Minnesota Twins at Kansas City Royals

Final

MINMinnesota Twins77-85 · Away KCRKansas City Royals69-93 · Home

5–1

Thursday, Apr 2

Kauffman Stadium72°, Partly Cloudy11,694

Recap

Player of the gameCole RagansKCR6.0ip 4h 0er 8k

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Taj Bradley pitched six innings of five-hit ball, Minnesota homered three times in the ninth inning to break open a close game, and the Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 5-1 on Thursday to avoid a three-game series sweep. Bradley (1-0) struck out three and walked one while out-dueling Cole Ragans (0-2), helping the Twins improve to 2-0 with him on the mound. Minnesota was winless in its other four games on a season-opening six-game trip through Baltimore and Kansas City. Kody Clemens scored on an error by five-time Gold Glove-winning catcher Salvador Perez in the second, and Byron Buxton added a sacrifice fly off John Schreiber in the eighth, before the Twins teed off against Royals reliever Steven Cruz in the ninth.

How the bets landed

Moneyline favoriteKCR -154 · 58% to win

Upset

Run LineKCR -1.5

MIN covered

TotalO/U 9.5 · 6 scored

Under

Against the consensus line at the start, across 16 books

Team stats

MINMIN KCRKCR

8Hits7

3Home runs0

3Walks2

12Strikeouts6

2Stolen bases1

143Pitches thrown162

6Pitching strikeouts12

Box score

Batting

Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO
James OutmanPR-LF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trevor LarnachPH	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Josh BellDH	3	2	1	1	1	1	1
Byron BuxtonCF	3	0	0	1	0	0	1
Royce Lewis3B	4	0	1	0	0	0	3
Victor CaratiniC	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
Matt WallnerRF	4	1	1	1	1	0	1
Austin MartinLF	3	0	0	0	0	0	2
Kody Clemens1B	3	2	2	1	1	1	0
Luke Keaschall2B	4	0	2	0	0	0	1
Tristan GraySS	4	0	0	0	0	0	3
Totals	31	5	8	4	3	3	12

Pitching

Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Cole SandsP	0.2	2	1	1	0	0
Taj BradleyP	6.0	5	0	0	1	3
Kody FunderburkP	1.0	0	0	0	0	1
Taylor RogersP	0.1	0	0	0	0	1
Justin TopaP	1.0	0	0	0	1	1