Twins rays score12/14/2023 ![]() ![]() Colin Poche has been around for three years, but had allowed 29 baserunners in 21 innings this season. Robert Stephenson, twice traded and once claimed off waivers, had pitched twice for Tampa Bay. Kevin Kelly is a rookie with a 26-inning MLB career. Cooper Criswell had appeared in seven big league games over three years. Shawn Armstrong, for instance, just off the 60-day injured list, was making his second appearance of the season. No, they rarely do lately, even when confronted by the - let's say, lesser elements of the Rays' pitching staff. When there's people on base like that and we get swings like that, you're going to score. "If anyone else that we have hits it, some of our other position players, they probably beat it out. And then their middle infielder over there stays composed and turns it," Baldelli said. "Jeffers hits it pretty hard down the line, and their third baseman makes a hell of a play. Somehow Walls pivoted so quickly, he was able to throw out Jeffers at first base, and the Twins catcher fell to the ground from the effort to beat it out. ![]() Ryan Jeffers then hit a changeup from Adam 102 mph down the third-base line - but third baseman Isaac Paredes speared it as it went by, then threw from one knee to second baseman Taylor Walls. After Lewis' run-scoring single, the Twins' first hit since the third inning, they loaded the bases with just one out when Willi Castro was hit by a pitch. They hadn't scored at all for 18 straight innings, hadn't even advanced a runner to third base.Īnd even when they broke that up by manufacturing the tying run off Rays closer Jason Adam, they still managed to douse any positive vibes in the way that inning ended. The Twins have scored five runs on 26 hits in that time, and until their ninth-inning surprise rally, had scored only one run in their previous 30 innings. Not much is OK with the Twins' offense, which has posted a popgun performance for five straight games. "I'm a good pitcher, so I do the best pitch I can and he does the best swing he can, and he won tonight. He's a good hitter," Duran said with a shrug after the Twins' fourth straight loss. Arozarena fouled off the first one, but he ambushed the second, handing Duran the first walk-off loss of his career. Only for two pitches, though, both of them 98-mph sinkers. "We're where we want to be - we're back in the game!" 500 team for the first time this season at 31-31. I mean, it happened so fast that we didn't really get a chance to settle in after scoring," said Rocco Baldelli, manager of a. But Jhoan Duran's second pitch was rocketed into the right-field seats by Randy Arozarena, and the Twins watched the game, and their winning record, get taken away in a 2-1 walk-off loss at Tropicana Field. ![]()
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