{"id":355402,"date":"2026-06-30T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355402\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:58:12","slug":"minnesota-twins-hit-3-homers-hold-off-houston-astros-rally-in-9th-for-5-4-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355402\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins hit 3 homers, hold off Houston Astros rally in 9th for 5-4 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royce Lewis and Victor Caratini hit back-to-back homers, Zebby Matthews pitched seven stingy innings and the Minnesota Twins held off a late rally by the Houston Astros for a 5-4 victory Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Bell launched a two-run shot for the Twins, who led 5-1 before Travis Adams gave up a two-run homer to Taylor Trammell with two outs in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Yoendrys G\u00f3mez entered and immediately served up Cam Smith&#8217;s second home run of the game before retiring Joey Loperfido on a grounder for his ninth save.<\/p>\n<p>Houston had won five of six.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews (4-5) limited the Astros to one run and four hits while striking out seven and walking one.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Lambert (6-5) held Minnesota hitless until Lewis and Caratini went deep in the fourth. Bell&#8217;s drive made it 4-1 in the sixth, and Kody Clemens added an RBI groundout in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert allowed four runs and five hits in 5 2\/3 innings. He had won four straight decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Smith pulled a hanging slider onto the train tracks above left field for a solo homer in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Astros reliever Miguel Ullola made his major league debut, striking out four in two scoreless innings.<\/p>\n<p>Houston returned home from a 5-2 trip and entered Monday an AL-best 15-10 in June.<\/p>\n<p>Astros shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a sat out with left leg discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota placed left-handed reliever Anthony Banda on the 15-day injured list with a left lat strain. The Twins recalled right-hander Cody Laweryson from Triple-A St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Twins RHP Joe Ryan (5-4, 3.18 ERA) faces Astros RHP Mike Burrows (3-8, 5.48) in the middle game of the series Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royce Lewis and Victor Caratini hit back-to-back homers, Zebby Matthews pitched seven stingy innings and the Minnesota Twins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,5513,58,57,42750,55030,154],"class_list":["post-355402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}