Arraez, Miranda homer back-to-back; Twins beat Rangers 2-1

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Luis Arraez and Jose Miranda hit back-to-back house runs within the first inning, and that was sufficient for Dylan Bundy because the Minnesota Twins beat the Texas Rangers 2-1 on Friday night time.

Bundy (7-5) gave up a run on simply two hits in 5 1/3 innings. Minnesota received its fourth recreation in a row and stored tempo with Cleveland, which leads the Twins by one recreation within the American League Central. Jorge López walked a pair of batters however closed out his third save with the Twins and twenty second total.

Arraez, the AL batting chief, opened the scoring together with his seventh homer of the yr. He had six homers in 245 main league video games coming into the season. Miranda, the rookie who was the crew’s minor league participant of the yr final season, adopted together with his twelfth homer.

Martín Pérez (9-4) surrendered two runs on 5 hits and three walks in six innings. The previous Twins left-hander had seven strikeouts. He’s allowed greater than three runs simply 4 occasions in 24 begins this season, together with a six-run outing towards Minnesota on July 9.

Adolis García led off the second with a single to increase his hitting streak to 16 video games, the longest lively streak within the majors and the longest for Texas since Elvis Andrus hit safely in 19 straight in 2018.

The Rangers have misplaced three of 4 and 13 of 17 for the reason that All-Star break.

García’s single was the one hit towards Bundy by the fifth. Rookie Bubba Thompson singled to start out the sixth and stole second base. Thompson scored on Nathaniel Lowe’s single off reliever Caleb Thielbar.

It was the primary run allowed by the Twins after 31 straight scoreless innings, falling one wanting the membership document set in 2004.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Rangers: RHP Joe Barlow was positioned on the 15-day injured checklist with one other recurrence of a blister on his proper index finger. Barlow, who has been Texas’ nearer for a lot of the season, has 13 saves and a 3.16 ERA this season. RHP A.J. Alexy was recalled from Triple-A Spherical Rock.

Minnesota Twins’ Jose Miranda, proper, celebrates with Luis Arraez after hitting a house run towards the Texas Rangers in the course of the first inning of a baseball recreation Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Minneapolis.

Twins: RHP Tyler Mahle (shoulder fatigue) won’t throw for a couple of days and he’s unlikely to start out in his subsequent flip within the rotation. The crew hasn’t determined if he could have a stint on the injured checklist. … 2B Jorge Polanco was again within the lineup after lacking three video games with knee soreness.

UP NEXT

RHP Chris Archer (2-6, 4.15 ERA) will begin for Minnesota on Saturday night within the second recreation of the four-game sequence. Texas will counter with RHP Glenn Otto (5-8, 4.96). Archer gave up three runs in 4 innings in his final begin. Otto has allowed two runs or much less in his final three begins.

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