Yesterday against the Phillies, the Twins scored four in the first, failed to add on in the middle innings, and ended up losing the game after the bullpen blew the lead. Tonight, the Twins scored four in the first, failed to add on in the middle innings, but won the game when the bullpen was able to preserve the lead. Though, they were one nice Kody Clemens play away from this being almost exactly the same as yesterday.
Let's start at the beginning.
After a short rain delay, the Twins came into this outing with a clear strategy against old friend Martín Perez: don't swing at anything low if you don't have two strikes, and it worked very well as Perez couldn't find the bottom of the zone early. The first six Minnesota batters reached to give the Twins an early advantage.
Luke Keaschall led off the bottom of the first with a hustle double, then Perez walked both Byron Buxton and Ryan Jeffers to load the bases for the middle of the lineup. Josh Bell then hit a two run double to give the Twins an early lead, but however you're picturing this Bell double came to pass, you're almost definitely wrong.
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