“That’s the only way you’re going to learn. It’s going to be special”.
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“I felt pretty good”. Trevor May threw 15 pitches in the tenth, keeping Seattle off the board.
Hisashi Iwakuma didn’t get the win Sunday afternoon, but the Seattle Mariners scratched together enough offense to make sure their pitcher’s performance didn’t go to waste.
“The inexperience showed up tonight,” McClendon said. “You walk the first two guys, it’s hard to get out of those ones”.
Without Sano, the Twins might have been no-hit by Walker, who had allowed 19 runs in his previous four starts. With no more expectations, the implications associated with each individual act (a powerful punch-out or a towering home run) are severely diminished.
“One outstanding play”, Twins manager Paul Molitor said.
“You just have to get the last two hitters out of your mind”, Gibson said. “No sense trying to overanalyze things”.
Minnesota Twins’ Miguel Sano follows through on a solo home run off Seattle Mariners starting pi … A pair of wild pitches proved to be the undoing for Smith (1-5), who has nine saves in 11 tries and replaced Fernando Rodney two months ago in the ninth-inning role. He added one goal while appearing in two playoff games. “(Morrison) got a pitch he could barrel up and he did a good job with it”, McClendon said.
Red Sox 7, Rays 5: Boston held onto Mike Napoli at the trading deadline, and he responded a few hours later with a two-run homer off the top of the Green Monster against Tampa Bay in Boston’s victory.
Eddie Rosario ripped a line drive toward left field that seemed destined to fall in, which would have made him the first Minnesota Twins player to hit for the cycle since 2009.
Blue Jays 7, Royals 6, 11 innings: Josh Donaldson singled home Troy Tulowitzki in the 11th inning and new-look Toronto rallied to beat Kansas City as Johnny Cueto failed to get a decision in his Royals’ debut. The switch-hitter was hitting. Seattle are 2-6 in the last 8 meetings. In eight games at the big league level Polanco is hitting.
Newly acquired reliever Kevin Jepsen made an inauspicious debut for the Twins in the 11th.
McClendon said LHP Vidal Nuno will come out of the bullpen to start Tuesday’s game at Colorado, filling the open rotation spot after Seattle traded J.A. Happ to Pittsburgh on Friday.
Mariners: Cano returned as the DH from a three-game absence due to a strained abdominal muscle. Trevor Plouffe, returning from a three-game absence for the birth of his son, Theodore, scored on a wild pitch in the fourth after a triple.
According to Brooks Baseball, Tai’s average fastball tonight was the fastest that it’s been in any start of his career.
Logan Morrison hadn’t taken batting practice in the cage for four days because of a sore thumb and had only recently started swinging again since leaving a game on Wednesday.
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It was off Minnesota nearer Glen Perkins, who has allowed runs in 4 of his six outings because the All-Star break after giving up simply 5 runs in 38 video games earlier than it. With a 3-1 rely and two wild pitches already in the inning, Suzuki was capable of slender his focus. Tai was ahead of batters all night, consistently peppering the strike zone, but the Twins struggled to do much of anything with his offerings.
