Miguel Sano’s hustle led Minnesota to a pair of early runs and his RBI double tied the game in the decisive seventh inning, helping the Twins dodge a series sweep by beating the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Wednesday night.
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ASTROS 6, INDIANS 2 Rookie Alex Bregman continued his hot hitting with a two-run homer in the third inning and the Houston Astros ended the Cleveland Indians’ six-game winning streak with a victory.
It’s tough to say what we’ll see from the Minnesota Twins but I would be looking at players for next year.
Mets 5, Reds 3: Yoenis Cespedes hit the go-ahead home run in the seventh as NY stays one game out of the NL wild card game.
The Royals went 2-4 in their last six games with NY and Detroit, with each of the losses a close one. “We still feel that we’re not out of this thing by any stretch of the imagination”.
The Twins have 24 games remaining in the season and Dozier has hit at least one home run in the last four games and 21 since July 31. He now has 10 home runs against Kansas City this season, two more than any other Royals opponent in franchise history.
“I saw that play a few times where the runner stopped at third and he could’ve had a chance at scoring, so I know I’ve got to be ready every play and make sure I go full effort”, Buxton said.
Kennedy struggled with command, allowing four earned runs in 5 1-3 innings but is 4-0 in his past five starts.
Kendrys Morales hit a moon-shot three run homer in the fifth that brought KC back from a two-run deficit. KC starter Dillon Gee allowed all three runs on three solo homers over six frames.
Royals: Recalled INF Christian Colon and selected the contracts of OF Daniel Nava and RHP Kevin McCarthy from Triple-A Omaha. He’s connected 36 times as a second baseman and twice as a designated hitter. The AL record for homers in a season by a second baseman is 39 by Alfonso Soriano in 2002 for the Yankees while the Major League mark is 42 by Davey Johnson (Braves, 1973) and Rogers Hornsby (Cardinals, 1922).
Objectively good baseball player he may be, no one would scold you for admitting that you’ve gone entire seasons without thinking about Brian Dozier even once.
Royals: OF Lorenzo Cain missed his sixth straight game because of left wrist inflammation. Now he’s hitting.279 with 38 home runs and 91 RBIs. He struck out five times Sunday.
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“Similar script”, Twins manager Paul Molitor said. “We were trying to keep (reliever) Wade (Davis) out of the game”. RHP Yordano Ventura (10-9, 4.22 ERA) will pitch, opposite LHP Carlos Rodon (6-8, 3.90 ERA) of the White Sox. But Dozier dived to his right, flipped the ball out of his glove to shortstop Jorge Polanco at second for one, and Polanco threw to first for the 4-6-3 double play to get out of the inning.
