{"id":839950,"date":"2026-08-01T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839950\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:47:09","slug":"lewis-hits-tying-homer-in-seventh-and-keaschall-provides-go-ahead-double-as-twins-beat-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839950\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis hits tying homer in seventh and Keaschall provides go-ahead double as Twins beat Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Royce Lewis<\/a> hit a tying home run in the seventh inning and Luke Keaschall<\/a> smacked a go-ahead double as the surging Minnesota Twins<\/a> beat the Seattle Mariners<\/a> 5-3 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Minnesota\u2019s seventh victory in nine games gave the Twins (56-55) a winning record for the first time since April 21, when they were 12-11. They are tied with Cleveland for the final American League playoff spot, and both teams are three games behind the first-place Chicago White Sox<\/a> in the AL Central. <\/p>\n

The skidding Mariners (53-58) have lost three straight and eight of 10 to fall three games behind AL West-leading Houston. <\/p>\n

Yoendrys G\u00f3mez walked two in the ninth but locked down his 14th save of the season. Kody Funderburk<\/a> (2-1) tossed 1 1\/3 innings of scoreless relief after Zebby Matthews<\/a> struck out a career-high 10 in five innings of three-run ball.<\/p>\n

Lewis led off the seventh with a no-doubt drive to left field off left-hander Jos\u00e9 A. Ferrer (4-2) to make it 3-all. Alan Roden<\/a> reached on an infield single and, one-out later, Keaschall put the Twins up for good with his RBI double off Eduard Bazardo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ryan Jeffers<\/a> added an insurance run in the eighth. He drove a sweeper from Bazardo into the Twins bullpen for his 10th home run to give Minnesota a 5-3 lead. <\/p>\n

Seattle took a 2-0 advantage in the first on a two-out, two-run double by Cal Raleigh<\/a> off Matthews. A two-run homer by Brooks Lee<\/a> in the second evened the score before Seattle went back in front 3-2 on a homer by Cole Young<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Mariners placed third baseman J.P. Crawford<\/a> on the 10-day injured list with left wrist inflammation and recalled infielder Leo Rivas<\/a> from Triple-A Tacoma. <\/p>\n

The Twins acquired right-hander Dean Kremer<\/a> from Baltimore and veteran reliever A.J. Minter<\/a> from the New York Mets<\/a> in separate trades Friday. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP Logan Gilbert<\/a> (8-6, 3.44 ERA) gets the ball for Seattle on Saturday against Minnesota LHP Connor Prielipp<\/a> (3-5, 4.73).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Andrew Destin, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Royce Lewis hit a tying home run in the seventh inning and Luke Keaschall smacked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-839950","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\/839950","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=839950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}