Garcia, whose home run came on a sweeper that López left in the middle of the strike zone, led off the sixth with a single to right, and he moved to second base when shortstop Brooks Lee dropped a toss from second baseman Luke Keaschall, who had fielded Salvador Perez’s ground ball. But the two-on, no-outs challenge got a lot easier when catcher Jhonny Pereda, making his Twins debut, picked Garcia off second base with a perfect throw.
“What a great play. You shouldn’t be afraid to whip that ball around every once in awhile. It’s something he does well,” Baldelli said. “He’s very comfortable making throws. That was a big play. That resolved that inning for us, by coming up with a big play and a good throw.”
From there, López struck out Adam Frazier, ended the inning with a popup by Michael Massey, and walked to the dugout, where he received congratulations from his teammates.
“That just shows Pablo’s composure and his ability to work through things,” Baldelli said. “He really did the job and made some really good pitches. He was fired up being out there still in that spot and being able to work through it. That’s like the emotion of being back — it finally hit him in that moment and he kind of felt like himself again.”
“I want to shout out Pereda — he got on a flight at six in the morning after being told at one in the morning that he was going to come up here,” López said. “And actually, we are [two] of the few remaining Venezuelan summer league players. We played together against each other in the 2013 Venezuelan Summer League, which doesn’t exist anymore so there’s not a not a lot of us left. So we already had, like, a good communication, a good thing going.”
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