Minnesota Twins at Arizona Diamondbacks

· Major League Baseball

Minnesota Twins

37-41, 17-22 Away

Final
16 - 8

Arizona Diamondbacks

39-37, 24-16 Home

Buxton hits grand slam in 10-run inning, Twins rout Diamondbacks 16-8

Minnesota Twins vs. Arizona Diamondbacks: Game Highlights

Buxton has 24 homers to tie Houston’s Yordan Alvarez for the American League lead. He has three career grand slams.

The Nos. 6-9 batters combined for 13 of the Twins' 20 hits, with Brooks Lee having four and missing a cycle by a home run. Victor Caratini, Luke Keaschall and Ryan Kreidler each had three hits.

The Twins had 16 hits in the fourth and fifth innings when they sent a combined 24 batters to the plate.

Minnesota started the fifth with three hits to chase Zac Gallen (3-6), who was charged with nine runs and 12 hits — both career highs — in four-plus innings to raise his ERA to 6.10.

Buxton’s home run, to right-center, came off Yilber Díaz, who gave up seven hits and seven runs. He threw 44 pitches and recorded two outs. Philip Abner relieved and got the final out of the inning.

Taj Bradley (6-3) went five innings, giving up three hits and two runs — both on Jorge Barrosa’s second homer of the season. The Twins have won five of their last six games.

Ildemaro Vargas’ three-run double was the big hit in the Diamondbacks’ five-run seventh against reliever Justin Lawrence.

Vargas, who entered midgame for defense as both teams went to the benches, eventually finished the game on the mound for Arizona, pitching 1 2/3 hitless innings.

Up next Minnesota's Mike Paredes (0-0, 4.20) was set to face Arizona's José Cabrera, making his MLB debut, in the series finale Sunday.

This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Ryan Kreidler's last name.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Groover flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Smith struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Gurriel Jr. grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Gómez relieved Orze
	9th Inning	Keaschall in right field.
	9th Inning	Martin in left field.

Statistics

MIN		ARI
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
16	Ground Balls	11
3	Strikeouts	8
16	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
20	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	0
7	Walks	7
0	Catcher Interference	0
16	Runs	8
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
46	At Bats	35
1	Home Runs	1
1	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	16
2	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
4	Doubles	2
27	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	0
189	Pitches	174
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
31	Total Bases	13
53	Plate Appearances	42
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
7	Extra Base Hits	3
13.9	Runs Created	5.3
.435	Batting Average	.229
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.674	Slugging Percentage	.371
.391	Secondary Average	.343
.509	On Base Percentage	.357
1.183	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.729
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
13.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.3
100.0	Batter Rating	47.0
46.0	At Bats Per Home Run	35.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.57	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.14
.239	Isolated Power	.143
2.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.88
.132	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.167
-.043	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.114
32.0	Runs Produced	16.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.5	Balls In Play Average	0.3
136.5	MLB Rating	89.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0