Coco Crisp hit a bases-loaded triple, Scott Kazmir faced the minimum through six innings before running into trouble, and the Oakland A's beat the Minnesota Twins 6-5 on Friday night for their 11th straight win in the series.
Not even the All-Star break could cool off the Tampa Bay Rays.
Ben Zobrist homered and Evan Longoria had three RBIs to lead the Rays to a 6-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.
After totaling two runs in the first two games of their series in Seattle, the Twins were eager to score as many as possible Wednesday night. So even after putting up eight in the first four innings, Minnesota players were clamoring for more.
The Minnesota Twins had their top two starting pitchers set up to start this series against a sputtering New York Yankees team.
First, Phil Hughes faltered against his former team. Then Kyle Gibson got roughed up. Now, the Yankees are feeling better and the Twins are in quite a funk.
Kendrys Morales slapped a line drive away from the Texas shift, landing it just inside the foul line in left field where the only person close to it was a security guard scrambling to get out of the way.
A deft leap from the guard kept the ball in play and sent the Twins on their way to ending a 10-game road losing streak.
C.J. Wilson surrendered five runs in the second inning after his teammates had scored five in the first, but Mike Trout regained the lead for the Los Angeles Angels in the bottom of the second with a two-run homer, and manager Mike Scioscia's much maligned bullpen hung on for an 8-6 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.
The elation in the Minnesota dugout after Chris Parmelee broke a scoreless tie on a solo homer in the 10th inning didn’t last long.
Seemingly on the verge of ending a four-game losing streak, the Twins instead lost their fifth in a row when Boston’s David Ortiz and Mike Napoli delivered back-to-back homers off Casey Fien and the Red Sox won it 2-1 Wednesday.
Kyle Gibson faced Miguel Cabrera with the bases loaded in the fifth inning, clinging to a one-run lead. He delivered the pitch and got the result he wanted.