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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Minnesota 4, NY Yankees 1
When: 1:05 PM ET, Saturday, July 13, 2013
Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
Temperature: 76°
Umpires: Home - Victor Carapazza, 1B - Gary Cederstrom, 2B - Kerwin Danley, 3B - Lance Barksdale
Attendance: 40301


Twins 4, Yankees 1: Trevor Plouffe, Ryan Doumit and Pedro Florimon homered while Samuel Deduno matched a season high with seven strong innings as visiting Minnesota downed New York for the first time in six tries this season.

Deduno (5-4) yielded a run on six hits and three walks to snap the Twins’ six-game slide while Joe Mauer went 2-for-4 to improve his batting average to .415 over his last 16 road games. Casey Fien pitched a scoreless eighth and closer Glen Perkins worked around an infield single in the ninth for his 21st save.

Phil Hughes (4-9) tied a career high with 10 strikeouts, but took his fifth loss in six starts after allowing three home runs for the first time since July 27, 2012. The right-hander was charged with four runs on five hits and a walk in 7 1/3 innings.

Robinson Cano staked Hughes to a lead in the first inning when his line drive ricocheted off Deduno’s left heel and sailed into shallow center for a single to score Ichiro Suzuki from second base. Plouffe evened it an inning later as he turned on a 2-2 fastball and deposited it into the Twins’ bullpen.

The game remained at 1-1 until the seventh when Doumit – who entered Saturday 6-for-9 in his career against Hughes – continued his domination with a solo shot. Florimon capitalized on a bunt single by Aaron Hicks to lead off the eighth and lifted a deep fly ball off the facing of the second deck in right to give the Twins a three-run cushion.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Twins manager Ron Gardenhire was ejected in the eighth by home plate umpire Vic Carapazza for arguing a batter’s interference call on a grounder by Clete Thomas. Florimon followed with his homer six pitches later. … Hughes’ double-digit strikeout effort was his first since April 21, 2010 and the second of his career. However, he allowed two or more homers for the 24th time in his career – the most of any Yankees pitcher since 2007. … Minnesota is 8-31 in New York since 2002 and won for only the 24th time in its last 96 games (including playoffs) against the Yankees.


Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Minnesota   NY Yankees
Samuel Deduno Player Phil Hughes
Win W/L Loss
7.0 IP 7.1
3 Strikeouts 10
6 Hits 5
1.29 ERA 4.91
Hitting
Minnesota   NY Yankees
Joe Mauer Player Ichiro Suzuki
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 3
.500 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Minnesota 6 3 16 .188 8 11 4 2 0 0
NY Yankees 8 0 10 .242 15 3 1 3 0 0