Game 15, 4-11-20

(I missed posting yesterday, so two short posts today.). Twins coming off a win vs Chicago wants to expand on that. Odorizzi (2-0) vs. Gio Gonzalez (1-0). Both game highlights below.

• The Twins started out hot. Buxton hit a single to start out the game. Kepler doubled scoring Buxton from 1st. Sano singled, scoring Kepler. Cruz doubled, but Sano only could make it to third where he got stranded. Twins leading 2-0. In the bottom of the 4th, Luis Robert hit a single to Jake Cave with 2 men on base. Cave threw a bullet home nailing Yoan Moncada to end the inning. Everything was pretty tame for the rest of the game. Odorizzi pitched 8 wonderful innings getting the win, 4 hits, 2 walks, 0 runs, 13 Ks, game score 89. Rogers came in for the last inning and got his 4th save of the season.
  

Twins win 2-0

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Other League News

• Jon Gray pitched a 4 hit shut out for Colorado (10-4) 90 game score. Trevor Story went 3-5 in the same game bringing his batting avg. to .429.
  

Game 16, 4-12-20

Twins going for the sweep today vs. the White Sox. Maeda (1-1) vs. Keuchel (1-1).

• The Twins just like last game are making a splash to start off the game again. Buxton doubled to lead off the game. Then Sano knocked in Buxton. Twins lead 1-0. Maeda got in trouble in the bottom of the 2nd. Encarnacion hit a single, Abreu got on base after Adrianza threw the ball wildly to first. Grandal hit a single scoring a run. Robert then hit into a double play scoring Abreu. Chicago leads 2-1. Bottom of the third, Yoan Moncada hit a bomb to CF, but Buxton and his amazing defense robbed him of an extra base hit. Also Tim Anderson got walked, and Garver had enough and got ejected from the game. In the top of the 4th, Cruz finally hit his first HR of the season tying this game up. Tied 2-2. More Twins highlights in the top of the 6th. Sano and Cruz started out with singles. Donaldson hit the third single in a row giving the Twins their first lead in 4 innings. Twins lead 3-2. Top of the 7th, Polanco walked and Buxton doubled. With no outs Keuchel who pitched a good game thus far, was pulled from the game. Evan Marshall came in for relief. Kepler hit one deep, but was caught but sacrificed in Polanco. Then Sano hit a double scoring buxton. Marshall finally settled down and got out of the inning. Twins lead 5-2. In the top of the 8th the Twins tried to all but end the game. Cave hit his first hr of the season scoring Avila who walked. Buxton eventually got a sacrifice fly on a foul ball scoring Adrianza who doubled earlier. Twins lead 8-2. In the bottom of the 9th, with Sergio Romo pitching the White Sox wanted to give it one last go. Moncada hit a hard one back to Romo to start the inning and Romo booted it for an error. Encarnacion and Abreu loaded the bases for Yasmani Grandal. A grand slam would make this a game. Grandal ended up hitting a 2 rbi single. Romo then struck out the final three batters
  

Twins Win 8-4

Maeda got the win 3 hits, 0 unearned runs, 1 bb, 8 ks, in 7.2 innings. Game score 80. Twins get the much needed sweep before heading to Toronto.

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Twins 10-6 _ 2nd place, 3.5 games behind Cleveland

Other League News

Trea Turner of Washington out for 2 weeks. He is having a mediocre season so far. Oakland (9-7) had some 9th inning magic vs the Yankees (7-9) when Pinder who is having a horrible season hit a walk off double. Luis Castillo pitched a gem for Cincinnati game score of 93, putting him 3-0 on the season with 1.69 era. Ozuna hit a 12th inning home run (his 2nd of the season) to put Arizona (9-8) on top of Miami (5-12). The Tigers got their 4th win of the season, with help from the weather when the game was stopped after the top of the 6th due to rain.

Twins Stats & More

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