Joe Ryan pitched seven scoreless innings and the visiting Minnesota Twins rolled to a 6-1 victory over the host New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon.
The Twins won a series over the Yankees in New York for the first time since 2014 by scoring 17 runs in the final two games after opening the series with a 5-2 loss on Friday.
Ryan (6-5) allowed three singles in his fourth scoreless start this season after struggling against the Dodgers and Astros in his previous two starts. He struck out nine and walked one.
The All-Star right-hander became the first Twin to toss at least seven shutout innings against the Yankees in New York since Johan Santana on July 27, 2005.
Brooks Lee had three hits after entering the game hitless in his previous 10 at-bats. He highlighted his fifth three-hit game this season with an RBI single off New York’s Ryan Weathers (3-7) in the fourth when the Twins took a 2-0 lead.
Royce Lewis scored on Lee’s hit and delivered a two-run, bases-loaded single in the fifth to push Minnesota’s lead to 4-0.
Josh Bell followed up his two-homer game with an RBI single in the first when his fly ball popped out of right fielder Max Schuemann’s glove in front of the fence.
Bell’s hit occurred after Byron Buxton was caught stealing second as Kody Clemens struck out. Buxton, voted an All-Star on Saturday, exited after the first due to aggravating his hip injury.
Austin Martin reached base four times and drew a bases-loaded walk in the sixth when the Twins scored a pair of unearned runs off Camilo Doval.
Clemens lifted a sacrifice fly for a six-run lead, and those runs scored after New York shortstop Anthony Volpe misplayed Ryan Kriedler’s grounder.
Ryan retired 13 straight before Cody Bellinger reached on an infield single and Volpe walked to begin the seventh. Following a mound visit, Ryan fanned Amed Rosario.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. had one of New York’s five hits with a single in the second but was picked off on the next pitch. He exited after the fifth due to discomfort in his right big toe as the Yankees lost for the ninth time in 10 games.
Weathers allowed four runs on six hits in four-plus innings. The left-hander struck out six, walked two and exited after putting the first two hitters of the fifth on base.
The Yankees scored their lone run on a double-play grounder by Jasson Dominguez in the ninth.
–Field Level Media
