The Twins promoted eight players before Friday\u2019s game. A couple of players joked they should\u2019ve wore nametags during batting practice. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is weird when your friends that you\u2019ve been with for so long are just gone the next day,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cWe\u2019re obviously a small-market team, so it\u2019s like you know that the roster is going to be pretty sturdy for the year, and then this happens with a lot of guys that you expect to be with for the next couple years. It\u2019s just sobering.\u201d <\/p>\n
Despite all the changes, the results against the Guardians, particularly in close games, were the same. The Twins have lost 13 consecutive one-run games at Progressive Field. The Guardians have won 20 of their past 28 home games against the Twins despite being outscored 119-106. <\/p>\n
In the 10th inning, Funderburk misplayed a Steven Kwan bunt, stepping in front of charging third baseman Royce Lewis. Three batters later, Manzardo deposited a slider into left field for a game-winning hit. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to play good fundamental baseball,\u201d Baldelli said. \u201cWe have to make the plays, take the outs they\u2019re giving us. They were trying to give us an out and we weren\u2019t able to get the out. It was a good bunt. It was a bunt that was a play that should\u2019ve made fairly easily, and we weren\u2019t able to make it.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Twins were gifted two runs in the seventh inning. Brooks Lee hit a one-out single off lefty reliever Erik Sabrowski and Christian V\u00e1zquez was hit by a pitch. Two batters later, after righthander Hunter Gaddis entered with two outs, Austin Martin hit a dribbler in front of the plate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twins promoted eight players before Friday\u2019s game. A couple of players joked they should\u2019ve wore nametags during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-46566","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\/46566","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=46566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}