Recent call-up Alex Kirilloff found a hole in the left side to knock in the tying run, and then Minnesota clutch folk hero Gio Urshela followed with a two-strike three-run bomba to put the good guys ahead for good.Įmilio Pagan bounced back from his poor showing yesterday to strike out the side in the 8th. A rare Gary Sanchez single followed, sending Kepler to third. With two outs and none on in the bottom of the 7th, Max Kepler walked to get a rally started. However, the Twins would strike back tonight. Amed Rosario (2 HR on the year now) and Oscar Gonzalez (also 2 HR on the year now) smacked a solo shot and a 2-run homer, respectively, to cause Twins fans everywhere much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Unfortunately, the Twins went down quietly in the bottom of the inning, and then Cleveland had the good fortune to hit off of Jharel Cotton in the 7th.Ĭotton, pitching in high-ish leverage after being DFA’ed TWICE earlier this season, gave up home runs to two noted power hitters to allow Cleveland to take the lead. Joe Smith was next up to pitch for the Twins, and did his job (barely), wiggling out of a jam after a hit and a walk to finish a clean 6th inning. With the game tightened up to 5-4 in favor of the home team, Max Kepler went yard to tack on another run. Caleb Thielbar allowed a third run to score on a balk (yeah, seriously) after coming in for relief, but settled down to pitch 1.1 innings without allowing another run to cross. He did start the fifth inning, but was pulled after giving up two runs before recording an out. Sonny Gray was more cloudy tonight, giving up 4 runs (3 earned) in 4.0 innings of work. Ryan Jeffers also continued to contribute, knocking in Gio Urshela on two separate occasions- one on a double, one on a bunt single (wow).Ĭleveland was not going to lay down and lose tonight, however especially not against the Twins ‘pen with Jhoan Duran and Griffin Jax (presumably, more on that later) unavailable. Instead, as usual, reality is much worse for Minnesota fans.Ĭarlos Correa could have been the star tonight, mashing two solo home runs in his first two at-bats to gave the Twins an early-game lead. That’s what I was going to write had the Twins actually won. There are plenty of negative takeaways from today’s game, but sometimes you’ve got to win ugly and the Twins did just that tonight.
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