Jerry McDonald has been with the Bay Area News Group for more than 30 years, with a heavy concentration of NFL football since the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995. His all-time favorite athlete is a right-handed pitcher at Division III Linfield College in Oregon.
Tyler Soderstrom celebrates with Miguel Andujar after a second-inning two-run home run for the Athletics against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.Joe Ryan became the latest pitcher to lock up one of the most offensively challenged teams in the major leagues Thursday and Carlos Correa continued his hot hitting as the Minnesota Twins beat the Athletics 6-2 at Target Field.
Correa essentially put the game away for Minnesota with a two-run home run against Sean Newcomb in the bottom of the seventh inning and was 3-for-4. It was Correa’s sixth home run of the season. Minnesota made Medina work even if they weren’t drawing walks, as he threw 102 pitches, 67 of them strikes, before giving way to Vinny Nittoli in the sixth.
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