GAME 48 of 60
IMPACT PLAYER
Ryan Jeffers, Twins
Put the Twins in front and knocked Triston McKenzie out of the game with a 411-foot home run in the fifth.
BY THE NUMBERS
11 Twins’ home runs this weekend, against a Cleveland staff that had not allowed more than seven in any series.
8 Strikeouts by Michael Pineda, the most he’s ever recorded in his career without completing five innings.
2 Consecutive games with home runs by the Twins’ eighth- and ninth-place hitters.
PHIL MILLER
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