\u201cWe played a damn good series out here. We played a heck of a series, played a lot of good baseball against one of the best teams in the game,\u201d Baldelli said. \u201cI\u2019d argue we didn\u2019t just compete, but we outplayed them for a good portion of the series. And that\u2019s what I want to see. I want to see more of that as we go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Who knows whether he will see Jax, or Bader, or Chris Paddack after next week\u2019s trade deadline? Paddack, whose contract expires in November, pitched six strong innings against the Dodgers, giving up four hits and making only one mistake. That was an 0-2 curveball to Ohtani what rather predictably wound up near the top of the left-field bleachers, his 37th homer of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI talked to my agent yesterday. I\u2019m here until they tell me otherwise. I\u2019m still excited to be a Twin,\u201d Paddack said. \u201cAfter the deadline, everybody can kind of be humans again. Hopefully having success against such a good team, I can build off that and take it into my next one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Royce Lewis also homered, his third of this weeklong road trip, and doubled against Dodgers righthander Tyler Glasnow, who had allowed only two other extra-base hits to right-handed hitters this season. Then he drew a walk off reliever Kirby Yates to ignite what appeared to be the Twins\u2019 game-winning rally in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Yates also walked Brooks Lee and Byron Buxton, loading the bases with nobody out. Castro hit into a double play that scored pinch-runner DaShawn Keirsey Jr. with the tying run, and Bader bounced a chopper off home plate that carried over the mound for a hit, scoring Lee with the go-ahead run.<\/p>\n
Then came the ugly finish, and all the missed chances \u2014 starting with first-base ump Jiminez\u2019s call on a checked-swing appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe played a damn good series out here. We played a heck of a series, played a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-19533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}