A night after hitting three homers to celebrate Labor Day versus the Kansas City Royals, the Minnesota Twins slugger continued his improbable second half surge by hitting his 39 home run on the year, which moves him into second place on Major League leaderboards for long balls this year, behind only Mark Trumbo’s 41.
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YANKEES 5, BLUE JAYS 3: Jacoby Ellsbury overcame a first-inning deficit against R.A. Dickey with a two-run homer on the knuckleballer’s third pitch of the game, then added an RBI single to lead the New York Yankees over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Monday.
Morales had three hits, including his sixth home run in the last eight games, Drew Butera also went deep for the Royals and Danny Duffy struck out 10 batters without a walk over six innings.
Brian Dozier didn’t hit a home run for Minnesota, ending his club-tying record at five straight games, but he singled and stole second before scoring on Sano’s double off Joakim Soria (4-8).
Dodgers 5, Diamondbacks 2: Los Angeles jumped all over Arizona starter Shelby Miller, who lasted 4 1/3 innings giving up five runs – four earned – on 11 hits the night after Zack Greinke allowed five homers to his former team. “I felt like I had that kind of stuff tonight”.
“We talk about it all the time, but a defensive play to save a run is just as good as hitting a home run”, Dozier said.
The Kansas City Royals and the Minnesota Twins conclude their series ay Target Field on Wednesday. Now he’s hitting.279 with 38 home runs and 91 RBIs.
Yankees 7, Blue Jays 6: A wild game in the Bronx saw 10 runs come across in the last three innings and NY held on for the win despite Dellin Betances being pulled in the ninth. The Twins logged eight hits and walked once with Trevor Plouffe, Brian Dozier and Eddie Rosario each leaving the yard.
“His speed paid off, for sure”, manager Paul Molitor said about Buxton.
We talked a lot about Dozier on the latest episode of the Touch ‘Em All podcast, which was recorded Tuesday afternoon.
Santana’s pitch ran in on Perez’s hands and appeared to hit him just below the right wrist. Perez could be back in the lineup by Friday.
The 22-year-old right-hander has spent the majority of the 2016 regular season as the Twins’ No. 1 overall prospect as well as one of the top prospects in the game today. McCarthy had a 5-6 record and 3.57 ERA in 47 relief appearances between Double-A and Triple-A this season. Dillon Gee takes the mound for Kansas City; Ervin Santana gets the start for Minnesota.
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TWINS: Following an off day at home, Minnesota hosts division-leading Cleveland for three games.
