If one tuned in early to Tuesday’s game between the Minnesota Twins and New York Yankees, it appeared they had clearly re-established their goliath/punching bag relationship as Gotham rushed out to a 10-1 lead through four innings.
But credit the Twins with showing a little fight as they scored three runs in the fifth inning, four more in the sixth and tacked on one more in the ninth to make it 10-9 before Royce Lewis struck out to end the game.
“We’ll take it,” said Yankees manager Aaron Boone about the win to the New York Post.
If Simeon Woods Richardson had the best start of his career on Monday, Daniel Zebulon Matthews had his worst on Tuesday.
Zebby was rocked for nine runs on 11 hits, including a home run, across three innings with two walks and two strikeouts on 61 pitches. He falls to 4-6 with an ERA now approaching 6.00 at 5.97.
The Twins will try to avoid another series loss on Wednesday. Taj Bradley gets the ball.
Extra innings…
–The Twins are 66-85.
–The Twins scored nine runs on nine hits, getting dingers from the brothers from another mother — James Outman and Ryan Fitzgerald — and Trevor Larnach, who hit his 17th in the bottom of the ninth inning.
–Oregon State man Larnach scored two runs, drove in two more and walked twice. He also hit a sacrifice fly. Larnach is tied with Byron Buxton for the team lead in hits with 121.
–Speaking of Buck, he and Matt Wallner both doubled in the game.
–Ex-Twin Jose Berrios lasted only four innings on Tuesday, but the Blue Jays still prevailed 6-5 over the Tampa Bay Rays to maintain a five-game lead over the Bronx Bombers.
–The Cleveland Guardians keep winning. They knocked off the Tigers 7-5 in 10 innings on Tuesday and are now 5.5 games back of Motown in the division and 2.5 games back in the wild card race. And the Guards are winning, despite a negative run differential of almost 30. The Guardians are 79-71.
–Baseball-Reference.com doesn’t like it. Entering Tuesday’s play, the Guard’s Pythagorean win-loss record was 71-78, which means they have been very lucky.