins fan who grew up in Fargo, ND. He is now a student and web developer based in Minneapolis, MN. His all-time favorite Twin is Kirby Puckett (big surprise) and he hopes to eventually be able to entirely erase the days of Scott Stahoviak and Rich Becker from his memory.
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Recent Entries by Kris
- All-Star Recognition
- Much to my surprise, Joe Mauer, took the lead in All-Star balloting for AL Catchers in today’s weekly update of the vote totals. He’s narrowly edging out Boston’s Jason Varitek....
- Sweeping again
- The Twins completed their second consecutive sweep, again coming against a National league team at the Metrodome. On Sunday, they defeated one of the NL’s best right-handed pitchers,...
- Monroe's homers beat Boston
- It’s hard to believe, but Sunday night’s game was the first multi-homer game for the Twins of the season. Not by one player, but for the whole team. In fact, the Twins had 3 homers. Craig...
- This offense has issues
- The big news of the week was Francisco Liriano’s demotion to AAA Rochester, which came as no surprise after his 3rd start of the season lasted just 2/3rds of an inning. However, the biggest...
- Boof robbed again
- Boof Bonser put together another start worthy of a win, but his offense again failed to provide decent run support. The offense was shut out by Chad Guadin in a close 3-0 game. In Boof’s 5...
- Weekend recap
- Three low scoring affairs ended in a series victory for the Twins against Central division rival Cleveland Indians. On Friday night the Twins were shut out while Francisco Liriano struggled again in...
- Twins win opener vs. Tampa Bay
- It looked the Twins might have been on the verge of giving up another lead when Livan Hernandez allowed 2 runs in the sixth, tying the ball game. Livan allowed 5 runs (3 earned) through six innings...
- Bullpen drops another one
- For the second straight night the bullpen gave up a late Twins’ lead. Three runs in the eighth inning were enough to put Detroit on top and hold off a small ninth inning rally from the Twins....
- Late lead slips away
- The Twins seemed on their way to handing the Tigers their 11th loss of the young season before the Tigers broke out for 11 runs in their final three innings at the plate to defeat the Twins by a score...
- Believe it: Livan is 3-0
- First, Francisco Liriano has been recalled to pitch on Sunday against the Royals. Slowey has been placed on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 4th. After Thursday’s rainout, that comes as a...