Twins hold on

Well that was fast game.

The Rays added a run in the eight when Elliot Johnson hit a ground rule double to right-center that bounced off a flag pole beyond the fence and bounced back to the playing field. Aki followed with a single to make it 4-2 Twins, and that’s how it ended.

Shields took his first loss of the spring.

The game took 2 hours, nine minutes, quick for any time of year.

There were 7,968 people in the park, which gave the Twins their seventh sellout of the spring.

You could attribute some of that to the Red Sox having left their camp on the other side of town for the season-opener in Japan or maybe the Rays are big down here.

Who knows?

The Rays are back in action at 1:05 p.m. Thursday when they help the Indians close Chain O’Lakes Park in Winter Haven. It’s the first of two stadiums the Rays will close in two days.

Friday, of course, is the finale at Al Lang.

Check in with me Thursday for all the action and maybe some Chain O’Lakes trivia.

This is Roger Mooney saying goodbye from Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers.