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Solano’s bases-clearing triple caps decisive body, helps safe collection win vs. Guardians
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CLEVELAND — The sinking line drive first hit the grass in shallow middle area, then it snuck beneath the glove of Cleveland middle fielder Myles Straw. He windmilled his arms, rotated and ran helplessly after the baseball because it rolled additional and additional away to the warning monitor.
“That was the knockout there. We knocked them out of the sport proper there,” Minnesota catcher Christian Vázquez stated.
It may need knocked the Guardians out of the American League Central title chase, too.
- Video games remaining: at CLE (1), vs. NYM (3), vs. TB (3), at CWS (4), at CIN (3), vs. LAA (3), vs. OAK (3), at COL (3)
- Standings replace: The Twins (73-66) maintain a seven-game lead on the Guardians (66-73) for the AL Central title. Minnesota is at present the third-best division chief, which means it could host a best-of-three Wild Card Collection vs. the ultimate Wild Card entrant beginning on Oct. 3.
- Magic quantity: 17 (for AL Central)
As that ball rolled, three baserunners touched dwelling plate as Donovan Solano raced to 3rd with a triple, capping a five-run explosion within the eighth inning that carried the Twins to an 8-3 victory on Tuesday night time at Progressive Area. It additionally secured a win within the groups’ remaining — and most crucial — collection of the season.
Minnesota’s division lead prolonged to seven video games with solely 23 left to play, and just one head-to-head matchup remaining towards Cleveland — that being Wednesday’s collection finale.
“Even when it’s shut or we’re down, we’ve simply saved coming,” supervisor Rocco Baldelli stated. “We simply haven’t stopped. It’s an excellent feeling sitting in my chair understanding these guys are feeling that, all the time able to that.”
Wednesday’s finale continues to be necessary for the AL Central race in that the winner will maintain the tiebreaker within the occasion of a tie atop the standings. However that risk has grown slimmer as a result of, whatever the final result of that recreation, the Twins have taken care of enterprise by profitable the collection.
At worst, Minnesota will go away Cleveland with a six-game lead within the division. The Twins will face groups with a dropping report in 16 of their 22 remaining regular-season video games.
“The whole lot is collectively as a group, particularly on this collection,” Solano stated. “That is an excellent signal for us. We have to proceed that for the remainder of the season.”
After lacking an earlier likelihood to largely put the division on ice by dropping two powerful video games to Cleveland at Goal Area final week, Minnesota responded with a 4-1 highway journey that includes collection victories towards the Rangers and Guardians — each playoff-hopeful groups.
The Twins have outscored these opponents by 24 runs (47-23), due to their common of 9.4 runs per recreation (helped by the 20-run outburst in Monday’s collection opener).
After ready for the offense to enhance its stalwart pitching workers for a lot of the season, Minnesota’s bats have lastly come to life within the second half, rating fifth within the Majors in wRC+ for the reason that All-Star break coming into Tuesday.
“We’re grinding numerous actually good [at-bats], and if you try this, you’re placing your self in an excellent place,” Baldelli stated. “I believe we’ve been in an excellent place during the last week, during the last month, however it comes one pitch at a time.”
All aspects are lastly beginning to click on because the Twins had hoped — simply when it issues most.
Sonny Grey, who had hoped to earn the belief to pitch out of a late jam, succeeded in a possibility to take action when Baldelli left him in a tie recreation with runners on the corners and one out within the sixth. Grey escaped with a strikeout and a lineout to cap an eighth high quality begin in his previous 9 outings.
Carlos Correa, taking part in by the ache of plantar fasciitis, has led the way in which on protection along with his hard-nosed and crisp fielding, exemplified as soon as once more by a slick cease and tag on a strikeout-throwout double play to assist Grey out of a third-inning jam.
“Carlos put his physique on the road and went on the market, and put his nostril in there, to ensure he obtained the tag down,” Grey stated. “Very appreciative of that. That is simply what profitable baseball seems like.”
Rather less than a yr in the past, the Twins’ epic September collapse from rivalry noticed them lose 4 video games in a pivotal five-game set on this very stadium towards the Guardians.
This season, they’ve flipped the script.
“We’re excited,” Solano stated. “We’re taking part in proper now prefer it’s the playoffs each time we play. It is a good signal for us. If the group could make the playoffs, that is how we’ve to play.”