{"id":667684,"date":"2026-04-07T04:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:48:41","slug":"twins-beat-tigers-behind-strong-bullpen-offensive-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667684\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins beat Tigers behind strong bullpen, offensive effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

As he came out of the bullpen, inheriting a situation with a pair of runners on base and a two-run lead, Cody Laweryson admits he had a \u201clittle bit of extra juices flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thrust into a high-leverage situation, Laweryson, who had just 11 innings of major league experience before Monday night, was up to the task. Laweryson only needed six pitches to escape, striking out Matt Vierling and getting Jahmai Jones to pop up to protect the Twins\u2019 lead.<\/p>\n

\"MinnesotaMinnesota Twins’ Luke Keaschall celebrates after scoring on a single hit by Royce Lewis during the third inning of baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo\/Matt Krohn)<\/p>\n

After the Twins tacked on another pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth, Laweryson came back out for a 1-2-3 ninth inning, picking up his first career save in the Twins\u2019 7-3 win over the Detroit Tigers on Monday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, like we\u2019ve talked about, there\u2019s going to be different opportunities depending on who\u2019s up and who\u2019s down,\u201d manager Derek Shelton said. \u201cCody did a really nice job.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so did many of his teammates on a night where the Twins needed a little bit of something from everyone to beat Detroit (4-6). Laweryson\u2019s effort was part of four scoreless innings from the bullpen, which was plunged into action after five innings from starter Joe Ryan.<\/p>\n

Ryan threw three perfect innings to begin his night before running into some trouble in the fourth inning, an inning that began with an error by shortstop Brooks Lee. The all-star starter gave up three runs as part of a 39-pitch inning, giving back the lead his teammates had built in the last inning.<\/p>\n

\"MinnesotaMinnesota Twins shortstop Brooks Lee, left, tags out Detroit Tigers’ Spencer Torkelson (20) who was attempting to steal second base during the eighth inning of baseball game Monday, April 6, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo\/Matt Krohn)<\/p>\n

But he was able to stop the damage there and skirted around trouble in the fifth inning, giving up two earned runs and striking out seven in his outing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what a top-end starting pitcher does,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cHe comes back and settles down. And then he had to settle down in the heart of the order, go 2-3-4. I thought it was important. I was impressed with how he rebounded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan earned his first win of the season thanks to a much-improved offensive effort on Monday out of an offense that had collected just three hits in each of its past two games.<\/p>\n

Shelton shook up the lineup before Monday\u2019s game and the Twins (4-6) got some immediate results. Byron Buxton, leading off for the first time this season, snapped a 0 for 20 streak in the third inning, igniting a three-run rally with a double to begin the frame.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuck is going to hit,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cAnd I told Buck this actually at some point before the game. I have a lot of worries in my life. Byron Buxton hitting is not one of them. And he\u2019s going to. It\u2019s just good to see that throughout the lineup. I thought we did a good job tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"VictorVictor Caratini #37 of the Minnesota Twins hits an RBI single against the Detroit Tigers during the eighth inning of the game at Target Field on April 6, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Trevor Larnach, moved up to the two hole, collected a pair of hits and scored two runs and Luke Keaschall hit a big home run in the fourth inning to break a 3-3 tie.<\/p>\n

Victor Caratini, whose two-run single in the first inning gave the Twins some breathing room, hit a sacrifice fly earlier in the game and both Matt Wallner and Royce Lewis had RBI knocks for the Twins in the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice when you can put up some runs for the pitchers and let them do their job,\u201d Keaschall said. \u201cCody did great. Joe did great. It was nice to see Buck rip that one down the line and everybody get some hits in there and some walks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he came out of the bullpen, inheriting a situation with a pair of runners on base and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,19,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-667684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-twins","12":"tag-minnesotatwins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116361619570563663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667684","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=667684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}