Game 8: Astros at Twins

First Pitch: 7:10 pm CDT

TV: FSN

Radio: WCCO 830, TIBN

Know Thine Enemy: The Crawfish Boxes

Relatively speaking, this should be a nice, warm temperature at first pitch. It is projected to be 36 degrees. That's just inhumane conditions for baseball if you ask me, but I'll be watching on TV anyway.

The Twins send Lance Lynn to the mound for the second time, and hopefully it works out a bit better than it did in Pittsburgh, where he gave up five runs in the first inning. If you take out that first inning though, he wasn't too terrible, so there is hope.

He faces an old foe for the Twins, Justin Verlander. Joe Mauer has hit four home runs against Verlander. That's more than any other pitcher in baseball. Can we get a Mauer dinger tonight? That would be great. He's only a few hits away from 2000, but it probably won't happen in this game.

Line ups!