Twins erupt for 7 runs in 12th, beat Tigers; Cabrera’s blast lifts Yankees
The Minnesota Twins scored seven runs in the top of the 12th, including Matt Wallner’s three-run homer, as they defeated the host Detroit Tigers 11-5 in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon.
Austin Martin drew a bases-loaded walk off
Alex Lange (0-1) to give the Twins a 5-4 lead.
After Lange struck out the next two batters, Ryan Jeffers hit a grounder on the 12th pitch of the at-bat that third baseman Zach McKinstry booted, allowing three runs to score.
McKinstry was then brought in to pitch and surrendered a walk and a three-run homer to Wallner.
Jeffers hit a game-tying homer in the eighth and drove in two runs. Martin scored twice and drove in two runs. Jorge Alcala (1-0) pitched two innings and picked up the win.
Twins starter Joe Ryan piled up a career-best 12 strikeouts in six innings. Ryan allowed three runs but only one was earned, and he yielded six hits and one walk.
Kerry Carpenter hit a two-run homer and Colt Keith also drove in two runs for the Tigers.
Starter Kenta Maeda, facing his former team, gave up two runs (one earned) in six innings with five strikeouts and no walks.
The Tigers grabbed a two-run lead in the first inning when Carpenter drilled a 3-2 offering from Ryan over the right-center
field wall.
The Twins got one of those runs back in the third. Willi Castro led off with a double and scored on Martin’s double to left. .
A Maeda error helped Minnesota tie it in the fifth. Martin had a oneout single before Edouard Julien hit a bouncer to Maeda, whose throw to second sailed into center field. Martin went to third and scored on Carlos Santana’s fielder’s choice.
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2: Oswaldo Cabrera clubbed a two-run homer in the sixth inning, and visiting New York stayed hot by beating Cleveland in the opener of Saturday’s split doubleheader. Cabrera, in his third major-league season, had homered 11 times entering this year. However, his third home run of 2024, with a man on in a 1-0 game, was the difference as the Yankees improved to 11-3 — and 7-1 away from home. New York’s Clarke Schmidt
Yankees 3, Guardians
(1-0) allowed three hits and five walks, but struck out seven, and yielded those two runs — one earned — while pitching into the sixth.
Royals 11, Mets 7:
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Salvador Perez homered and finished with four
RBI for visiting Kansas City, which beat New York in the middle game of a three-game interleague series. Bobby Witt Jr. finished 2 for 5 with four runs scored for the Royals, who have won eight of nine. Nick Loftin was 2 for 3 with three RBI while Hunter Renfroe had two hits and two RBI.
Pete Alonso went 3 for 3 with two homers and three RBI for the Mets, who lost for just the third time in their past nine games.
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Nick Lodolo threw five no-hit innings before allowing a ground-ball single to open the sixth in his first start in 11 months as visiting Cincinnati blanked Chicago. Spencer Steer continued his torrid
Reds 5, White Sox 0:
start to the season with a three-run double in a five-run second against White Sox starter and loser Garrett Crochet (1-2). Luke Maile added a two-run single in the big frame for the Reds, who clinched a winning road series against the White Sox for the first time since the 1919 World Series. In the infamous Black Sox scandal series, the Reds captured three of four games in Chicago en route to their first World Series title.
ELSEWHERE Braves:
Atlanta ace
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Spencer Strider will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow with an internal brace. Strider’s surgery was performed Friday by Dr. Keith Meister in Arlington, Texas. Strider, 25, left his start against the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 5 after four innings due to elbow discomfort. Strider, an All-Star who finished fourth in the National League Cy Young Award voting last season, led the majors with 20 wins and 281 strikeouts in 186 innings.
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placed shortstop Carlos Correa on the 10-day injured list with a right oblique strain. Correa, 29, sustained the injury during the Twins’ 8-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Friday. A two-time AllStar, Correa is hitting
.306 with one homer, four RBI and a .432 on-base percentage in 11 games this season.