Minnesota Twins Call up Rene Rivera

The Minnesota Twins called up Rene Rivera to back up Drew Butera in the absence of Joe Mauer.

Mauer is still plagued by the mysterious disablement of bi-lateral leg weakness.

With Mauer gone, the organization has been grasping at straws to fill the offensive position Mauer boasts in the lineup. However, Butera and Steve Holm have struggled mightily to give to team any kind of hit or run production at the plate.

Butera is hitting .111 with a .158 on-base percentage while Holm hit .118 in six games. Not the kind of production the Twins need right now.

Rivera, who is still considered an improvement as far as batting averages go, is only hitting .200 in Triple-A.

The Twins are currently last in the AL in batting average (.230), runs (89) and home runs (13).

Maybe the Twins should consider giving away more of those sweet WeFest Cowboy hats before people decide to stop showing up... Those would be the bandwagon fans I am talking about... Who cares about a silly WeFest hat?

LiriaNo-No

Liriano, who just so happened to throw his first professional complete game also threw his first no-hitter.

I watched this game and saw for myself how the men in blue helped Liriano achieve such a feat - they helped him in a big way.

It has been dubbed 'the out that wasn't'.

With pinch-runner Brent Lillibridge (White Sox) on first and only one out in the eight, Gordon Beckham (White Sox) jumped on the first pitch and hit a one-hopper to Danny Valencia. Valencia cleanly handled the ball and executed a perfect throw to Alexi Casilla, who was manning second base.

Casilla, wanting a perfect throw to Morneau, took his time making the toss and, unfortunately the throw pulled Morneau off the bag down the first base line toward the catcher... and Beckham. Morneau took a swipe at Beckham and clearly missed him (this was apparent to viewers at home who were provided a slow replay), but first-base umpire Paul Emmel called Beckham out to end the inning and to keep the no-hitter alive!

The out that wasn't.

In this amazing win, Liriano threw 123 pitches to catcher Drew Butera.

Now a game with the White Sox would be more than disappointing, even if it is a Twins no-hitter, if we weren't privy to an outburst by Ozzie Guillen. Lucky for us, the Morneau-Beckham play resulted in Ozzie storming the field in protest... Guillen made it as far as the third-base line before turning around and walking back in to the dugout.

Looks like our man Guillen has grown somewhat of an expert as to when arguing is appropriate - he is learning to pick is battles instead of battling all the time. I know I'm disappointed and I was disappointed that night too when I saw Guillen emerge from the dugout. I hopped right on Twitter to see what he would have to say... That lesson appears to be learned as well.

Ozzie Guillen needs to revert back to his old ways before I lose interest and start following Kobe Bryant's outbursts instead - now he knows how to start a media frenzy.