The Twins rallied to beat the slumping Texas Rangers 5-2 on Saturday night.
, and another Minnesota run scored on the play due to a throwing error as the Twins rallied to beat the slumping Texas Rangers 5-2 on Saturday night.
Trevor Larnach hit his career-best 12th homer of the season and the Twins added a run in the ninth on Kyle Farmer’s sacrifice fly that scored Carlos Santana, who drew the game’s only walk.Ronny Henriquez pitched two scoreless innings in relief of David Festa and earned his first big-league victory. With closer Jhoan Duran having pitched the previous three days, Cole Sands worked a perfect ninth inning for his fourth save in seven chances.
Carson Kelly drove in both runs for Texas with a single in the second inning and a double in the fourth.The defending World Series champion Rangers are a season-worst 12 games under .500 at 56-68 and have lost 16 of 21 since a five-game winning streak in late July.“Just a couple balls that were left up I guess with two strikes,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “You have to give them credit. They did a good piece of hitting. And then we broke down defensively there. That didn’t help matters.
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