He said several other major leaguers were at the same resort, including Mike Trout. Gallo rejoined the Twins in good spirits after a few days by the pool. “I just went up there and (thought) ‘Well, I’m going to try to get a swing off this time and see what happens.’ I just happened to hit it good.” “Especially when you haven’t played in a few days, too, 100 looks like 110,” Gallo said. Batting with one out after Solano opened the inning with a double, Gallo made sure to get his foot down quickly and clobbered a 100-mph fastball to deep right. “Just knowing that, I didn’t say anything to get thrown out.”Īfter Correa’s 17th double play ended an eighth inning rally, Gallo received another shot in the ninth against Fujinami. “I knew the situation, I couldn’t say anything crazy because it was a key part of the game and we really didn’t have a lot of guys left,” Gallo said. With Miranda expected to go on the injured list on Saturday, Gallo knew he couldn’t afford to be ejected, a task he left up to hitting coach David Popkins, who gave Lentz an earful. While Gallo stopped to question the call, he walked away and avoided an ejection for the short-handed Twins, who lost Jose Miranda to a sore shoulder before the game. When he took what appeared to be a ball on a 3-2 pitch in the sixth inning, Correa voiced his frustration over the missed call to plate umpire Nic Lentz.Īn inning later, Gallo, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter, questioned Lentz’s zone after taking a borderline 3-2 pitch for a called strike. Some of the frustration boiled over in the later innings as the stranded runners piled up. Edouard Julien’s pinch-hit double in the fourth tied the game at 3.Īfter that, the Twins left the bases loaded in the fifth and sixth innings, including Buxton taking three straight strikes to end the sixth. Kyle Farmer followed with a one-out RBI triple to give the Twins a 2-0 lead but he was left stranded at third.īut then the Twins struggled to break through despite a plethora of base runners and Oakland scored three times off Kenta Maeda to take the lead. Correa doubled on the first pitch of the game, moved to third on Donovan Solano’s single and scored on Buxton’s sacrifice fly. “We’re going to go out there on a 70-game sprint and finish strong and hopefully be at the top when the season’s over.” 700 OPS, called the time off a “great reset.” Despite their struggles, including an embarrassing series sweep at home by Baltimore to end the first half, Correa entered Friday optimistic because the Twins sat only a half-game behind Cleveland. JOEY FREAKIN' GALLO □ #MNTwins | #MLB /nKVDQHkAeJĬorrea, who entered the break with a league-leading 16 double plays grounded into and a. I ain’t heard nobody else talking about the past four days, either. … The only thing that matters is what lies ahead. “Treat every game like it’s a playoff game. With the easiest remaining schedule in baseball, the Twins talked before Friday’s opener about only looking ahead for the final 71 games. Seemingly everyone from the front office to the coaching staff to the team’s stars have come under fire for a struggling offense which has prevented the Twins from pulling away from Cleveland in the American League Central. While Gallo was sitting poolside at a Laguna Beach, Calif., resort, Carlos Correa and Byron Buxton spent time with their young families in Minnesota in an attempt to recharge after a draining first half that was full of frustration.ĭespite boasting one of the organization’s best pitching staffs in recent memory, the Twins had to fight hard to stay afloat even though they play in one of the worst divisions in baseball history. The Twins did their best to recover during the four-day hiatus. It’s about winning games and making the playoffs and that’s it.” At the end of the day, that’s all it’s really about. … We won today and it’s a good clubhouse right now because we won. “But once I saw it staying true I knew it was going to go. “I wasn’t sure how true I hit it,” Gallo said. 500 mark and move back into first place in the American League Central. Two innings after he struck out on a close call, Gallo’s homer off Shintaro Fujinami helped the Twins - who are expected to recall Matt Wallner on Saturday - return to the. Earlier in the afternoon, Gallo joked he thought about not returning after spending the four-day break at a lavish Southern California beach resort.
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