Twins snack: Byron Buxton does everything, Bailey Ober Grinds, Brooks Lee against Fastballs

Minneapolis – Byron Buxton on land, at sea or after air, Byron Buxton finds various options for significantly influencing the twins.

After three big days with the bat, Buxton used his bikes and an exact, strong arm to complete the twins on Thursday afternoon their second series. Buxton went twice, scored two runs, steel a base and played a critical defensive game when the twins defeated the Baltimore Orioles with 5: 2 and increased their best of the season to five in front of a announced audience from 17.410 on Target Field.

Brooks Lee probably delivered his biggest hit in a twin uniform, Bailey Ober out of five innings and the bullpen was delivered again when the team improved to 18-20. Ty France also had two RBI singles and ended with three of the twins’ five goals.

But it was Buxton’s pictures that dealt with the postgame clubhouse in Abuzz in the sixth inning with perfect home.

“It was another piece for (Buxton) role,” said Twin’s manager Rocco Baldelli. “I thought there was a chance, (but) you basically have to make a perfect throw. You have to make a perfect throw from 250 feet away as fast as you can. He is the man.

Runner pay attention: Buck has an incredible arm pic.twitter.com/bhgfunueqt

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Buxton, who once thrown 95 miles per hour in a State Championship game from Georgia High School in front of the then General Manager Terry Ryan, always has a large, exact arm. But over the years, opposing teams have recognized their wurdoms and gave them fewer opportunities.

Buxton Gunnar Henderson’s one-out single put on a jump with the twins that have had a run behind them and fired a one-hopper house in good time to nail Emmanuel Rivera on the plate. It was Buxon’s second outdoor field assistant of the season.

In the lower half of the inn, Trevor Larnach beat a Homer with a fixed solo for the twins. Larnach smiled when he was asked about Buxon’s contribution, who is on the fields of the Center Field Homering in three games in a row and drives into eight runs.

Buxton also went on a leadoff walk in the first inn, stole the second basis and achieved the first three singles of France.

“It’s pretty incredible,” said Larnach. “It’s fun to see, man. Thank God for being healthy and I pray, he stays healthy. … watch how he plays as he is.

With Harrison Bader on the second and one in eighth place, Buxton made his second game walk. One later injected Buxton with a slide in front of a relay home over the plate after Lee doubled the Bullpen wall.

Brooks like a brand new ball game !!! pic.twitter.com/khx45l0yBZ

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Buxton beats .270/.311/.533 and leads the twins with nine Homeruns and eight stolen bases in eight attempts.

“He’s pretty dynamic,” said Baldelli after the victory on Wednesday evening.

Here are several other twins to take away:

Brooks Lee celebrates his eighth inning double. (Matt Krohn / Imagn Images)

• As a former top 20 view, Lee Mettle showed by withdrawing a terrible game to offer his team heroic heroes with a late inning.

Lee stood a constant diet of curveballs from Baltimore starter Dean Kremer when he struck left -handed and fought on the plate on his first three trips. From Kremer’s 15 parking spaces to Lee to strike it three times were eight curve balls.

Lee also had a defensive decay when he played back on a hard hit in the third inning against Ryan O’Hearn’s bat. His mistake led Baltimore to achieve a 2-1 lead.

But Lee wrote the encouragement of Buxton, Harrison Bader and the injured teammate Matt Wallner that he helped him to concentrate. First he came back on the right track by starting a Slick 4-6-3 double game in the fourth inning.

Then, when he hit the reliever in the eighth reliever Gregory, he blew a 98 miles per hour Fastball to give the twins a lead of two runs.

“I felt terrible for the first eight innings,” said Lee. “But I picked it up and knew that I would do something special. … I have no choice. I have to stay concentrated, especially at this level. Every bat is new. I added that into it and that happened.”

Lee, to start the season, meet in 81 record appearances .253/.309/.387, well for 100 weighted runs that were created plus, which is the average of the league. The figure is a big leap from Lees Rookie season when it was finished with a 62 WRC+.

One reason for the jump is Lee’s improved health after having to deal with back and shoulder problems last season. The other is his renewed ability to crush four sea fasting.

Last season Lee ended with a minus 6 run value against fastballs and reached 0.193 with a percentage of 0.228 against four Seelam. On Thursday, Lee scored with a slugging percentage of 0.450 against heaters .450, good for a plus 4 run value.

“You have to experience these things,” said Baldelli. “You have to go out there and fight in a game in some bats and then find a way at the end of the game.”

• Two days after he found out that he would start because Joe Ryan was sick, lived on the side against Baltimore. When Out in the second inning, after giving in an RBI double to Rivera, the top of the eight consecutive battery with a runner on the third base withdrew (although one was a start-SAC fly).

After Rivera doubled to take second and third place to take the runners, Ober -Maverick Handley and Henderson struck the second.

Lee’s error in the third place made runners on the corners and Ryan Mountcastle hit a sack fly to bring Baltimore 2-1. The O threatened to increase the lead when Ramón Laaureano doubled to bring the runners to second and third place, but Heston Kjerstad and Coby Mayo excluded Upper.

After the right -handed O’Hearn had hit the fifth with a place in front of Mountcastles Double, Laurano pushed out, Kjerstad struck and Mayo rounded out.

Above allowed two runs (a deserved) and eight goals with a walk and a goal in five innings. He excluded six and lowered his ERA to 3.50, including only nine deserved runs in his last 41 Innings (1.98) since his first start.

“It was definitely a crisp,” said Ober. “I’m pretty tired right now … there was a lot of traffic and I had to make a few parking spaces if the boys were in the score and could do so.”

• A week after he was appointed the defensive player of the American League of the month, Bader saved another run with a walk and a stolen base with his glove.

When Mountcastle tore a double of 104.5 miles per hour into the left center, Bader took a deeper path to the ball, which made it possible for him to push and cut it before reaching the wall, which prevents O’Hearn from achieving the game. The next three batteries withdrew to keep the twins in one run.

“I cannot imagine a full -back that helps your team win games as ours do,” said Baldelli.

• Twin’s relievers come from the victory on Sunday against the Red Sox and have a 13 1/3 goalless Innings series, including 12 1/3 Shutout frames compared to Baltimore. The route has reduced the Bullpen era to 3.42. According to Fangraphs, the unit entered 1.8 war on Thursday, good for sixth place in the majors.

Jhoan Duran has converted four parades since Saturday and hit six over four goalless innings.

“We feel good,” said Duran. “At some point we are down.

Sweeeeeeeeep pic.twitter.com/42wo5alxwm

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• With a disease similar to that, who got the Bader out of the starting line -up for two days, Ryan’s next start was withdrawn to Saturday after being scratched on Thursday. The twins announced that Chris Paddack would throw the San Francisco Giants at the start of the series on Friday.

• With a left knee coloring since April 16, Wallner has been running every other day, but still has to run in the field. If everything goes well with his recovery, Wallner is probably a few weeks away from starting a rehab task.

(Photo by Byron Buxton: Ellen Schmidt / Getty Images)