Richie Palacios clubbed a go-ahead two-run homer in the 10th inning as the Tampa Bay Rays claimed their first series this season Sunday afternoon with a 4-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
On the second pitch from Justin Topa (0-1), Palacios, who went 2-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base, belted his first home run deep to right to score Ben Williamson, who started the 10th on second base.<\/p>\n
Junior Caminero, who hit a solo homer, later drove in a run with a walk. Kevin Kelly earned his second save in relief of Bryan Baker (1-0), who pitched a perfect ninth with two whiffs.<\/p>\n
In his second straight quality start, the Rays\u2019 Nick Martinez yielded just a solo shot \u2014 the only hit against the right-hander \u2014 in six innings. He fanned four with a walk.<\/p>\n
Matt Wallner went deep for the Twins, who managed just three hits in their second straight setback.<\/p>\n
Simeon Woods Richardson allowed five hits and one run on a solo homer in 6 2\/3 innings with four strikeouts and two walks.<\/p>\n
Wallner opened the game\u2019s scoring in the second inning by jumping on a 1-0 cutter from Martinez and lobbing a 409-foot shot down the right field line for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Fooled on a previous splitter from Woods Richardson, Caminero golfed the next offering, also a splitter but well below the strike zone, out to left for his first homer and first RBI of the season to even the game in the fourth.<\/p>\n
The visitors threatened in the fifth after Palacios, who walked, advanced to third on a two-out single by Hunter Feduccia.<\/p>\n
Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers, who wanted an 0-2 pitch up and out of the zone against Yandy Diaz, got a low fastball from his pitcher that was called a ball. The catcher used an ABS challenge to overturn it and end the inning.<\/p>\n
In the seventh, singles by Ben Williamson and Palacios, who stole second, forced Woods Richardson to bear down. He struck out Jonny Deluca before reliever Kody Funderburk got a weak groundout from Nick Fortes to keep it tied 1-all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richie Palacios clubbed a go-ahead two-run homer in the 10th inning as the Tampa Bay Rays claimed their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-665367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-minnesotatwins","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116354521812259033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}