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St. Louis Cardinals at Minnesota Twins

Final
Target Field79°, Partly Cloudy23,089

Recap

Player of the gameByron BuxtonMIN3/3 1hr 1rbi

The Twins had Friday night’s game against the Cardinals won and lost multiple times. Finally, their corner infielders put it away once and for all. Royce Lewis tied the game with a leadoff homer in the eighth inning, and Brooks Lee followed with a solo homer one out later to give the Twins a wild 9-8 victory over the Cardinals at Target Field. Lewis, who has two home runs in six games since being recalled from Triple-A St. Paul, said he had a good feeling when he returned to the dugout after the top of the seventh despite the Cardinals having just scored four runs to take a 7-4 lead. “When we came in, I looked at every guy in the eyes, and there was no fear, no one was down,” Lewis said. “The energy was up. Just like, ‘Let's go get ‘em.’” Luke Keaschall and Byron Buxton drew walks to bring up Kody Clemens as the tying run with two outs. Clemens launched a three-run shot into the right-field stands that tied the game at 7, setting up Lewis and Lee’s eighth-inning heroics. “That’s a full team victory,” Twins manager Derek Shelton said. “Give a ton of credit to the hitting group, \[hitting coach\

Team stats

12Hits11
1Home runs4
3Walks3
11Strikeouts6
1Stolen bases0
121Pitches thrown173
6Pitching strikeouts11

Box score

BattersABRHRBIHRBBSO
Jordan WalkerRF5013001
Bryan TorresPR0100000
Lars NootbaarLF5110002
Nathan ChurchCF2000001
Blaze Jordan3B4021002
Masyn WinnSS5110000
JJ Wetherholt2B4121012
Jimmy CrooksC3110010
Jose FerminCF1011000
Ivan HerreraDH5120000
Alec Burleson1B4212112
Nelson VelazquezPH1000001
Totals3981281311
PitchersIPHRERBBSOHR
Gordon GraceffoP0.2022200
Kyle LeahyP5.0844151
George SorianoP1.0000000
Ryne StanekP1.1333013