{"id":2447382,"date":"2026-06-06T04:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2447382"},"modified":"2026-06-06T04:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:09:40","slug":"zebby-matthews-throws-quality-start-as-twins-beat-royals-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zebby-matthews-throws-quality-start-as-twins-beat-royals-twin-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebby Matthews throws quality start as Twins beat Royals \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Final<\/h4>\n<p>Twins 5, Royals 3<\/p>\n<h4>Starting pitcher performance<\/h4>\n<p>With a bullpen that has been heavily taxed in recent days \u2014 the Twins employed a bullpen day on Thursday and have seen a number of shorter starts in the past week or so \u2014 \u00a0seven innings from Zebby Matthews was badly needed.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews wasn\u2019t quite as sharp as normal \u2014 he did issue four walks \u2014 but settled in nicely after a first inning in which he gave up a pair of runs. Matthews walked Bobby Witt Jr. and then allowed a pair of doubles, producing the two runs. He would only give up three more hits over the rest of his outing.<\/p>\n<p>He has now thrown four quality starts in five outings since returning to the majors in May.<\/p>\n<h4>Big plays<\/h4>\n<p>Matthews can, in part, thank right fielder Austin Martin for his final line.<\/p>\n<p>Martin made his impact felt with his arm on Friday, fielding a well-struck single by Michael Massey and sending it back home in time to nab Jac Caglianone, who was trying to score for the second out in the fourth inning. A few innings later, Martin did it again, throwing Isaac Collins out at the plate to end the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>He also doubled in the win.<\/p>\n<h4>Key moment<\/h4>\n<p>The Twins, trailing by a run entering the sixth inning, finally broke through off Royals starter Michael Wacha in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks Lee led off the inning with his ninth home run of the inning. Kody Clemens and Josh Bell\u2019s back-to-back doubles produced another run and Bell scored on Orlando Arcia\u2019s single. Arcia came around to score the team\u2019s fourth run of the inning on a wild pitch.<\/p>\n<h4>Injury update<\/h4>\n<p>Byron Buxton leapt up as he reached his glove out for Carter Jensen\u2019s fly ball to deep center. He came down with the ball safely in his glove, but momentum carried him a couple steps forward and he slammed into the center field wall, winding up on his back.<\/p>\n<p>After a visit from Derek Shelton head athletic trainer Nick Paparesta, Buxton remained in the game, catching another fly ball that inning. But he was pinch hit for in the bottom of the frame and the Twins announced a right shoulder contusion for the center fielder.<\/p>\n<h4>Up next<\/h4>\n<p>Joe Ryan (4-3, 3.20) will take the ball for the third game of the series against the Royals, set to begin at 1:10 p.m. He will be opposed by Luinder Avila (1-2, 4.44 ERA).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\"\/><\/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 www.twincities.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Twins 5, Royals 3 Starting pitcher performance With a bullpen that has been heavily taxed in recent days \u2014 the Twins employed a bullpen day on Thursday and have seen a number of shorter starts in the past week or so \u2014 \u00a0seven innings from Zebby Matthews was badly needed. Matthews wasn\u2019t quite as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2447383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[311159,327041],"class_list":["post-2447382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota-twins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Zebby-Matthews-throws-quality-start-as-Twins-beat-Royals-\u2013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447384,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447382\/revisions\/2447384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}