Cleveland Guardians at Minnesota Twins

· Major League Baseball

Cleveland Guardians

75-73, 39-34 Away

Final
5 - 2

Minnesota Twins

69-78, 38-35 Home

Angel Martinez homers and doubles as Guardians rally to beat Twins 5-2

The Guardians moved two games ahead of Toronto in the race for the AL’s third wild-card spot.

Martínez gave the Guardians a 2-1 lead in the seventh with his 15th homer of the season.

After the Twins tied it on Kalen Culpepper's RBI single in the seventh, Martínez hit a one-out double off Yoendrys Gómez (2-3) that moved Travis Bazzana to third. Bazzana scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch by Gómez and Brayan Rocchio brought home two more with a double.

Hunter Gaddis (4-3) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings and Cade Smith retired the side in the ninth for his 36th save.

Twins starter Taj Bradley gave up one hit and four walks while striking out six in six scoreless innings.

Parker Messick held the Twins to three hits and one run with two walks and five strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.

Bradley walked the leadoff hitter in each of the first three innings and allowed Bazzana's leadoff single in the fourth, but the Guardians didn't get a runner past second base.

The Twins didn't do much against Messick, with just two hits through the first five innings. But the hits were back-to-back in the second inning — Kody Clemens' single and Royce Lewis' double — and produced the game's first run.

Up next The Guardians will use RHP Daniel Espino (0-0, 2.70 ERA) as an opener for the middle game of the series on Saturday, with LHP Joey Cantillo (9-9, 4.00) expected to pitch the bulk of the innings. The Twins will start LHP Connor Prielipp (4-7, 5.25).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Jenkins grounded into double play, first to shortstop, Larnach out at second.
	9th Inning	Larnach singled to right.
	9th Inning	Larnach hit for Martin
	9th Inning	Lee fouled out to first.
	9th Inning	Smith relieved Gaddis
	9th Inning	Genao at second base.

Statistics

CLE		MIN
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	2
7	Ground Balls	9
9	Strikeouts	7
4	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
7	Hits	6
1	Stolen Bases	0
6	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
33	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
21	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	1
17	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	0
157	Pitches	143
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
13	Total Bases	7
39	Plate Appearances	36
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
4	Extra Base Hits	1
5.0	Runs Created	1.9
.212	Batting Average	.194
.000	Pinch Hit Average	1.000
.394	Slugging Percentage	.226
.394	Secondary Average	.097
.333	On Base Percentage	.286
.727	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.512
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
5.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.9
35.0	Batter Rating	16.0
33.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.03	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.97
.182	Isolated Power	.032
0.67	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.29
.154	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.056
.182	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.097
9.0	Runs Produced	4.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
81.0	MLB Rating	69.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0

Game Information

Target Field

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Attendance: 20,907 | Capacity:

2026 American League Central Standings

TEAM	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	-	75	W5	0.5192308	81
Chicago	1	76	W2	0.51282054	80
Detroit	7.5	83	W1	0.4713376	74
Minnesota	8.5	84	L1	0.46496814	73
Kansas City	14	89	L4	0.42948717	67

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