Ryan pitched seven strong innings and Correa drove in three runs in the Twins' victory.
Joe Ryan pitched seven strong innings and Carlos Correa had another dominant day at the plate as the Twins beat the Oakland Athletics 6-2 in their series opener in front of an announced crowd of 23,229 on "Prince Night" Thursday night at Target Field in downtown Minneapolis.
With the Twins leading 4-2 in the seventh inning, Correa hit a two-run homer 394 feet into left field to give Minnesota a couple insurance runs and put a stamp on another dominant day.Correa followed up with a performance in which he went 3 for 4 with the homer, three RBIs and two runs scored.Ryan, meanwhile, had only one blemish during his seven-inning start.
Ryan only allowed two more hits the rest of the way, holding the Athletics to the two runs off three hits in all while fanning five across his seven innings of work as he picked up the win. Luis Medina took the loss after allowing four runs off eight hits while fanning three across his five innings for the A's.
The Twins knotted the game right back up in the bottom of the second inning. Max Kepler and Correa hit back-to-back singles to open the frame, and after Carlos Santana flied out, Byron Buxton hit a single to center field that scored both Kepler and Correa to tie it at 2-2 apiece.Correa then drove in the go-ahead run his next at-bat during the third inning, hitting a single to right field that scored Trevor Larnach, who singled a couple at-bats earlier in the frame, making it 3-2.
The Twins added another run onto their lead during the fourth inning when Buxton and Ryan Jeffers opened the frame with back-to-back singles, and Austin Martin — called back up on Thursday after a stint with the Triple-A St. Paul Saints — brought in Buxton with an RBI fielder's choice.Griffin Jax pitched a scoreless eighth inning to preserve the Twins' advantage, and Jorge Alcala sent the Athletics down in order in the ninth inning to close out the game for the Twins.
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