{"id":42016,"date":"2025-07-06T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42016\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T00:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:11:08","slug":"twins-beat-rays-on-walk-off-bunt-by-brooks-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42016\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins beat Rays on walk-off bunt by Brooks Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Twins utility man Brooks Lee supplied a walk-off hit against the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday. It left his bat at 38 mph.<\/p>\n<p>With the game tied 5-5 and no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, Lee squared up to squeeze in Byron Buxton from third base. Rays first baseman Yandy D\u00edaz attempted to make a play, but the ball bounced off his glove and left the final play of the game as a bunt hit.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Twins celebrated the walk-off all the same:<\/p>\n<p>It took a comeback just for the Twins to be in that position in the ninth, as they entered the bottom of the sixth inning down 5-1. A four-run rally tied the game, capped off by Kody Clemens&#8217; 10th homer of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Lee didn&#8217;t enter the game until the seventh inning, pinch-hitting for Trevor Larnach against the left-handed Mason Montgomery. He flied out on his first at-bat, but made good with the same platoon advantage in the ninth. It&#8217;s his second walk-off hit of the year, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/twins\/video\/brooks-lee-singles-on-a-ground-ball-to-center-fielder-drew-waters-carlos-correa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:his first being a more traditional single on May 24;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">his first being a more traditional single on May 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the Twins&#8217; second straight game with a walk-off, having won on a Harrison Bader solo shot on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The win improves the Twins&#8217; record to 43-46, still good for second place in the AL Central. They remain 3.5 games back for the third wild-card spot in the AL, currently held by the Seattle Mariners, and 12 games back from the league-best Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins utility man Brooks Lee supplied a walk-off hit against the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[33086,4248,1885,33089,33091,33090,33087,1287,1266,1288,62,1289,33088,67,132,68,33092],"class_list":{"0":"post-42016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brooks-lee","9":"tag-byron-buxton","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-harrison-bader","12":"tag-kody-clemens","13":"tag-mason-montgomery","14":"tag-matt-krohn","15":"tag-minnesota-twins","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-seattle-mariners","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","20":"tag-trevor-larnach","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-yandy-diaz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114803394959738700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}