It was a pitching duel tonight with the starters Joe Ryan and Sean Burke exchanging zeros for the first 3 innings before the Twins scored first in the 4th. Trevor Larnach started things off with a double, then Kody Clemens drove him in with a triple. A single by Austin Martin scored Clemens to give the Twins a 2-0 lead.
This lead would stick with Ryan through 7 shutout innings. In the 8th, however, a hanging sweeper to Munetaka Murakami would be hit over the right field wall for a game-tying two run
homer. Joe was brilliant tonight, otherwise, striking out 9 over 7.2 innings, but just one bad pitch in the 8th slated him with the no-decision.
Meanwhile, the Twins couldn’t get much of anything going against Sean Burke and company, as 12 straight Twins batters were retired by Chicago pitchers after the fourth inning.
The game moved to extra innings, and, with 2-outs, Orlando Arcia got a single to right field, but Clemens was thrown out by Rikuu Nishida (his second assist in as many games).
Going to the bottom of the 10th, Taylor Rogers came in to pitch and got Nishida to strike out, then Sam Antonacci hit an infield single advancing Luisangel Acuna to 3rd. Then Rogers got Murakami to ground to 1st baseman Josh Bell, who stepped on first and Antonacci just sort of backed up and left the base path for an inning ending unassisted double play.
In the top of the 11th, Luke Keaschall singled to 3rd, then Byron Buxton walked after James Outman’s 4th strikeout of the night, loading the bases for Brooks Lee. In the biggest at bat of the night, Lee lined a double down the right field line, scoring 3, and giving the Twins a 5-2 lead going into the bottom of the 11th.
The Twins would call on Yoendrys Gomez to pick up the save. He got Vargas to fly out, and Colson Montgomery to strikeout. Chase Meidroth picked up an RBI single to left, but Gomez got Randal Grichuk to ground out to end the game and give the Twins their second extra inning win of the season.
Studs:
Brooks Lee: 2-5, 2B, 3 RBI
Joe Ryan: 7.2 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 9 K
Taylor Rogers (W): 1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 K
Duds:
NO DUDS TWINS WIN!!
