July 10, 2022 - Game 83
W - Dylan Bundy (5-4)
L - Brock Burke (4-2)
S- Tyler Duffey (2)
HR: TEX: Seager (19), MIN: Buxton(23), Jeffers (7)
Time of Game: 3:12
Game Recap
The Rangers and Twins concluded a three-game series on Sunday. Texas was going for their second three or more game sweep of the season (fourth overall). Instead, Texas turned to Dane Dunning to try to complete the sweep after a good and bad start against the Orioles. On the other side, the Twins sent out Dylan Bundy, making his seventh career start against the Rangers in four years. Late in the game, the club announced Martín Pérez's selection to the All-Star team. "It was good to know that I'm going to represent the Texas Rangers in the All-Star game," Martín said.
Byron Buxton gave the Twins some liftoff to begin the game with a solo home run in the first. In the second, Minnesota strung four straight hits off Dane Dunning, scoring two runs. Dunning forced a double play but walked another batter. After a mound visit, he struck out Buxton to end any additional threat. The Rangers answered right away in the bottom half of the second. With the bases loaded and two outs, Josh Smith unloaded the bags with a three-run double. It tied the game up at three. However, the Twins took the lead in an inning with four baserunners and no hits. Dunning walked three and hit Ryan Jeffers with the bases loaded to put Minnesota up 4-3. The Rangers came back in the fifth to tie the game up. After Smith walked and Marcus Semien doubled, Corey Seager hit a sacrifice fly to even the game at four.
After Texas tied the game up in the fifth, Ryan Jeffers homered to put the Twins up 5-4 in the sixth. It was a line shot just over the wall in right field. Minnesota picked up another run on an errant throw to first try to pick off Alex Kirilloff at first base. Jorge Polanco scored, extending the Twins' lead to 6-4. Some luck hit Corey Seager's side in the eighth. A ball that Gilberto Celestino had in his glove in left field popped out of his glove and over the wall for a Seager home run. It cut the Twins lead to 6-5. In the final at-bat Josh Smith battled in an eight pitch at-bat with Jonah Heim at first. Smith lined out to end the game. "[Josh has] a little old school in him as far as the grittiness of the at-bat, but he's got the new school approach where he doesn't chase," Chris Woodward said about Josh Smith. "He's an old new school kind of player, he's tough, fights, not afraid to get jammed, he doesn't expand the strike zone which is unique. The at-bat quality, the path, the swing. He gets himself a chance on a lot of different pitches."
Sunday wasn't Dunning's day. His command was all over the place, and the Twins took advantage of baseballs in the zone. After 2.1 innings, Dane departed, allowing four runs, six hits, four walks, two strikeouts, and a hit batter (nearly two). "[I] just didn't throw strikes. I walked three batters and pegged a guy. [It] was a bad performance from the beginning," Dane Dunning said. "I felt fine going up to the game [and] in the game. [They] took a lot of good takes on breaking balls and changeups below the zone. [I] just have to be better."
Matt Moore entered to clean up the third inning and got out of a bases-loaded jam. Moore also pitched a scoreless fourth inning. Brock Burke allowed a homer in the sixth inning to Jeffers, but that was the only baserunner to reach in Brock's two innings. Matt Bush walked a batter and allowed a hit, but a wild pickoff throw scored a run for the Twins. Garrett Richards threw a quick and scoreless ninth inning while allowing one hit.
Postgame Notes
The 2.1 innings by Dane Dunning is the shortest outing (innings-wise) in a start in his career.
It's the first three-RBI game for Josh Smith since May 28 in Triple-A Round Rock. Smith picked up 4 RBI and went 4 for 6 against the Albuquerque Isotopes.
Dylan Bundy has picked up a win in five of his last seven starts against the Rangers dating back to 2018.
Corey Seager has driven in nine runs in his last five games. He had thirty-six RBIs in his first seventy-six games before the stretch.
The Ryan Jeffers homer is the third home run allowed by Brock Burke in 2022. All three have come at home.
The Rangers entered Sunday tied for last in MLB (Rays) in defensive runs saved from the pitcher position (-8).
In the ninth inning, the Rangers announced Martín Pérez was selected as an American League All-Star. It's his first ever All-Star selection.
In Mitch Garver's final AB of the season: he hit a grounder to third base resulting in a somewhat wild throw, but the first baseman caught it and tagged Garver. Mitch will have surgery Monday to end his 2022 season.
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