Major League Baseball
Atlanta 8, Minnesota 6
When: 7:40 PM ET, Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature: 75°
Umpires: Home - Clint Vondrak, 1B - Jeremie Rehak, 2B - Bruce Dreckman, 3B - Mark Wegner
Attendance: 20200

Ramon Laureano went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBIs and the Atlanta Braves outlasted the Minnesota Twins for an 8-6 win in 10 innings on Tuesday night in Minneapolis.

Michael Harris II went 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs for Atlanta, which won for the eighth time in the past 10 games. Marcell Ozuna finished 2-for-4 with a double and a pair of RBIs.

Trevor Larnach went 3-for-6 with a double and three RBIs to lead the Twins. Matt Wallner, Edouard Julien and Jose Miranda added one RBI apiece for Minnesota, which lost its third game in a row.

Braves right-hander Raisel Iglesias (4-1) pitched 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief for the win.

Twins reliever Jhoan Duran (6-8) took the loss, giving up four runs (three earned) on four hits in one-third of an inning.

The Braves broke the game open with four runs in the top of the 10th. Matt Olson drove in the first run with a fielder's-choice grounder to second, and Travis d'Arnaud made it 6-4 in the next at-bat with an RBI single to center.

Laureano capped the big inning with a double to center to drive in both Olson and d'Arnaud.

The Twins scored two runs in the bottom of the 10th on RBI singles by Miranda and Larnach.

Atlanta seized a 2-0 lead in the second. Olson led off with a double to left and, one out later, Harris followed with a two-run shot to right.

In the fifth, Atlanta scored two more runs to pull ahead 4-0. Ozuna stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs, and he ripped a two-run single to left.

Minnesota cut its deficit to 4-3 in the seventh.

Willi Castro hit a leadoff single, and Larnach drove him in moments later with a double to left. Wallner then hit a single to right to drive in Larnach, and Julien doubled to right in the next at-bat to drive in Wallner from first.

The Twins made it 4-4 in the eighth. Castro hit a two-out double, and Larnach delivered again in the next at-bat with an RBI single to even the score.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Atlanta   Minnesota
Spencer Schwellenbach Player Simeon Woods-Richardson
No Decision W/L No Decision
4.2 IP 4.2
8 Strikeouts 3
5 Hits 3
0.00 ERA 7.71
Hitting
Atlanta   Minnesota
Ramon Laureano Player Willi Castro
3 Hits 3
2 RBI 0
0 HR 0
4 TB 4
.600 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Atlanta 11 1 17 .268 22 6 8 5 2 0
Minnesota 14 0 20 .318 22 14 6 4 0 0