Twins set record for home runs on the road
Even with three power-hitting regulars out of the lineup, the Minnesota Twins found a way to keep on slugging.
Jake Cave homered twice, C.J. Cron went deep and the surging Twins set a major league record for home runs on the road in a 10-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday.
Cave led off the third with a drive off Dylan Cease to give Minnesota 139 homers away from home, eclipsing the mark of 138 set by the Giants in 2001. Cron, the next hitter, followed with a homer to center.
Cave added a shot in the seventh, increasing the Twins’ overall total to 261. The record for homers in a season, 267, was set last year by the Yankees.
Cave was in center field in place of Max Kepler, who leads the Twins with 35 homers.
Kepler didn’t start for a third straight game as he rests a sore right knee. Miguel Sanó, who has 26 homers, wasn’t in the lineup because of right forearm tightness and a gastrointestinal issue. Marwin González, who has gone deep 15 times, missed his second game with an abdominal/oblique strain. REDS’ AQUINO SETS NL ROOKIE
MARK » The Reds’ Aristides Aquino broke the NL rookie record for home runs in a month with his 14th in August.
Aquino hit a two-run homer in the first inning against the Marlins’ Robert Dugger. Aquino broke the rookie mark of 13 in a month set by the Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger in June 2017.
The major league rookie record is 18 by the Tigers’ Rudy York in August 1937. Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs holds the record for homers in a month by any major leaguer with 20 in June 1998. STILL FIGHTING » The Rays got themselves off the ropes by rallying late to beat Houston 9-8, ending a four-game skid. Now the AL wild-card hopefuls open a pivotal three-game home series against wild-card leader Cleveland.