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04/30 21:34 CDT Buxton hits 3rd homer in 4 games, Jeffers also goes deep as
Twins top Blue Jays 7-1
Buxton hits 3rd homer in 4 games, Jeffers also goes deep as Twins top Blue Jays
7-1
By TYLER MASON
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) --- Byron Buxton homered for the third time in four games and
Ryan Jeffers hit a go-ahead, two-run drive that led the Minnesota Twins over
the Toronto Blue Jays 7- 1 on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game
series.
Daulton Varsho homered off Bailey Ober (3-1) in the fourth and Jeffers put the
Twins ahead to stay at 2-1 in the bottom half against Kevin Gausman (2-2).
Buxton homered two innings later, his team-leading eighth, and Austin Martin
added an RBI single later in the sixth. Buxton was 3 for 4 in his third
three-hit game this season.
Minnesota won for the second time in its last nine games and the third time in
14.
Ober allowed four hits in six-plus innings. Anthony Banda, Andrew Morris and
Justin Topa combined for two-hit relief for a Twins bullpen that entered with a
5.30 ERA, fourth-worst among big league bullpens.
Gausman allowed four runs, four hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings. The four
earned runs off him were a season high.
Throwing errors by third baseman Kazuma Okamoto and shortstop Andrs Gimnez
contributed to a pair of unearned runs in a three-run eighth.
Up next Toronto LHP Patrick Corbin (0-0, 3.72 ERA) starts Friday against Minnesota RHP Simeon Woods Richardson (0-4, 6.30). ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb
Up next Toronto LHP Patrick Corbin (0-0, 3.72 ERA) starts Friday against Minnesota RHP Simeon Woods Richardson (0-4, 6.30). ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb
