Two innings later, Gallo avenged the call in his coach's absence - and had the opportunity to do so because of stellar bullpen performances. "All night, and you know it," he seemed to say, after a pinch-hitting Gallo was called out on a borderline third strike to open the seventh. He was ejected in the seventh, as he appeared to explicitly voice his frustrations with plate umpire Nic Lentz's strike zone. The Twins struck out 14 times and left 10 runners on base, though hitting coach David Popkins wasn't around to see all of them unwind their batting gloves. "Didn't bring him home at the rate we wanted to.
"Grinded through a bunch of at bats, had a ton of guys on base," Baldelli told reporters after the game. Correa came up with two runners on in the eighth but hit into his league-leading 17th double play. Alex Kirilloff grounded out to leave the bases loaded in the fifth inning and Buxton took a called third strike to do the same in the sixth. After Oakland scored three runs off a struggling Kenta Maeda, pinch hitter Edouard Julien tied the score in the fourth inning with a two-out double off reliever Austin Pruitt, the second of seven A's pitchers.īut the Twins left runners on second and third in the fourth.
They left Farmer stranded at third as Oakland starter Ken Waldichuk retired eight in a row. Gallo delivered off a fastball clocked at 99.9 miles per hour after the Twins had mostly failed time and again with runners in scoring position following their opening outburst.
"I was like, 'I'm in trouble here.' I'm just going to swing and see what happens, and somehow I ended up hitting the ball." "I didn't even see the first pitch," Gallo said in a Bally Sports postgame interview.
Joey Gallo's tiebreaking two-run blast off of rookie flamethrower Shintaro Fujinami in the top of the ninth salvaged a 5-4 Twins victory, though they fielded the same players who suffered the same hitless stints that have plagued their position in an atrocious AL Central all season.Īt 46-46, the Twins find themselves back in first place by a half-game.
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