Trevor Larnach hit a three-run homer, Joe Ryan pitched seven effective innings and the visiting Minnesota Twins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 7-4 on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Ryan (2-1) allowed two runs, two hits and one walk while striking out five in seven innings.<\/p>\n
Brooks Lee added a solo home run and a single to help the Twins gain a split of the opening two games of the three-game series.<\/p>\n
Daulton Varsho and Jesus Sanchez each hit two-run homers for the Blue Jays. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. contributed two hits and scored a run.<\/p>\n
Toronto took a 2-0 lead after just two batters in the bottom of the first. Ryan walked George Springer in the first and Varsho drilled a home run to right.<\/p>\n
The Twins scored all seven runs in the third against starter Eric Lauer (1-2).<\/p>\n
Lee led off with a homer to left that bounced off the top of the wall and over. It was his second homer in two games.<\/p>\n
Byron Buxton continued the rally with a one-out infield hit to third and he took second on Austin Martin\u2019s line-drive single to left. Luke Keaschall walked to load the bases and Ryan Jeffers also walked, forcing in a run the tying run.<\/p>\n
Josh Bell blooped a two-run single to center that dropped in front of Varsho. One out later, Larnach launched his first homer of the season over the right field wall.<\/p>\n
Lauer allowed seven runs, five hits and five walks with three strikeouts in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Myles Straw hit for Springer in the bottom of the sixth inning and the Blue Jays announced that Springer had suffered a left big toe fracture after fouling a ball off his foot in the third inning.<\/p>\n
After Guerrero singled to lead off the fourth, Ryan retired his final 12 batters in a row.<\/p>\n
Kody Funderburk replaced Ryan in the eighth and worked around a single and a walk.<\/p>\n
Guerrero started the Toronto ninth with a single against Cole Sands and Sanchez followed with a homer to right.<\/p>\n
With Royce Lewis going on the injured list with a sprained knee, Ryan Kreidler started at third base for the Twins. He was 0-for-4 and made a superb defensive play on a grounder by Nathan Lukes to end the seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trevor Larnach hit a three-run homer, Joe Ryan pitched seven effective innings and the visiting Minnesota Twins defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-673625","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\/116388668588343338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673625","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=673625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}