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  • MN Twins vs Royals (Sept21st19 Wade Jr's HR<br /> <a href="https://youtu.be/mz9sil45F-U">https://youtu.be/mz9sil45F-U</a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/playerstats.asp?id=11174">https://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/playerstats.asp?id=11174</a><br /> <br /> Former Maryland outfielder LaMonte Wade Jr hits first MLB home run<br /> <a href="https://dbknews.com/2019/09/16/lamonte-wade-first-career-home-run-maryland-baseball-minnesota-twins/">https://dbknews.com/2019/09/16/lamonte-wade-first-career-home-run-maryland-baseball-minnesota-twins/</a>
  • Wade's Solo Shot to Center<br /> <a href="https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-vs-twins/2019/09/21/567041#game_state=final">https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-vs-twins/2019/09/21/567041#game_state=final</a>,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=567041<br /> <br /> Twins Game Recap (9/21): Twins Blow Lead, Implode in Ninth<br /> <a href="http://twinsdaily.com/_/minnesota-twins-news/minnesota-twins/twins-game-recap-921-twins-blow-lead-implode-in-ninth-r8444">http://twinsdaily.com/_/minnesota-twins-news/minnesota-twins/twins-game-recap-921-twins-blow-lead-implode-in-ninth-r8444</a><br /> "..Rookies Spark the Offense, Man<br /> <br /> With Dick Bremer lamenting about how many first pitch fastballs Twins hitters were taking, LaMonte Wade Jr. came up in the bottom of the third and turned on the first pitch Glenn Sparkman had to offer. 416 feet later Kansas City’s lead was cut to one. The home run was the second of Wade Jr.’s young Twins MLB career...<br /> <br /> Broadcaster<br /> <br /> Latroy Hawkins claimed that he joked with Wade Jr. before the game that he hit like Reggie Jackson in batting practice, but like Michael Jackson in games. It appears that Wade Jr. took Hawkins' words to heart.<br /> <br /> In his next at-bat, Wade Jr. led off the bottom of the fifth with a triple. Luis Arraez followed Wade Jr.’s triple with his second hit of the game, a hustle double that scored Wade Jr. to tie the game. With the rookies doing their job, the anti-rookie, Nelson Cruz stepped up and singled in Arraez for his team-leading 104th RBI..."
  • Royals erupt in ninth to sink Twins<br /> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/baseball-mlb-min-kc/royals-erupt-in-ninth-to-sink-twins-idUSMTZXEF9M7PUDTX">https://www.reuters.com/article/baseball-mlb-min-kc/royals-erupt-in-ninth-to-sink-twins-idUSMTZXEF9M7PUDTX</a><br /> Sep 21, 2019; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Glenn Sparkman (57) delivers a pitch against the Minnesota Twins in the first inning at Target Field. Mandatory Credit: David Berding-USA TODAY Sports<br /> Cheslor Cuthbert hit a two-run pinch-hit home run to break a 5-5 tie and highlight a seven-run ninth inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 12-5 Saturday night in Minneapolis.<br /> <br /> Cuthbert hit the first pinch-hit homer of his career off reliever Taylor Rogers (2-4), a 364-foot line drive down the left field line, to drive in Ryan O’Hearn who had opened the inning with a single and was sacrificed to second. The Royals would go on to roll up eight hits and two walks while sending 13 batters to the plate in the inning.<br /> <br /> O’Hearn homered, doubled and had three hits and three RBIs, Jorge Soler finished with three hits and an RBI, and Ryan McBroom had two hits and scored twice for Kansas City (57-99), which snapped a four-game losing streak. Randy Rosario (2-0) retired one batter to end the eighth and pick up the win.<br /> <br /> ADVERTISEMENT<br /> <br /> <br /> LaMonte Wade Jr. homered, tripled and scored two runs, and Luis Arraez, Nelson Cruz and Miguel Sano each had two hits and an RBI for Minnesota (95-60) which remained four games ahead of the Cleveland Indians (91-64) in the American League Central with seven games remaining for both clubs. Cleveland lost to Philadelphia 9-4 earlier Saturday night.<br /> <br /> Kansas City took a 2-0 lead in the second against Minnesota starter Jose Berrios. Alex Gordon was hit by a pitch and took second on a bloop single by McBroom. O’Hearn then drove in Gordon with a double to right. Meibrys Viloria followed with a sacrifice fly to drive in McBroom.<br /> <br /> Minnesota cut it to 2-1 in the third on Wade’s second home run of the season, a 416-foot drive into the second deck in right-center.<br /> <br /> ADVERTISEMENT<br /> <br /> <br /> The Twins then took a 5-2 lead in the fifth. Wade led off with a triple to right-center and then scored on a double by Arraez to tie it, 2-2. After Jorge Polanco walked, Cruz singled in Arraez. Sano made it 4-2 with a single that drove in Polanco and Cruz scored one out later when Adalberto Mondesi misplayed a grounder up the middle by Willians Astudillo for an error.<br /> <br /> Kansas City tied it in the sixth on an RBI single by McBroom and O’Hearn’s 14th homer of the season, a two-run drive into the second deck in right-center that traveled 426 feet.<br /> <br /> —Field Level Media<br /> <br /> Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.<br /> MORE FROM REUTERS<br /> <br /> <br /> Arraez captures American League batting title<br /> <a href="https://www.mlb.com/twins/news/luis-arraez-wins-2022-american-league-batting-title">https://www.mlb.com/twins/news/luis-arraez-wins-2022-american-league-batting-title</a><br /> <br /> <br /> CHICAGO -- Luis Arraez had only been in the big leagues for three months in 2019 when Terry Francona, longtime baseball man and manager of a division rival, issued an intentional walk to the youngster in an important situation and decreed after the game that he could already see that Arraez would, one day, win a batting title.<br /> <br /> That time is now.<br /> <br /> It was clear how badly Arraez wanted this from how the 25-year-old doggedly pushed to the end of the season despite being hampered by a tight and painful left hamstring for much of the second half, hobbling down the line with a noticeable limp as he vowed to finish the season strong -- and on the field. Whether he was on two good legs, one good leg, or somewhere in between, it didn’t matter in ‘22; the hits just kept coming, and coming, and coming.<br /> <br /> On Wednesday, all that work, pain and consistency led Arraez to his lifelong goal. He is the American League’s batting champion, alone atop the leaderboard with a .316 average after Minnesota’s 10-1 win over Chicago at Guaranteed Rate Field, with Yankees slugger Aaron Judge ceding the honor to the Twins’ young contact king by sitting in Wednesday’s season finale after setting a new AL home run record on Tuesday. It marks the Twins’ first batting title since 2009 -- and, chances are, it’s the first of many to come for Arraez.<br /> <br /> "It feels amazing,” Arraez said. “This is one of my goals. I'm living my dream right now. This is amazing for me because I worked hard for this. I just want to say thanks to my hitting coach, Frank Valdez, and to Nelson Cruz. When I got to the DR, my hitting coach said, 'Hey, let's work hard, and then you've got the batting title.' I did it. I want to give this to him, to Twins fans, to my family, and to every person who supported me. I want to give them this."
  • Royals break away from Twins with seven-run ninth <br /> <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2019/09/21/royals-break-away-from-twins-with-seven-run-ninth/">https://www.twincities.com/2019/09/21/royals-break-away-from-twins-with-seven-run-ninth/</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> By Betsy Helfand | bhelfand@pioneerpress.com | <br /> <br /> PUBLISHED: September 21, 2019 at 9:47 pm | UPDATED: September 21, 2019 at 10:55 pm<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />  Sign up for Newsletters and Alerts<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Most Popular <br /> 1. Refused a diploma, football standout takes Cretin-Derham Hall to court <br /> 2. Skimming device found at Eagan Kwik Trip <br /> 3. Charley Walters: It’s Vikings’ fault they’re stuck with Kirk Cousins <br /> 4. After Vikings’ 16-6 loss to Bears, ‘everyone’s frustrated,’ says Mike Zimmer <br /> 5. Charley Walters: Twins hit the jackpot with Luis Arraez <br /> 6. 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Police ID man killed in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff over weekend: He was 29 and a dad <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The sold-out crowd at Target Field was excited and buzzing to begin the ninth inning Saturday, but over the course of a rocky top of the inning, that positive energy was replaced by relative silence and eventually some boos as many fans headed for the exits. <br /> <br /> The Royals (57-99) scored seven runs in the ninth inning to pull away from the Twins, winning 12-5 in the third game of the four-game set in front of an announced crowd of 37,750. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> “When you play a competitive game and you’re in the game until the very end and then it kind of unwinds like that, it’s tough in some ways,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “You play hard for three hours or whatever it is. The guys are giving it everything they have and then seemingly the game gets out of hand at one point, that’s going to happen. It happens a few times every year.” <br /> <br /> Cheslor Cuthbert was the man responsible for breaking open a tie game with a pinch-hit, two-run home run off Twins closer Taylor Rogers in the ninth. Rogers had a rare rough night, giving up three runs while retiring just one batter. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> “That’s baseball. If we’re in a different shift then the ground ball is an out and maybe that kind of drifts foul and it’s a different story,” Rogers said. <br /> <br /> Trevor Hildenberger, brought in after Rogers, also ran into trouble, giving up four runs on four Royals hits and a walk without retiring a batter before Baldelli called upon Jorge Alcala to make his major league debut with the bases loaded. <br /> <br /> Alcala got two outs to get out of the inning, but not before two of the three inherited runners had scored. By the time the top of the ninth was over, the game was out of reach. <br /> <br /> It was a game the Twins (95-60) led just briefly as Jose Berrios was unable to protect a three-run advantage the Twins had gained in the fifth inning. Though his final line looked different than he would have hoped, Berrios was just one out away from turning in his third consecutive quality start. <br /> <br /> Berrios said he felt like his stuff was working for him, but a couple of balls found holes for the Royals, which he said was a little frustrating for him. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> “I felt like they hit the ball around not very hard,” he said. <br /> <br /> Thanks to a double play behind him after two hits to begin the sixth, Berrios was close to getting through six innings having given up just two runs. Instead, Ryan McBroom’s two-out single and Ryan O’Hearn’s two-run home run tarnished Berrios’ line and tied the game 5-5. <br /> <br /> “The way he was throwing the ball, personally I didn’t see that coming. That wasn’t something I was really expecting,” Baldelli said. “I expected him to work through that inning. Not only was his pitch count at a pretty reasonable spot, visually, I thought he looked like he was throwing the ball fine. The line doesn’t look great, but the way he threw the ball, he threw it pretty well.” <br /> <br /> The Twins had rallied for four runs in the bottom of the fifth to give Berrios the short-lived lead. LaMonte Wade Jr., who homered earlier in the game, tripled to lead off the inning and was quickly brought home by a Luis Arraez double. <br /> <br /> Run-scoring singles from Nelson Cruz and Miguel Sano, along with an Adalberto Mondesi error, allowed three more runs to score as part of the Twins’ four-run frame. <br /> <br /> Though the Twins lost, their magic number to clinch the American League Central Division dipped to four as the Cleveland Indians lost to the Phillies, providing a bit of a silver lining after a tough finish. <br /> <br /> “That’s the good stuff,” Rogers said.
  • Dreadful ninth inning for bullpen does in Twins in 12-5 loss to Royals<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.startribune.com/dreadful-ninth-inning-for-bullpen-does-in-twins-in-12-5-loss-to-royals/561011952/">http://www.startribune.com/dreadful-ninth-inning-for-bullpen-does-in-twins-in-12-5-loss-to-royals/561011952/</a><br /> 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 /> GALLERY<br /> GRID<br /> 1/21<br /> 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 /> AARON LAVINSKY – STAR TRIBUNE<br /> 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 /> <br /> TEXT SIZE<br /> 237<br /> EMAIL<br /> PRINT<br /> MORE<br /> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> “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 /> <br /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> “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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> “Honestly,” Berrios said, “I wasn’t aware of that.”<br /> <br /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> “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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> RELATED<br /> Baseball standings, scores and stats<br /> Baseball standings, scores and stats<br /> Tap here for the standings and links to all the numbers you need to follow the pennant races.<br /> 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 /> <br /> “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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> 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 /> <br /> phil.miller@startribune.com MillerStrib
  • Royals 12, Twins 5: You gotta hand it to ‘em<br /> 13<br /> Well, you don’t HAVE to hand it to them, but that’s what the Twins did tonight.<br /> <br /> By Brandon Brooks Sep 21, 2019, 10:38pm EDT<br /> Share this story<br /> <a href="https://www.twinkietown.com/2019/9/21/20877769/royals-12-twins-5-you-gotta-hand-it-to-em">https://www.twinkietown.com/2019/9/21/20877769/royals-12-twins-5-you-gotta-hand-it-to-em</a>
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