Twins hit three homers, ship A’s to nineteenth loss in 20 video games

Royce Lewis ended a 0-for-32 drought with a two-run double and Byron Buxton had a two-run single because the Twins beat the Athletics for the second time in two nights to start a four-game collection. Larnach had three of Minnesota’s 12 hits.

The Athletics dropped their eighth straight sport and have misplaced 19 of their previous 20 contests.

Minnesota’s Pablo Lopez gave up two runs and 4 hits over 5 innings. He struck out 4 and walked three earlier than leaving with proper shoulder tightness, exiting after his third warmup pitch forward of the sixth inning.

Three relievers completed up for the Twins, who scored precisely 10 runs for the second evening in a row.

Minnesota trailed 2-0 earlier than Castro hit a solo homer to left off Jacob Lopez with one out within the fourth.

The Twins pushed 4 runs throughout within the sixth, with Larnach opening the inning by crushing a 3-1 fastball and sending it 432 ft to proper to tie the rating.

One out later, Castro hit a line shot over the wall in left to present Minnesota a 3-2 lead. It was his second two-homer outing in 5 video games.

The bases have been loaded later within the inning when Buxton delivered a two-run single off Osvaldo Bido to present the Twins a 5-2 lead.

In the underside of the inning, Shea Langeliers led off with a double, and two groundouts pushed him throughout.

The Twins responded within the seventh as Larnach singled and Carlos Correa walked to begin the inning. One out later, Ty France singled off Tyler Ferguson, and Brooks Lee was hit by a pitch to pressure in Larnach.

Lewis then ripped a two-run double off the fence in left-center to make it 8-3. The hit was Lewis’ first since May 19.

A wild pitch made it 9-3. One inning later, Correa’s infield out plated one other.

The Athletics scored within the first inning when Lawrence Butler led off with a double and Brent Rooker adopted with an RBI single.

The A’s tacked on within the third with Tyler Soderstrom stroked his first main league triple and scored on Langeliers’ sacrifice fly.

Jacob Lopez struck out a career-best 9 in 4 1/3 innings of reduction. He gave up 5 runs, 5 hits and one stroll.

Grant Holman served because the opener for the Athletics and gave up one hit and one stroll in 1 1/3 scoreless innings.

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