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Carlos Correa went 2-for-5 with a double and
two RBIs, Byron Buxton ended an 0-for-26 streak with two hits
and two runs scored and Alex Kirilloff, Christian Vazquez and
Larnach, who finished with four RBIs, each had two hits for the
Twins who outscored the Cubs, 27-4, while hitting eight home
runs in the final two games of the series.
Louie Varland (1-0) earned his second career major league win,
allowing three runs on four hits over 6 1/3 innings. He walked
one and struck out seven.
Christopher Morel and Seiya Suzuki homered for Chicago which
lost for the fifth time in the last seven games. Marcus Stroman
(2-4), who had gone at least five innings in each of his eight
previous starts, took the loss by allowing six runs on a
season-high seven hits over 2 2/3 innings. He walked two and
struck out three.
Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first when Correa drilled a
double down the left field line to drive in Kirilloff, who had
singled.
The Twins then broke the game open with seven runs on seven hits
in the third to extend their lead 8-0. Larnach made it 4-0 with
a three-run homer, a 410-foot drive to center. Nick Gordon then
had an RBI double off the wall in center, driving in Farmer, who
had a hustle double. After Christian Vazquez drove in Gordon
with a single to make it 6-0, Gallo followed with his ninth home
run of the season, a towering 402-foot blast into the plaza, to
make it 8-0.
Morel cut it to 8-1 with a leadoff homer in the fourth, a
461-foot drive into the third deck in left. The Cubs closed to
8-3 in the seventh on Suzuki's second homer of the season and an
RBI single by Nick Madrigal.
Farmer had an RBI single in the seventh to make it 9-3 and the
Twins then had their second seven-run inning of the game in the
eighth highlighted by Taylor's two-run home run off position
player Miles Mastrobuoni who allowed the final four runs on four
hits in one-third of an inning.
--Field Level Media
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