Minnesota 4, Seattle 3
When: 7:40 PM ET, Monday, July 24, 2023
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature:
83°
Umpires:
Home -
Rob Drake, 1B -
Bill Miller, 2B -
Chad Whitson, 3B -
Roberto Ortiz
Attendance:
22969
By Field Level Media
Carlos Correa singled in Donovan Solano from third in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Monday in the opener of a three-game series in Minneapolis.
It was the second consecutive walk-off win for the Twins. Minnesota rallied from a 3-0, ninth-inning deficit to defeat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in 12 innings on Sunday.
Correa looped an 0-2 fastball from Mariners reliever Paul Sewald (3-1) into right to drive in Solano, who began the inning as the automatic runner and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Christian Vazquez.
Max Kepler went 3-for-4, including a game-tying RBI double in the bottom of the ninth, while Trevor Larnach had an RBI triple for Minnesota. Jorge Lopez (4-2) picked up the win with a hitless 10th inning.
Kolten Wong hit a two-run, pinch-hit home run in the top of the ninth to give the Mariners a 3-2 lead. Tom Murphy homered and doubled, and J.P. Crawford also had two hits for Seattle, which lost its second straight one-run game.
Seattle took a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning when Murphy led off with his seventh home run of the season.
Minnesota answered with two runs in the bottom of the fifth to take a 2-1 lead. Kepler led off with a single -- the Twins' first hit of the game off Seattle starter Luis Castillo -- and scored two outs later on Larnach's triple. Vazquez then sliced a single down the right field line to drive in Larnach.
The Mariners took back the lead in the ninth thanks to Wong's two-run blast, which came off Twins reliever Griffin Jax.
But Minnesota rallied to force extra innings in the bottom half of the frame against reliever Andres Munoz, getting back-to-back doubles by Alex Kirilloff and Kepler to draw even at 3-3.
Twins starter Kenta Maeda allowed one run on six hits over 6 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out eight. Castillo gave up two runs on four hits in seven innings, striking out nine and walking two.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Seattle |
|
Minnesota |
Luis Castillo
|
Player |
Kenta Maeda
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
7.0 |
IP |
6.1 |
9 |
Strikeouts |
8 |
4 |
Hits |
6 |
2.57 |
ERA |
1.42 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Seattle
|
9 |
2 |
17 |
.237 |
18 |
10 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
Minnesota
|
8 |
0 |
12 |
.242 |
8 |
12 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |