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05/05 21:10 CDT Buxton hits 3-run HR, Bradley has 8 strikeouts to help Twins
beat Nationals 11-3
Buxton hits 3-run HR, Bradley has 8 strikeouts to help Twins beat Nationals 11-3
WASHINGTON (AP) --- Byron Buxton hit a three-run homer, Brooks Lee drove in
three runs and Taj Bradley struck out eight in six solid innings to help the
Minnesota Twins beat the Washington Nationals 11-3 on Tuesday night.
Buxton's homer, his sixth in the last eight games and 11th this season, made it
10-3 in the eighth. Lee was 3 for 5 with two doubles and Trevor Larnach added
two hits and two RBIs.
Bradley (4-1) gave up two runs and four hits and walked two.
Cade Cavalli (1-2) gave up six runs --- three earned --- in four innings for
the Nationals, who are 4-13 at home this season.
Kody Clemens was hit by a pitch with two outs in the second and Luke Keaschall
followed with an infield single before Lee doubled down right field line to
give the Twins a 2-1 lead.
Austin Martin singled before Clemens and Keaschall each walked to load the
bases with no outs in the fourth. Martin scored when Lee reached on a fielding
error by Cavalli and a sacrifice fly by Royce Lewis drove in Clemens before
Larnach's two-run double made it 6-1.
Daylen Lile walked, moved to third when Curtis Mead doubled and scored when CJ
Abrams reached on a fielder's choice to give the Nationals a 1-0 lead in the
first inning.
Mead's double in the fifth drove in Lile.
Mead and Jos Tena each went 2 for 4 with a double.
Josh Bell singled to drive in Ryan Jeffers, who led off the seventh with a
double, to make it 7-2.
James Wood hit a liner off the top of the wall in left for a double that drove
in Tena in the bottom of the inning and cut the Nationals' deficit to 7-3.
Up next
Minnesota RHP Bailey Ober (3-1, 3.55 ERA) starts Wednesday against Miles
Mikolas (0-3, 8.23) in the second of a three-game series.
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