“It was a pretty impressive home run”.
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“That was huge from Hilly there in the bottom of the sixth”, Nelson said.
Mauer’s RBI double in the sixth pushed him past Harmon Killebrew for fifth in Twins history with 1,712 hits.
“That is huge. That is definitely our offense’s game there”, Wednesday’s winning pitcher Jimmy Nelson said. Gennett again hit a ball Sano’s way and the right fielder would hardly have had to move to catch the liner.
Brian Dozier chased Nelson with a double down the first-base line.
Counsell turned to lefty Carlos Torres, who loaded the bases by walking Joe Mauer and Sano on eight straight pitches but escaped any damage when he struck out Arcia on three pitches. “We kept the foot to gas there at the end and that is huge”.
The Brewers must have been well rested after their rain shortened game last night because they slapped together several a few hits right away in the first inning.
“We’re just looking for consistency with what he’s doing”, Molitor said.
Santana led off the eighth with his second home run of the season.
Mounting strikeouts and an inability to hit with runners in scoring position marked the Twins’ first week. Ryan Pressly took the loss. Lucroy doubled to left, Gennett scored, Braun to third. The bats got going in the eighth on home runs from Byung Ho Park and Eddie Rosario that tied the game at 5. It took him just 7 pitches to retire the side. Colin Walsh was right there to tag the base and throw across the time to nail Sano for the double play.
“It was a little disappointing”, said Jungmann, who fell to 0-3 with an 8.47 earned run average through four starts.
Although he was not as sharp as in his impressive season debut, Nolasco managed to go seven innings while giving four runs – all in the second frame – and nine hits in a no-decision against the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday. April 8 against Houston was the first.
The Minnesota Twins went on to lose after the bullpen surrendered another six runs.
He has five RBIs and has scored five runs so far. Both teams are coming off 4 game splits.
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Brewers fifth. Walsh fouled out to third baseman Nunez. Milwaukee C Jonathan Lucroy got his third day off of the season off from behind the plate as he was the designated hitter on Tuesday. “But you know, they kept kind of adding on”. “You just hope nobody does anything too insane, either get carried away with their swings or if they do get a chance to run the bases”. Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said injured pitchers Matt Garza (shoulder), Will Smith (Knee) and Corey Knebel (oblique) have been making progress in their rehabs but are all a long way from getting back on a mound. Twins 3B Trevor Plouffe was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a right intercostal strain.
