Royce Lewis hit an RBI single in the 10th inning, and the Minnesota Twins recovered from losing a seven-run lead to beat the Colorado Rockies 9-8 on Friday night in Minneapolis.
Lewis and Byron Buxton finished with three hits each, Kody Clemens and Brooks Lee homered and Trevor Larnach finished with two hits for Minnesota.
Jake McCarthy homered and finished with three hits, Hunter Goodman also went deep and TJ Rumfield had two hits for Colorado, which rallied again in the late innings but couldn’t complete the comeback.
The Rockies failed to score in their half of the 10th, but the Twins cashed in on their chance.
With Fedko on second base as the automatic runner, Jimmy Herget (0-2) intentionally walked Victor Caratini. Herget’s wild pitch allowed Fedko to move to third ,and he came home with the winning run on Lewis’ single through the pulled-in infield.
Andrew Morris (3-2) pitched the ninth for Minnesota, which wasted seven strong innings by starter Taj Bradley, who faltered in the eighth with the Twins leading 7-0.
The first two Colorado batters reached, ending his night, and McCarthy loaded the bases with an infield single off left-hander Kody Funderburk. A groundout, Goodman’s sacrifice fly and Rumfield’s RBI single made it 7-3.
Colorado stunned Minnesota in the ninth against reliever Eric Orze. Cole Carrigg led off with a walk and scored on Edouard Julien’s double, and McCarthy followed with his sixth home run.
Kyle Karros hit a pinch-hit double and Goodman blasted a 451-foot shot to left, his 22nd homer, to put the Rockies ahead 8-7.
The Twins tied it in the bottom of the ninth against righty Antonio Senzatela with three straight one-out singles, the last by Buxton, to send it to extra innings.
The Twins had built a 7-0 lead on a pair of two-run homers, by Clemens in the first and Lee in the second, and they scored three more in the fifth against starter Tomoyuki Sugano.
Sugano scuffled through five innings, allowing seven runs on eight hits, while Bradley was in control through the seventh.
Bradley allowed two runs on three hits and struck out six in seven-plus innings.
–Field Level Media
