The Minnesota Twins scored a 6-5 win over the Chicago White Sox Tuesday night time, extending the franchise’s longest win streak since 2008 to 9 video games.
The White Sox jumped out to a 2-0 lead, then retook the lead at 4-2 after the Twins tied the sport within the 5th inning. Minnesota then rallied for a 5-4 lead with a two-run 8th earlier than Andrew Benintendi tied the sport for the White Sox with a solo house run within the backside of the inning.
However the Twins put runners at the corners within the most sensible of the 9th, and a Max Kepler sacrifice fly scored Byron Buxton from 3rd base to position the Twins up for just right, 6-5.
The win extends a dramatic turnaround from a 7-13 begins that now has Minnesota at 16-13 and three.5 video games at the back of the AL Central main Cleveland Guardians. Their 8th win in a row marked their longest successful streak since 2011. The nine-game win streak is now their longest since they gained 10 instantly in 2008.
The win streak has coincided with a brand new custom within the Minnesota dugout. Summer time sausage has turn into a staple within the dugout this spring and an issue of burgeoning baseball lore. Hitting trainer David Popkins introduced a sausage to the dugout for the for the beginning of some other sequence in opposition to the White Sox final week.
The Twins swept that four-game sequence to begin their win streak, and batters were tapping the sausage — which stays packaged — for just right good fortune since. Right here it’s in motion final week.
With the win streak alive and smartly, do not be expecting the sausage’s reign to finish anytime quickly.