Matt Wallner doubled, homered and drove in three runs and the Minnesota Twins pulled away for a 10-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night in Minneapolis.
Kyle Farmer finished 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs for Minnesota (77-68), which snapped a four-game losing streak. Carlos Santana added a two-run homer, and Ryan Jeffers went 1-for-3 with two RBIs.
Zach Neto went 2-for-3 with a double, a homer and three RBIs to lead the Angels (60-85). Taylor Ward finished 1-for-3 with an RBI.
Twins right-hander Pablo Lopez (15-8) won his fourth start in a row.
Lopez allowed four runs, all of which were unearned, on eight hits in seven innings. He walked one and fanned 10, matching his second-highest strikeout total of the season.
Angels right-hander Griffin Canning (5-13) gave up 10 runs (nine earned) on nine hits in 5 2/3 innings. He walked three and fanned four.
The Twins broke out for four runs in the second. Jeffers opened the scoring with an RBI single to center, and Farmer followed two batters later with a three-run shot to left.
The blast marked Farmer’s fifth homer of the season and his second in as many games. He has gotten at least one hit in six of his past seven contests.
Wallner led off the third with a 444-foot homer to right to make it 5-0. It was his 12th homer of the year.
Minnesota made it 6-0 later in the third. Trevor Larnach scored on a sacrifice fly by Jeffers.
Los Angeles cut its deficit to 6-4 in the fifth. Ward ripped an RBI single to right, and Neto followed in the next at-bat with a three-run shot to center.
Neto’s 428-foot blast marked his 21st homer of 2024, which is one shy of Ward’s 22 for the team lead.
In the bottom of the fifth, Santana hit a two-run homer to right-center field to boost the Twins’ lead to 8-4. It was his 21st homer this season.
Wallner added a two-run double in the sixth to put the Twins on top 10-4.
Jordyn Adams capped the scoring with an RBI single in the ninth.
–Field Level Media
