{"id":672944,"date":"2026-04-11T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672944\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:00:30","slug":"minnesota-twins-handled-10-4-in-road-loss-to-toronto-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672944\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins handled 10-4 in road loss to Toronto Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twins fell 10-4 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night, snapping Minnesota&#8217;s four-game win streak<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays&#8217; Brandon Valenzuela hit his first MLB home run and Daulton Varsho also connected in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had three hits and an RBI to help Toronto win its second straight after losing the previous six.<\/p>\n<p>Davis Schneider had two hits, scored twice and drove in a run as the Blue Jays set a season high in runs and matched a season high in hits. Nine of Toronto&#8217;s 14 hits were for extra bases, including seven doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Valenzuela gave Toronto its first lead, 5-4, with a two-out drive off Simeon Woods Richardson in a five-run fourth inning. His homer followed RBI doubles by Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez and Schneider, and an RBI single by Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez.<\/p>\n<p>Varsho made it 6-4 with a leadoff homer off Anthony Banda in the fifth, his first of the season and the 100th of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins came in having swept a four-game series against Detroit. Minnesota is 2-5 on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Mantiply (1-0) struck out all three batters he faced to earn the win.<\/p>\n<p>Making his debut with the Blue Jays after signing as a free agent earlier this month, Patrick Corbin allowed four runs and six hits, including two home runs, in four innings.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Jeffers hit a three-run homer off Corbin in the first, his first. Brooks Lee made it 4-0 with a leadoff homer in the third, his first.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins have at least one home run in 24 consecutive games in Toronto, hitting 51 total homers in those games.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffers went 3 for 3 and was hit by a pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Woods Richardson (0-2) allowed five runs and six hits in four innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays LHP Eric Lauer (1-1, 4.91 ERA) is expected to start on Saturday afternoon against Twins RHP Joe Ryan (1-1, 4.40).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins fell 10-4 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night, snapping Minnesota&#8217;s four-game win streak The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,1465,19,822,60,3190,4,185,282,70,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-672944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-twins","13":"tag-minnesotatwins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-toronto","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","18":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116383844091040003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672944","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=672944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}