The Minnesota Twins won Wednesday night’s rubber lucifer astatine Daikin Park, beating the Houston Astros 8-3 down homers from Josh Bell, Kody Clemens and Luke Keaschall and an 11-strikeout nighttime from starter Taj Bradley.
Bell opened the scoring successful the archetypal inning, driving a two-out, two-run changeable disconnected Houston starter Tatsuya Imai 452 feet to halfway tract for his 11th location tally of the season. The blast enactment Minnesota up 2-0 and stretched Bell’s roadworthy hitting streak to 16 games, a vocation high.
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Houston answered successful the bottommost fractional erstwhile Jose Altuve scored connected an Isaac Paredes double-play grounder. It was the lone tally Bradley would springiness up.
Clemens broke the crippled unfastened successful the second, connecting connected a three-run homer that traveled 399 feet to right-center and made it 5-1. The homer was his 14th of the season, a full that done Wednesday ties Brooks Lee for 2nd connected the Twins down Byron Buxton’s 25.
The aboriginal harm chased Imai aft conscionable 1 1/3 innings. Charged with 5 earned runs connected 4 hits and 5 walks, the Houston starter needed 34 pitches to get done the archetypal inning unsocial and fell to 5-4.
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Bradley made definite the pb held up. From Christian Walker to extremity the archetypal inning done the extremity of the fourth, each 10 outs helium recorded came via strikeout, a tally Nick Allen yet stopped with a bouncer successful the fifth.
Bradley worked 5 innings successful all, allowing conscionable the 1 tally connected 4 hits and 3 walks portion striking retired 11 connected 97 pitches. The 11 strikeouts tied a vocation precocious helium has present matched 4 times, and the triumph pushed his play enactment to 7-3 with a 3.86 ERA and 102 strikeouts done 16 starts.
Trevor Larnach tacked connected 2 much successful the 5th with a two-run azygous that made it 7-1, portion of a 3-for-5 nighttime that included a double.
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Houston’s lone effect aft the archetypal came successful the sixth, erstwhile Joey Loperfido and Nick Allen delivered run-scoring singles disconnected reliever Cody Laweryson. Neither tally was earned, arsenic Minnesota made 2 errors connected the night.
Keaschall made it 3 location runs for the Twins successful the eighth, sending a solo changeable to left-center for his 3rd of the season. Hitting successful the No. 9 spot, helium crossed the sheet 3 times.
The triumph besides secured Minnesota a 3rd consecutive bid triumph distant from home, thing the nine had not managed since May 2025. Wednesday’s triumph moved the Twins to 42-46, bully for 3rd successful the AL Central and 4 1/2 games retired of archetypal place.
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The Twins are disconnected Thursday earlier opening a three-game acceptable against the New York Yankees connected Friday, July 3, wherever they volition look to marque it 4 consecutive roadworthy bid wins.
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