Minnesota 5, Tampa Bay 3
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, May 31, 2019
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Ron Kulpa, 1B -
Gabe Morales, 2B -
Marty Foster, 3B -
Jerry Meals
Attendance:
14375
By Field Level Media
Eddie Rosario hit a two-run bases-loaded single in the ninth inning to break a 3-3 tie and give the Minnesota Twins a 5-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The Twins had filled the bases without a hit off reliever Diego Castillo (1-4), who hit both Jonathan Schoop and Willians Astudillo while also intentionally walking Jorge Polanco. Adam Kolarek replaced Castillo and Rosario then grounded a ball down the third base line to drive in both Schoop and Polanco.
Polanco scored three runs and had two doubles and a RBI and Astudillo had a pair of RBI singles for Minnesota, which improved to 15-3 following a loss. Schoop finished 2-for-2 with two runs scored and Marwin Gonzalez also had two hits for the Twins.
Taylor Rogers (2-1) picked up the win with 2 1/3 innings of one-hit relief.
Kevin Kiermaier hit a two-run homer and Austin Meadows stole home for Tampa Bay, which had a season-best six-game winning streak snapped. Willy Adames added two hits.
Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Polanco, who sat out Thursday night's 14-3 loss to the Rays with a virus, slammed a double off the wall in right-center and then scored on a single by Astudillo. The Twins nearly made it 3-0 when C.J. Cron came within a foot of a home run with a drive off the top of the right field fence. Cron ended up with a double and Astudillo, who paused briefly after turning third, was then cut down at the plate by Kiermaier.
Tampa Bay took a 2-1 lead in the second on Kiermaier's sixth home run of the season, a 414-foot drive over the center field fence, driving in Christian Arroyo after a one-out walk.
The Rays made it 3-1 in the third when Meadows, who led off with a walk and went to third one out later on a single by Adames, stole home on a delayed double steal. It was the 12th steal of home in Rays' history.
Minnesota tied it 3-3 in the fifth when Schoop walked, advanced to second on a groundout by Max Kepler and then scored on a double into the gap in left-center by Polanco. Astudillo then followed with a single to drive in Polanco.
The Twins nearly took a 5-3 lead in the eighth when Miguel Sano hit a towering drive down the left field line that likely would have been a two-run homer, except it caromed off a speaker and back to Adames in shallow left field for an out.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Minnesota |
|
Tampa Bay |
Jose Berrios
|
Player |
Ryne Stanek
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
6.2 |
IP |
2.0 |
8 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
3 |
Hits |
4 |
4.05 |
ERA |
4.50 |
Hitting
Minnesota |
|
Tampa Bay |
Jonathan Schoop | Player |
Willy Adames
|
2 |
Hits |
2 |
0 |
RBI |
0 |
0 |
HR |
0 |
2 |
TB |
2 |
1.000 |
Avg |
.500 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Minnesota
|
10 |
0 |
13 |
.286 |
14 |
7 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
Tampa Bay
|
4 |
1 |
7 |
.129 |
9 |
9 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |