In a series that previously featured two walk-off wins from the wannabe-Los Angeles Angels, this Sunday gave them the opportunity to continue staving off 100 losses. Instead, Twins OF Alan Roden said \u201cnot today, Anaheim!\u201d and almost single-handedly powered the MIN offense to a big victory and drove LAA ever closer to that first triple-digit loss column in franchise history!<\/p>\n
The Twins scored early: RBI knocks from Josh Bell & Roden in T3 off Angels SP Ryan \u201cNot the Star Wars director\u201d Johnson. 2-0 MIN.<\/p>\n
The Twins scored in the middle: In T5, Bell again knocked in a safety with a single. 3-0 MIN<\/p>\n
In T7, Ben Ross singled home \u201cRally\u201d Emma(nuel) Rodriguez\u2014then himself came around to score on a stolen base attempt and error by LAA C Ballesteros! 5-0 MIN.<\/p>\n
The Twins scored late: With Brooks Lee & Bell clogging the base paths, Roden let them trot home on a 378-foot wall-clearer to RF!! 8-0 MIN.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, MN pitching was piling up goose eggs: Six 1-hit, 0 ER innings (3 BB, 8 K) from SP Dean Kremer followed by a three-inning, 1 H, 0 ER, 3 K save from Bailey Ober. Add another unlikely contributor to the SV column in 2026!<\/p>\n
Your final: Minnesota Twins 8, Los Angeles Angels 0.<\/p>\n
With most of the Minnesota sporting focus (mine included, I\u2019ll admit) on a 2-0 Vikings start with victories over the Packers (last Sun) and Bears (today) to open \u201826, the hardball boys at least contributed some excitement of their own this late-afternoon in Hollywoodland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a series that previously featured two walk-off wins from the wannabe-Los Angeles Angels, this Sunday gave them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,185073],"class_list":["post-470421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-minnesota-twins-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}