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Former Rangers closer Kirby Yates, losing his grasp of the strike zone, put Lewis, Brooks Lee and Byron Buxton on base to open the eighth with L.A. ahead 2-1. The Twins, batting an MLB-worst .181 with the bases loaded, took advantage anyway against Alex Vesia, when Willi Castro hit into a double play, scoring pinch-runner DaShawn Keirsey Jr. with the tying run. Bader followed by bouncing a pitch off home plate and over Vesia’s head, allowing Bader to reach safely and Lee to score the tie-breaker.
The game had been a tight pitcher’s duel between right-handers Chris Paddack and Tyler Glasnow, with each starter making only one mistake. Paddack’s came in the first inning, when he left an 0-2 curveball in the middle of the zone against Ohtani. The baseball rather predictably wound up near the top of the left-field bleachers, 441 feet away.
It was Ohtani’s 37th homer of the year, and the fifth consecutive game in which the three-time MVP has homered, the three against the Twins all traveling at least 400 feet.
Glasnow’s flaw came in the third inning, when Lewis extended his hot streak by belting a high fastball on a 3-1 count into the Dodgers’ bullpen. It’s the third home run Lewis hit on the road trip; he is 7-for-14 with six RBIs in his last four games.
Both pitchers shrugged off the mistake and enjoyed quick innings, Paddack allowing only four hits and no walks in his six innings, Glasnow striking out 12 (including Buxton three times) and giving up only three hits in his seven innings.
It was the 12th start by Paddack in which he allowed fewer than three runs; the Twins somehow are only 4-8 in those games.
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