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8:10 pm EDT Fri Apr 23, 2010

Aside from Carl Pavano’s terrible outing, the Minnesota Twins had a mostly successful series against the Kansas City Royals this past weekend. The Twins, opening a nine-game road trip Friday night, hope a change of venue will help Pavano avoid another poor performance against the Royals. After a 6-3 homestand, Minnesota won’t be back at Target Field until May 3. The Twins had a chance to close the home stretch with their first sweep of the season, but lost 8-1 to Cleveland on Thursday to end a three-game set. Poor pitching hurt Minnesota, just as it did in its attempt to sweep Kansas City on Sunday. In the finale of that three-game series, Pavano gave up seven runs and 11 hits in 3 1-3 inning of a 10-5 loss. The right-hander, set to start the first of another three contests versus the Royals, is 4-5 with a 7.84 ERA in nine starts and one relief appearance against them. Pavano, though, has won his last three starts at Kansas City, posting a 4.26 ERA and getting 21 runs to work with.

Joe Mauer is expected to be Pavano’s batterymate after getting a day off. Minnesota had a quick turnaround after beating the Indians 6-0 on Wednesday night. Mauer went 5 for 8 in the final two games of the last series against Kansas City. The Twins will again be facing Gil Meche, who like Pavano endured a rough outing during that set. Meche surrendered five runs and walked four in six innings of a 6-5 loss Saturday. Still, it was an improvement over his first start of the season, when the veteran right-hander gave up seven runs in 3 1-3 innings of an 8-6 defeat to Boston on April 11. Meche is 9-6 with a 4.79 ERA in 20 starts against the Twins. Kansas City got a strong performance from ace Zach Greinke against Toronto on Wednesday, but needed a solo home run from Alex Gordon in the 10th inning to win 4-3.