Minneapolis (AP)-Brooks Lee rode on Saturday in the game-ending run with a bump in the ninth inning when the Minnesota Twins defeated the Tampa Bay Rays with 6-5.
Garrett Clevenger (0-4) walked off Byron Buxton to start the ninth. Willi Castro followed with a single that brought Buxton to the third.
Lee then hit the first throw on the first basic line. First Honkman Yandy Díaz had no play on Buxton, so he let the ball go and he rolled over the bag for a hit.
Danny Jansen hit, doubled and tripled to Tampa Bay, while Ryan Jeffers had three hits for the twins, who ran for the second consecutive day of the rays.
Jhoan Duran (5-3) threw two scoreless innings into relief.
Rays -Starter Taj Bradley worked from a number of early problems and then drove through the middle innings and at a certain point eliminated 13 of 14 batters. But he gave up a few singles in the sixth and the rays went to their bullpen.
Kevin Kelly, who allowed the Walk-Off Homer of Harrison Bader on Friday, admitted an RBI single to Lewis. Kody Clemens then hit a 0-1 field to deep left to his 10th Homer to bind the game on 5-All-All.
In the second inning, the twins had not loaded the bases full of anyone and a run in it. But Bradley hit Clemens and got one on the plate on a dribbler to the hill. Buxton then missed a Grand Slam with centimeters and flew to the wall in the left field to end the inning.
Brandon Lowe expanded his battle line to 20 games with a single in the fifth inning. That connects the Rays -Franchise record, last season, determined by Díaz.
RHP Drew Rasmussen (7-5, 2.78 ERA) of the Rays will be confronted with a twin RHP Joe Ryan (8-4, 2.75) in Sunday's series.
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