Bailey Ober struck out seven batters in a complete-game shutout to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 3-0 win over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
Byron Buxton stole home and Ryan Jeffers clubbed a two-run home run to lead Minnesota at the plate. The Twins have won three games in a row after losing 16 of their previous 21.<\/p>\n
Kyle Stowers and Jakob Marsee had one single apiece for Miami\u2019s only hits. The Marlins were shut out for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n
Ober (4-2) recorded his first complete-game shutout in his 124th big-league start. The big right-hander allowed two hits and walked none, and he threw 64 of 89 pitches for strikes.<\/p>\n
Marlins right-hander Eury Perez (2-5) allowed three runs on three hits in six innings. He walked three and struck out eight.<\/p>\n
The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the fifth, when the Twins finally broke through with a two-out rally that led to three runs.<\/p>\n
Buxton started the action when he drew a two-out walk. Trevor Larnach followed with a single that put runners on first and third as Jeffers stepped to the plate.<\/p>\n
Moments later, Larnach took off from first base on an attempted steal, and Marlins catcher Joe Mack fired a throw to second base to try to throw him out. Larnach got stuck in a rundown between first and second, and Buxton saw an opening to sprint toward home plate.<\/p>\n
Marlins second baseman Xavier Edwards pivoted and fired a throw to the plate, but Buxton beat the tag to make it 1-0. He was credited with stealing home.<\/p>\n
Larnach also notched a steal as he headed toward second base once Edwards threw toward the plate. Jeffers drove him in with a towering, two-run homer to left to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n
The Twins had a chance to add more runs in the seventh. They loaded the bases with two outs, but Marlins reliever Josh Ekness got Josh Bell to ground out to end the inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bailey Ober struck out seven batters in a complete-game shutout to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 3-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[760,5,2223,25004,22740,1388,58,822,60,3190,4,1252,3477,148],"class_list":["post-697774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-bailey-ober","tag-baseball","tag-byron-buxton","tag-complete-game-shutout","tag-jakob-marsee","tag-kyle-stowers","tag-miami-marlins","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-ryan-jeffers","tag-trevor-larnach","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116566807240441685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697774","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=697774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}