MILWAUKEE (AP) – Jedd Gyorko beat the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday 6-4.
The Brewers recovered when Christian Yelich beat the Twins with a double and a punch. With the Twins moving his frame to the right in opposition to the left-handed hitter, Yelich responded by hitting a Grounder on the third baseline and toward left field.
Gyorko followed Taylor Rogers (1-2) with a shot. Twins’ average outfielder Byron Buxton made a leap for a circus capture, but Gyorko’s behavior flew over him.
“It felt from the beginning, ” said Gyorko. “I know this guy in the middle of the box catches almost everything. So you have to hit him about 10 feet after the fence or he’ll catch him. But from the beginning, I think he had a chance and fortunately he came here.
Rogers entered the eighth inning of a tie one night after running the ninth to get his fourth save.
“Rog has been wonderful to us, ” said the twins manager, Rocco Baldelli. “We’ll depend to the fullest on Rog and put that we can find at the end of the match.”
Eddie Rosario de los Mellizos and Manny Pina de los Cerveceros had two house races. Jorge Polanco of Minnesota and Avisail García of Milwaukee also made the circuit.
Rosario, whose Grand Slam was the Twins’ only problem in their 4-2 win in Milwaukee on Monday, helped Minnesota take a 4-1 lead with a home run in their first two home races. The Brewers recovered to tie the game with a solo shot by Manny Pina in the fifth and two issues in the sixth.
Milwaukee reduced the deficit in part when Garcia led the back of the first game by making a home race to deliver Tyler Clippard, who worked an inning as a starter in a bullpen game for the Twins.
The Twins extended their lead in the third when Rosario hit a home run after Nelson Cruz scored a first baseman.
Lindblom recorded eight strikeouts, the best of his career, withdrew seven in his final start, but dropped all three races in his four-run relief. Alex Claudio, Eric Yardley, David Phelps, Devin Williams (1-1) and Josh Hader combined for five blank innings.
Hader walked one and pulled out three in the ninth for his third stop.
Pina provoked the return of the Brewers. He the sixth with a house ran to give up Matt Wisler. The Brewers then received two individual outs from Orlando Arcia and Avisail Garcia to put the runners on the corners, but Trevor May ended the risk by forcing Keston Hiura to bat.
In Pina’s side to the plate, he made a 3-0 run from May on the wall in the middle right for a two-point shot that tied the game to 4.
“I don’t like swinging 3-0 because sometimes we try to swing too hard or something like that,” Pina said. “Most of the time when I do it, it’s a pop-out or ground ball. Then I see (third-base coach) Eddie (Sedar) and Eddie gives me the green light, ‘Swing the bat,’ so I say OK, I’m going to swing, but the pitch has to be middle-middle. That’s what I was looking for.”
COACH ROOM
Brewers: Milwaukee activated first baseman/fielder Ryan Braun from the disabled list and application coach Mark Mathias chose the team’s choice site.
Braun, who had not played since July 29 due to a minor in the right index finger, in the starting lineup on Tuesday as a designated hitter.
TWIN TRADE
The Twins acquired the Arizona Diamondbacks’ draw player Ildemaro Vargas for monetary reasons.
Vargas, 29, had finished 3 out of 20 in eight games with Arizona before being signed on Thursday. Hit Array269 with six home races and 24 RBIs in games last season.
Following
Kenta Maeda (2-0, 2.65) the Twins and Eric Lauer (0-1, 9.53) for the Brewers with a series of three games ending Wednesday in Milwaukee.
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