Trevor Larnach, Byron Buxton team for 7 RBIs as Twins drub Angels

Trevor Larnach, Byron Buxton team for 7 RBIs as Twins drub Angels

Trevor Larnach launched a three-run homer during Minnesota's six-run fourth inning, and the Twins opened a three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels with an 11-4 win on Friday night in Minneapolis. Byron Buxton homered, tripled and drove in three…

Minnesota 11, L.A. Angels 4

Twins rout Angels, lose Luke Keaschall to forearm fracture

Pablo López returned on Friday night and so, too, did the Twins’ offense after getting blanked in a rain-shortened game a day earlier. There was a lot to like for the Twins on Friday night in a game in which they scored a season-high 11 runs in their 11-4 victory over the Los Angeles at Target Field. But the excitement of the win was dulled by the news that accompanied it: rookie Luke Keaschall has a nondisplaced fracture of his right forearm. K…

Control problems sink Kyle Hendricks in Angels’ blowout loss to Twins

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins didn’t even need a hit to score their first run against Kyle Hendricks. It was a sign of things to come. The Angels right-hander walked five batters and hit two, a bout of uncharacteristic wildness that led to him allowing seven runs in the Angels’ 11-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Friday night. It was the first time in Hendricks’ career that he had ever walked five batters. His career average of 2.1 walks per…

Byron Buxton, Twins crush Angels as Pablo Lopez returns to mound

Lopez was solid and the Twins' offense broke out for a season-high 11 runs on Friday night.

VEA / Juan Cermeño On Friday, April 25, there was the return of pitcher Pablo López (G, 2-1) after recovering from an injury and achieving his second win of the season, in the game that Mellizos of Minnesota won 11 runs to 4 against Angelinos of Los Angeles, corresponding to the day of baseball of Major Leagues. López opened and held five innings, tolerated five unstoppable, two runs, gave pair of bases by balls and prescribed half a dozen punch…