{"id":1950672,"date":"2025-08-09T03:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1950672"},"modified":"2025-08-09T03:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:31:45","slug":"twins-power-past-royals-in-series-opener-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/twins-power-past-royals-in-series-opener-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins power past Royals in series opener &#8211; Field Level Media &#8211; Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ryan Jeffers went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and the Minnesota Twins pulled away for a 9-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Kody Clemens went 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs for Minnesota, which won the series opener. Luke Keaschall and Royce Lewis also drove in two runs apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Yastrzemski and Bobby Witt Jr. each homered for Kansas City. Vinnie Pasquantino and Kyle Isbel also drove in a run for the Royals, who lost for the third time in their past four games.<\/p>\n<p>Twins right-hander Joe Ryan (11-5) allowed one run on four hits in five innings. He walked none and struck out five.<\/p>\n<p>Royals right-hander Seth Lugo (8-6) surrendered seven runs on nine hits in four innings. He walked two and fanned one.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals started the scoring on the first at-bat of the game. Yastrzemski led off with a shot over the wall in right field for his 10th homer of the season and his second with Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins answered with three runs in the bottom of the first. Matt Wallner hit a solo home run, Keaschall ripped an RBI single and Lewis added an RBI groundout to shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>One inning later, Minnesota increased its lead to 5-1. Mickey Gasper walked to lead off the inning, advanced to second base on a single by Alan Roden and scored on a single by Jeffers. Two batters later, Keaschall drove in another run when he singled to center to bring home Roden.<\/p>\n<p>Clemens added a two-run homer in the fourth to increase the Twins\u2019 lead to 7-1, a pull shot that traveled 379 feet down the right field line.<\/p>\n<p>Witt cut the deficit to 7-2 with a mammoth home run in the sixth. The 25-year-old\u2019s 456-foot shot to left marked the 17th home run of the season and No. 99 of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins notched two more runs in the sixth. Jeffers hit an RBI single to right and Lewis followed with an RBI double to left.<\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino laced an RBI single to center in the eighth to cut the deficit to 9-3.<\/p>\n<p>Isbel capped the scoring with an RBI single to center in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__author--mobile\">\n<div class=\"article__author-profile\">\n<div class=\"author__avatar\">\n                                            \n                                        <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source fieldlevelmedia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Jeffers went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and the Minnesota Twins pulled away for a 9-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night in Minneapolis. Kody Clemens went 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs for Minnesota, which won the series opener. 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