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Minnesota: Twins vs. Kansas City Royals 9.21.19
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Former Maryland outfielder LaMonte Wade Jr hits first MLB home run
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![Dreadful ninth inning for bullpen does in Twins in 12-5 loss to Royals<br />
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Kansas City scored seven runs off Taylor Rogers and two other relievers, but the Twins' magic number fell to four anyway. <br />
By Phil Miller Star Tribune SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 — 7:24AM<br />
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Kansas City Royals third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert (19) celebrated his 2-run home run in the top of the ninth inning, bringing home shortstop Erick Mej<br />
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Gallery: Kansas City Royals third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert (19) celebrated his 2-run home run in the top of the ninth inning, bringing home shortstop Erick Mejia (26) and taking a 2-run lead over the Twins.<br />
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Have no fear, Jose Berrios. Once the playoffs arrive, you can focus on the Astros or Yankees. The Kansas City Royals can’t pester you anymore.<br />
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Berrios, whose two bounceback starts after a monthlong slump allayed some Twin Cities fears about the righthander’s readiness for a postseason series, was fine again for five innings Saturday, then fell victim to an odd pattern. He’s faced the Royals three times this year, been handed a lead in all three — and failed to hold it each time.<br />
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The Royals rallied from three back against the Twins’ two-time All-Star, and pinch hitter Cheslor Cuthbert drilled a two-run tiebreaker in the ninth inning off Taylor Rogers, triggering a big inning and a more-annoying-than-damaging 12-5 loss for the Twins at Target Field.<br />
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“Personally, I didn’t see that coming,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. He was referring to Berrios’ sudden setback but could have been describing Rogers’ outing as well, with Cuthbert’s home run triggering a stadium-emptying seven-run ninth inning.<br />
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VideoVideo (01:32): Twins righthander Jose Berrios says he was growing frustrated over the Royals getting soft hits to fall on Saturday.<br />
Cuthbert’s home run was offset, as far as the Twins were concerned, by Bryce Harper’s. The Phillies star clubbed a three-run homer at Progressive Field, helping Philadelphia end the Indians’ five-game winning streak with a 9-4 victory. That enabled the Twins to maintain their four-game AL Central lead with seven games remaining, melt their magic number down to four and shrug off a loss that was a lot closer than the final score.<br />
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“Sometimes things just don’t play out the way you want them to, and there’s not a lot to single out” for blame, Baldelli said. “The way the entire game played out, there’s not a lot to point to. We went out there and executed fine and the results just didn’t go our way.”<br />
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Berrios knows the feeling, right? In his two previous starts against the Royals, in April and June, he appeared headed to victory — and then stumbled at the finish, leaving the game with Kansas City tied or in front.<br />
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“Honestly,” Berrios said, “I wasn’t aware of that.”<br />
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Oh. Actually, Berrios hasn’t earned a victory in his past five starts against the Royals, dating to last August, despite a 3.66 ERA in those games.<br />
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Ahead 5-2 after five, Berrios responded by giving up five hits in the sixth inning, capped by Ryan O’Hearn’s upper-deck blast to right field that tied the game 5-5. It was the Kansas City first baseman’s second run-scoring extra-base hit of the night; O’Hearn also doubled home a run in the second inning.<br />
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“I feel like they hit the ball around not very hard,” Berrios said, until O’Hearn connected. “I got frustrated because I was like, ‘They’re not hitting the ball hard,’ and it was just dropping.”<br />
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LaMonte Wade Jr. hit the ball hard. The rookie, who seems to be locked in a late-season battle for a spot on the Twins playoff roster, rocketed a first-pitch fastball from K.C. starter Glenn Sparkman 416 feet into the upper deck in right-center. Two innings later, he drove a pitch to deep center that Brett Phillips failed to catch, and Wade hustled to third base with his first big-league triple. That led to a four-run inning that included an RBI double by Luis Arraez and run-scoring singles by Nelson Cruz and Miguel Sano.<br />
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In the ninth, Rogers was ambushed by a Royals offense that has scored the second-fewest runs in the AL. O’Hearn led off with a ground-ball single, and after a sacrifice bunt, Cuthbert hit for Phillips. On a 2-1 count, he reached out for a low slider and yanked it down the line, two rows into the left-field seats just inside the foul pole.<br />
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“That’s baseball,” Rogers said, echoing the get-’em-tomorrow theme of the night. “If we’re in a different shift, then the ground ball is an out. Maybe [Cuthbert’s blast] drifts foul, and it’s a different story.”<br />
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The Royals piled on from there against Rogers, Trevor Hildenberger and, making his major league debut, rookie Jorge Alcala, putting together a seven-run inning, Kansas City’s largest of the season.<br />
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Phil Miller has covered the Twins for the Star Tribune since 2013. Previously, he covered the University of Minnesota football team, and from 2007-09, he covered the Twins for the Pioneer Press.<br />
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