Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Minnesota 4, Tampa Bay 2
When: 1:40 PM ET, Sunday, April 17, 2011
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Jeff Kellogg, 1B - Eric Cooper, 2B - Mark Carlson, 3B - Tim Timmons
Attendance: 22426

Steve Holm and Jason Repko, the bottom two in the batting order, each had their first two hits of the season as the visiting Minnesota Twins snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday afternoon.

Holm had a single and scored on an error, Repko hit an RBI single and scored, and Matt Tolbert capped a three-run rally in the fifth inning with an RBI triple as the Twins (5-10) erased a 2-1 Tampa Bay lead. Jason Kubel also hit his second home run in two days in the fourth inning for Minnesota.

Brian Duensing (1-0) pitched seven innings for the win, allowing two runs on seven hits. Matt Capps earned his first save in place of Joe Nathan, pitching a scoreless ninth.

Sam Fuld had two hits for the Rays (6-9), whose five-game win streak ended.

Tampa Bay starter Jeremy Hellickson (1-2) gave up six hits and four runs in seven innings.

Johnny Damon left the game in the fifth inning with a bruised left ring finger. He was injured in the bottom of the third, when a pitch hit both his bat and the finger on a bunt attempt. Damon stayed in to hit an RBI single, giving the Rays a 1-0 lead, but was eventually replaced by Matt Joyce in left field.


Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Minnesota   Tampa Bay
Brian Duensing Player Jeremy Hellickson
Win W/L Loss
7.0 IP 7.0
5 Strikeouts 3
7 Hits 6
2.57 ERA 5.14
Hitting
Minnesota   Tampa Bay
Steve Holm Player Sam Fuld
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 2
.500 Avg .400
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Minnesota 9 1 17 .250 13 4 3 2 1 0
Tampa Bay 8 0 11 .250 13 5 2 3 0 1