MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brooks Lee drove within the game-ending run with a bunt single within the ninth inning on Saturday because the Minnesota Twins beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-5.
Garrett Clevenger (0-4) walked Byron Buxton to start out the ninth. Willi Castro adopted with a single that moved Buxton to 3rd.
Lee then bunted the primary pitch up the first-base line. First baseman Yandy Díaz did not have a play on Buxton, so he let the ball go, and it rolled over the bag for a success.
Danny Jansen singled, doubled and tripled for Tampa Bay, whereas Ryan Jeffers had three hits for the Twins, who walked off the Rays for the second straight day.
Jhoan Duran (5-3) pitched two scoreless innings in reduction.
Rays starter Taj Bradley labored out of some early hassle, then cruised via the center innings, retiring 13 of 14 batters at one level. However he gave up a pair of singles within the sixth and the Rays went to their bullpen.
Kevin Kelly, who allowed Harrison Bader’s walk-off homer on Friday, gave up an RBI single to Lewis. Kody Clemens then hit an 0-1 pitch to deep left for his tenth homer to tie the sport at 5-all.
Within the second inning, the Twins had the bases loaded with no one out and a run in. However Bradley struck out Clemens and received an out on the plate on a dribbler to the mound. Buxton then missed a grand slam by inches, flying out to the wall in left subject to finish the inning.
Brandon Lowe prolonged his hitting streak to twenty video games with a single within the fifth inning. That ties the Rays franchise file, set by Díaz final season.
RHP Drew Rasmussen (7-5, 2.78 ERA) of the Rays will face Twins RHP Joe Ryan (8-4, 2.75) in Sunday’s sequence finale.
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