Arizona 6, Minnesota 2
When: 8:10 PM ET, Monday, September 22, 2014
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature:
69°
Umpires:
Home -
Gary Cederstrom, 1B -
Lance Barksdale, 2B -
Jon Byrne, 3B -
Mark Ripperger
Attendance:
22571
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Diamondbacks 6, Twins 2: Mark Trumbo belted a two-run homer and Didi Gregorius recorded three doubles and an RBI as Arizona snapped a 10-game road losing streak.
A.J. Pollock also had a double among three hits and Ender Inciarte went 2-for-5 with an RBI for the Diamondbacks, who also ended a six-game slide overall by scoring five times in the fifth inning. Josh Collmenter (11-8) allowed two runs, five hits, one walk and struck out five over 6 1/3 frames to register his career high in victories.
Chris Herrmann and Josmil Pinto each knocked in a run for the Twins, who lost their third straight and dropped to 7-11 in interleague play. Ricky Nolasco (5-12) yielded five runs – all in the fifth – and nine hits over 4 2/3 innings to increase his winless streak to nine games.
Herrmann’s two-out RBI single opened the scoring in the third inning, but singles by Jake Lamb (two hits) and Chris Owings set the table for Arizona in the fifth. Gregorius doubled home a run, a groundout by Inciarte and a wild pitch brought in two more, and Trumbo capped the uprising with his two-run blast into the right-field seats.
Kurt Suzuki doubled to lead off the seventh for Minnesota and came home to trim the lead to 5-2 when Pinto chopped an RBI single to right as a pinch hitter. Aaron Hill doubled for his second hit of the contest in the eighth and scored on a ground out by Owings to restore a four-run lead for the Diamondbacks.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Inciarte extended his hitting streak to 11 games and is 16-for-45 during that span. … Minnesota All-Star 1B Joe Mauer and 2B Brian Dozier, who leads the Twins in homers with 21, were both rested. … The Diamondbacks have not committed an error in their last eight games.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Arizona
|
14 |
1 |
22 |
.359 |
17 |
9 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
Minnesota
|
7 |
0 |
8 |
.212 |
20 |
8 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
0 |