Minnesota Twins Power Past Seattle Mariners: Correa and Larnach Shine in 6-3 Victory
MINNEAPOLIS – Carlos Correa and Trevor Larnach homered off Seattle Mariners starter George Kirby in the first inning against Minnesota and the Minnesota Twins beat the Mariners 6-3 to help Chris Paddack earn his fourth straight start on Wednesday night.
Willi Castro went deep in the second and hit an RBI triple in the fourth to put the Minnesota Twins ahead by three, giving Paddack (4-1) enough fuel to continue his career hitting streak.
The right-hander, who missed most of the past two seasons while recovering from elbow surgery, outscored his Minnesota Twins by 10 hits to finish sixth. He allowed a solo home run to Mitch Garver, the only run against him.
“It’s just a damn good outing all around,” manager Rocco Baldelli said.
The Minnesota Twins allowed Paddack to throw a season-high 99 pitches, the second of his career, before Caleb Thielbar struck out the final two in the sixth. Paddack wanted to shake Baldell’s hand and thank him for his trust.
“I have very few opportunities to ask more of Rocco this year,” Paddack said, “and tonight was one of them.”
Castro, who filled in as a regular midfielder during Byron Buxton’s absence, lucked into the club’s summer sausage after going deep. After placing the tightly packed meat on the next home shelf, he sniffed his batter several times to make sure there was no rot.
“I know it will open one day,” Castro said. “It’s almost here. That day is almost here.”
Cal Raleigh, who hit a grand slam Tuesday to make it 10-6, drove a two-run double off the wall to right center off Griffin Jax to put the Seattle Mariners within one. in the seventh.
Minnesota’s bullpen remains in flux with key setup men Brock Stewart and Justin Topa on the harmed list. But Jax pitched a culminate eighth to bridge the crevice to Jhoan Duran who got his third spare with a culminate ninth inning after Ryan Jeffers and Max Kepler hit RBI copies within the eighth to cushion the lead.
The Sailors went 1 for 7 with three strikeouts with runners in scoring position.
“It’s just truly difficult to induce energizes going and maintain any force when we’re not putting the ball in play,” supervisor Scott Servais said.
Kirby (3-3), who had permitted as it were two domestic runs to date this season, surrendered three-plus homers for fair the third time in 64 career begins.
“He truly tosses the fastball,” Castro said. “We were truly forceful with him.”
Kirby gave up four runs in five innings, falling flat to include to Seattle Mariners’s add up to of 22 quality begins that’s tied for the major association lead with Philadelphia.
“There’s nothing physically off-base with George. I know everybody’s got all these thoughts, whatever,” Servais said. “It’s not coming out right now.”
Kirby Snead, who was advanced from Triple-A Tacoma some time recently the diversion, pitched a culminate 6th in getting to be the 1,000th player to seem in a diversion in Sailors history.
Minnesota Twins & Seattle Mariners TRAINING ROOM
Seattle Mariners: RHP Tayler Saucedo, who sprained his right knee while covering first base Tuesday, was placed on the 15-day disabled list before the game.
Minnesota Twins: Topa, acquired by the Seattle Mariners in a trade for 2B Jorge Polanco to play a key role in a late-hitting bullpen, aggravated patellar tendinitis in his left knee during Sunday’s rehab outing.
Upcoming NEXT
RHP Logan Gilbert (3-0, 1.69 ERA) will start the finale of the Mariners’ four-game series on Thursday afternoon. RHP Pablo López (3-2, 4.30 ERA) will take the mound for the Twins.