Minnesota Twins at Texas Rangers

· Major League Baseball

Minnesota Twins

34-40, 14-21 Away

Final
4 - 2

Texas Rangers

35-37, 17-15 Home

Josh Bell hits 3-run homer and Byron Buxton goes deep for No. 23 as Twins beat Rangers 4-2

All six runs in the game came off homers, with Texas' Joc Pederson delivering a two-run shot in the third off rookie Mike Paredes.

Minnesota's 25-year-old left-hander fell an out short of his first major league win in his second start among four career appearances since May 31. Paredes allowed four hits and two runs in 4 2/3 innings.

Buxton has homered in six of his past nine games to get within one of major league leaders Yordan Alvarez of Houston and Philadelphia's Kyle Schwarber.

Four Twins relievers held Texas to one hit over the final 4 1/3 innings, starting with Taylor Rogers (3-3) striking out Pederson, the only batter he faced, to end the fifth.

Andrew Morris pitched a perfect sixth, Eric Orze allowed a single over 1 2/3 innings and Yoendrys Gómez retired the final four Texas batters for his second save in two days and seventh of the season, six coming with Minnesota.

Josh Smith came off the bench for the Rangers in his first appearance since May 3, fouling out to catcher Alex Jackson on the only pitch he saw from Orze. Smith's six-week absence started with a glute strain and wrist inflammation before he was hospitalized with viral meningitis.

Kyler Fedko made his major league debut for the Twins as the left fielder. The 26-year-old went 0 for 4, striking out his first two times up against Texas left-hander Mackenzie Gore, who struck out a season-high 10 in seven innings. Gore (4-6) allowed four hits and four runs with two walks in seven innings.

Up next Twins RHP Zebby Matthews (2-4, 5,20 ERA) faces Texas RHP Kumar Rocker (2-5, 3.56) on Tuesday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Burger struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Nimmo grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Langford grounded out to pitcher.
	9th Inning	Fedko grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Bell popped out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Lewis popped out to third.

Statistics

MIN		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
4	Ground Balls	14
11	Strikeouts	7
4	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	2
2	Walks	0
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	31
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
5	Runners Left On Base	7
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
16	Fly Balls	10
0	Caught Stealing	0
116	Pitches	104
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	8
33	Plate Appearances	32
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	1
1.9	Runs Created	1.1
.129	Batting Average	.161
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.355	Slugging Percentage	.258
.290	Secondary Average	.161
.182	On Base Percentage	.188
.537	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.446
0.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.4
1.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.1
28.0	Batter Rating	18.0
15.5	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.52	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.25
.226	Isolated Power	.097
0.18	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.00
.061	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.000
.161	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
8.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.2
73.0	MLB Rating	68.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0