{"id":2005010,"date":"2025-09-08T00:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2005010"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:49:49","slug":"ober-buxton-clemens-leads-twins-to-5-1-win-drop-royals-2-back-for-last-al-wild-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ober-buxton-clemens-leads-twins-to-5-1-win-drop-royals-2-back-for-last-al-wild-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Ober, Buxton, Clemens leads Twins to 5-1 win, drop Royals 2 back for last AL wild card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"storyContent\">\n<p>Byron Buxton and Kody Clemens homered and the Minnesota Twins beat Kansas City 5-1 on Sunday to drop the Royals two games back for the last AL wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Buxton led off the game against Michael Lorenzen (5-10) with his 30th homer, extending his career high. He was hit by a 91.8 mph sinker in the fifth inning and was replaced for the bottom of the sixth because of what the Twins said was a bruised left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Clemens hit his 16th homer in the fourth, a 451-drive that gave Minnesota a 3-0 lead. Minnesota padded its advantage in the fourth with a double steal, with Royce Lewis on first and Luke Keaschall on third.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City (73-69) fell two games behind Seattle (75-68) for the third AL wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey Ober (5-7) gave up one run and four hits in 5 1\/3 innings,<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzen allowed four runs and five hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City scored on Vinnie Pasquantino\u2019s RBI single in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key moment<\/strong><br \/>Kansas City had the potential tying run at the plate with one out in the eighth before Kody Funderburk struck out Pasquantino and Justin Topa retired Salvador Perez on a groundout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key stat<\/strong><br \/>Buxton has 17 leadoff homers, including eight this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up next<\/strong><br \/>Twins: RHP Simeon Woods Richardson (5-4, 4.53 ERA) starts Monday against the Los Angeles Angels and RHP Caden Dana (0-0, 4.91).<\/p>\n<p>Royals: RHP Ryan Bergert (2-1, 2.61) will be on the mound Monday for the start of a four-game series at Cleveland, which starts RHP Slade Cecconi (5-6, 4.78)<\/p>\n<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumb\">\n<ol class=\"breadcrumb\"><strong>For Related Stories:<\/strong>\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/minnesota-twins\/\" rel=\"tag\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/twins\/\" rel=\"tag\">Twins<\/a><\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<p>        <!-- RevContent Tag --><\/p>\n<p>        <!-- End Tags - RevContent -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/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 kstp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Buxton and Kody Clemens homered and the Minnesota Twins beat Kansas City 5-1 on Sunday to drop the Royals two games back for the last AL wild card. Buxton led off the game against Michael Lorenzen (5-10) with his 30th homer, extending his career high. 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