The Yankees allowed at least 11 runs in a loss to the Twins for the first time since July 14, 1995.
Somewhere on Thursday night, Joe Mauer, Brian Dozier and Justin Morneau had to be raising a toast, their Minnesota heirs doing what they failed to do so often:The Twins crushed three straight home runs, knocked Jhony Brito out of the game in the first inning and threw haymaker after haymaker against a club that never got off the mat in an 11-2 Yankees loss in front of 39,024 unhappy customers in The Bronx.
The Yankees allowed at least 11 runs in a loss to the Twins for the first time since July 14, 1995, when Brad Radke beat Sterling Hitchcock.in an apparent effort to exorcise a few decades worth of demons. Brito’s 34th and final pitch was a down-the-middle fastball to No. 9 hitter Michael A. Taylor, who blasted his first of two home runs to put the Yankees in a 7-0 hole before many fans had reached their seats.
The Yankees’ bullpen calmed down and allowed just two more runs the rest of the way, but everything that followed the top of the first — including a scoreless ninth inning from shortstop-turned-center-fielder-turned-pitcher Isiah Kiner-Falefa — was elementary. Thursday, there was no evident drop-off in velocity or movement, but he had little command. Even one of the two outs the righty recorded — a sacrifice fly from Trevor Larnach — was sent 364 feet away, dying in Aaron Judge’s glove in deep center. Brito continually placed it on a tee, and the Twins took an ERA that had been 0.90 and pumped it up to 6.75.
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