{"id":83589,"date":"2025-08-26T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=83589"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:43:45","slug":"minnesota-twins-rocked-in-1st-inning-in-10-4-loss-to-toronto-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=83589","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins rocked in 1st inning in 10-4 loss to Toronto Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/26\/55d38671-79b0-403b-9670-8004e1f0cf98\/thumbnail\/1280x720\/8fffec3606cbfea3f72d91048e6b5d21\/gettyimages-2231386859.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Max Scherzer pitched six innings and won his third straight start, Alejandro Kirk and Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez homered and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Minnesota Twins 10-4 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added a two-run single as the AL East-leading Blue Jays won for the 30th time in 39 home games.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer (5-2) allowed four runs and four hits, including two home runs. He struck out five and walked one. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is 10-2 in 19 career starts against the Twins.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s Matt Wallner homered twice off Scherzer, his 18th and 19th, but the Twins lost for the sixth time in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Twins starter Joe Ryan gave up four runs and four hits in a shaky first inning. Bo Bichette hit an RBI single and a second run scored on Daulton Varsho&#8217;s sacrifice fly before Kirk hit a two-run homer, his 11th.<\/p>\n<p>Gim\u00e9nez extended the lead with a 422-foot drive on Ryan&#8217;s first pitch of the second. The homer was Gim\u00e9nez&#8217;s sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan (12-7) matched a season high by allowing six runs and seven hits in five innings. He lost consecutive starts for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>Wallner hit a solo shot in the fourth and a two-run drive in the sixth. It was his first multi-homer game of the season and the second of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero started at designated hitter, his first start since leaving an Aug. 18 game at Pittsburgh because of a sore left hamstring. Guerrero popped out as a pinch hitter in Sunday&#8217;s loss at Miami.<\/p>\n<h2>Key moment<\/h2>\n<p>Kirk&#8217;s two-out, first-pitch homer in the first capped a four-run inning.<\/p>\n<h2>Key stat<\/h2>\n<p>The Blue Jays are 57-3 when they score five or more runs.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>Blue Jays RHP Chris Bassitt (11-7, 4.18 ERA) is scheduled to start Tuesday against Twins RHP Bailey Ober (4-7, 5.05).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Scherzer pitched six innings and won his third straight start, Alejandro Kirk and Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez homered and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Minnesota Twins 10-4&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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