MINNEAPOLIS — The Tampa Bay Rays scored on a throwing error by Minnesota’s Royce Lewis with two outs within the tenth inning for a 3-2 victory that stopped the Twins’ six-game successful streak on Wednesday evening.
The Rays, who improved to a significant league-best 25-11 in video games determined by one or two runs, received for simply the fourth time of their final 12 video games.
Jason Adam (4-1) pitched an ideal ninth for the victory. Phil Maton labored a 1-2-3 inning within the tenth for his second save, with nearer Pete Fairbanks unavailable after the thumb on his throwing hand was bruised by a comebacker the evening earlier than.
Jorge Alcala (1-2) hit Randy Arozarena with a pitch to start out the inning. He threw a sinker within the dust so wildly it ricocheted off the backstop and proper to catcher Christian Vázquez for a comparatively simple throw-out of computerized runner Jose Siri at third.
Lewis, who snagged Siri’s grounder with the bases loaded within the seventh and beat Amed Rosario to the bag for the inning-ending pressure out, fielded a pointy chopper by Jonny DeLuca to his left and despatched his deep throw crusing previous first baseman Carlos Santana that permit Arozarena rating the go-ahead run.
Lewis went 3 for 4 with a stroll and a tiebreaking house run within the fifth inning that broke a part of a videoboard at Goal Discipline.
Isaac Paredes hit his team-leading eleventh house run within the third off Twins starter Joe Ryan, who sailed by means of six innings with a 2-1 lead earlier than a bumpy efficiency by the bullpen. Ryan delivered one other bid to make his first All-Star group, permitting one run on six hits and one stroll.
Ryan, who was chosen within the seventh spherical by the Rays in the identical 2018 draft that fetched Bradley within the fifth spherical, was traded to the Twins in 2021 for 55 video games of veteran slugger Nelson Cruz. The Rays misplaced within the division sequence of the playoffs about 2½ months later.
Rays starter Taj Bradley gave up two runs on seven hits and two walks in six innings.
Lewis hit his eighth homer in 14 video games since getting back from a severely strained quadriceps muscle suffered within the season opener. With an exit velocity measured at 108.7 mph, this one ricocheted off the ribbon board that fronts the second deck above left subject — and appeared to knock out a protracted part of LED lights that used to depict the rotating ads. The purple Budweiser logos that had been up on the time wound up with a clean black splotch, as did the remaining that adopted.
In 90 profession main league video games, together with the playoffs, Lewis has hit 29 homers with 74 RBIs.
Cole Sands relieved Ryan for the seventh and surrendered a one-out bloop single to Ben Rortvedt earlier than pinch-runner Jose Caballero stole second base and took third when shortstop Carlos Correa let the throw bounce out of his glove and into middle subject.
Yandy Diaz tied the sport with the softest of singles, a swinging bunt of kinds that dribbled down the third-base line the place Lewis had no play.
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Fairbanks performed catch with none issues earlier than the sport after his minor harm on Tuesday. He mentioned he feels regular and expects to be accessible for motion by Thursday.
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