Bailey Ober was solid and the offense stayed on the attack throughout the night.
Bailey Ober got the start tonight for the Twins and had a good night. There were a couple blemishes, though, solo homers from Pete Alonso and Juan Soto were the Mets only runs until the 7th inning.
Meanwhile, the Twins offense took a blow as Matt Wallner had to leave the game with a hamstring injury in the 1st inning, he is day-to-day.
The Twins pushed their first run across in the 3rd, thanks to a Francisco Lindor error on a Ty France grounder, allowing Harrison Bader to score. Carlos Correa followed that with a single to score another run, but France was thrown out trying for 3rd base to end the inning.
In the 4th, Ryan Jeffers appeared to have a 2-run homer to left but it was ruled a double as it hit just off the top of the wall. Instead, Bader got an RBI infield single to make it a 3-2 game, and Edouard Julien hit into an inning ending double play.
In the 5th, the Twins pushed another run home on a France grounder after Buxton had gotten to 3rd with 1 out. Also in this inning, another injury, this one to Carlos Correa as he left with a wrist injury, with Brooks Lee taking his spot.
In the 6th, Jeffers led off with a double, then scored on Julien’s clutch 2 out single to make it a 5-2 game.
Ober was still going strong into the 7th inning, but a 1-out single and a double put two in scoring position. Cole Sands was brought in to put out the fire, and allowed a sac fly RBI, and a weak grounder to 2nd from Lindor ended the threat.
Brooks Lee smacked a homer, his first of the year, to deep right field to push the Twins up 6-3 in the 7th.
In the top of the 9th, Jhoan Duran came out for the save and, despite an error allowing the first batter to reach, he struck out Lindor to end the game.
Studs (Lots of em tonight):
Bailey Ober: 6.1 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
Cole Sands: Big outs to get us out of a jam in the top of the 7th.
Byron Buxton: 2-4, 2 R, SB
Carlos Correa: 1-2, RBI
Brooks Lee: 1-2, HR
Ryan Jeffers: 3-3, 2 2B
Harrison Bader: 3-4, RBI, SB
Duds:
NO DUDS TWINS WIN!