Tampa Bay 6, Minnesota 0
When: 2:10 PM ET, Sunday, June 12, 2022
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature:
72°
Umpires:
Home -
Andy Fletcher, 1B -
Bill Welke, 2B -
Shane Livensparger, 3B -
Chris Segal
Attendance:
25350
By Field Level Media
Kevin Kiermaier went 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs and Jeffrey Springs pitched 5 1/3 shutout innings to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 6-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.
Randy Arozarena had an RBI double and reached base three times, stole two bases and scored twice. Ji-Man Choi extended his hitting streak to 11 games with two hits and an RBI for the Rays, who snapped a two-game losing streak.
Springs (3-2), making his seventh start since joining Tampa Bay's rotation on May 9, held the Twins to just two singles and two walks. He left after throwing a career-high 94 pitches, including 59 for strikes and 12 swing-and-misses.
Relievers Matt Wisler, Jalen Beeks, Calvin Faucher and Colin Poche combined to hold Minnesota -- which had scored 30 runs and clubbed 11 homers in its four previous games -- to just three more singles over the final 3 2/3 innings to complete the shutout.
Cole Sands (0-3), making his third major league start, suffered the loss after allowing five runs on five hits over 4 2/3 innings. He walked one, to go along with hitting Arozarena twice, and struck out five. Carlos Correa had two of Minnesota's five hits.
Tampa Bay took a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Brett Phillips led off with a walk, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored two outs later on Choi's infield single off the glove of Sands.
The Rays made it 3-0 in the fourth, scoring two runs on just one hit. Arozarena was hit on the right wrist leading off, stole second, advanced to third on a throwing error by Sands and then scored on a fielder's choice by Taylor Walls, just beating the throw home by first baseman Jose Miranda. Two outs later, Vidal Brujan drove in Walls with a sharp single to right.
Tampa Bay extended the lead to 5-0 in the fifth when Arozarena lined a two-out double over the head of left fielder Trevor Larnach, driving in Manuel Margot, who opened the inning with a double. Kiermaier then singled in Arozarena.
Kiermaier finished the scoring with his seventh homer of the season leading off the eighth against Tyler Duffey, a 390-foot drive into the right field plaza.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Tampa Bay |
|
Minnesota |
|
Jeffrey Springs
|
Player |
Cole Sands |
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
5.1 |
IP |
4.2 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
|
2 |
Hits |
5 |
|
0.00 |
ERA |
9.64 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Tampa Bay
|
7 |
1 |
13 |
.200 |
22 |
8 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
| Minnesota
|
5 |
0 |
5 |
.161 |
16 |
7 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
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