“I saw the ball really high, the throw really high,” Urshela said, “and I got to score.” Haase probably could have run to the base and tagged out Urshela but said he was concerned that Larnach would run past him and no one would be covering home plate, so he threw the ball to Candelario - who had no chance to catch it. “And then I saw Larnach he was at third.” “I saw Sanó next to me, and I started running,” Urshela said. Grossman did a good job of getting the ball back to the infield, and it appeared that the Twins were about to run themselves out of at least sending the game to extra innings. The right fielder appeared to have it before the ball bounced off his glove and behind him. He certainly hit it hard, so hard that Grossman was surprised by how quickly it got to him. “I just tried to hit the ball - a long way,” Sanó said. That brought to the plate Sano, who at that point was 0 for 3 and hitting. Soto (1-1) started by throwing eight straight balls, including a wild pitch, to Larnach and Urshela, before fanning Kepler on a 99 mph fastball for the first out. Griffin Jax (1-0) pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to set up the heroics, or comedy, in the Twins’ half of the inning. But Báez erased the lead with one swing, a three-run homer on the second pitch he saw from reliever Emilio Pagan to put the Tigers up 4-3 in the eighth inning. The right-fielder hit an RBI double in the second and a two-run homer in the fourth for all the Twins’ scoring to that point. The Twins took a 3-1 lead into the eighth inning on the strength of Chris Paddack’s quality start and Max Kepler’s bat. “It’s not funny on (Haase’s) part, but to me, that’s the game-winner. He threw the ball to Candelario, who lunged to tag Sanó but stopped because the game was over. The ball skittered into an empty left field, and shortstop Javier Báez couldn’t get it in time to stop Larnach and Urshela from scoring. With a chance to tag out the lead runner at third, and possibly catch Sano in a rundown to end the game, Haase - who entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the seventh - badly overthrew third baseman Jeimer Candelario. With the tying run on second, the winning run at first and one out, Miguel Sanó drove a line drive into right field that glanced off the glove of Robbie Grossman, sending lead runner Trevor Larnach around third looking to score the tying run.īut Larnach was held up, and Urshela and Sanó kept going. The win extended Minnesota’s winning streak to five and kept them atop the American League Central standings.
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