Kepler homer, Dobnak pitching leads the Twins to victory. MORE:
hit his second leadoff home run of the season,added his first homer for Minnesota, and the Twins beat the Cleveland Indians 4-1 on Friday night.
Randy Dobnak pitched five scoreless innings for Minnesota following a day of COVID-19 testing and uncertainty due to two positive tests by the St. Louis Cardinals. St. Louis had two players test positive on Friday after playing two games in Minnesota earlier in the week. The teams went through rapid testing and the visiting clubhouse underwent another round of cleaning before the determination was made at 3:30 p.m. Central to keep Friday’s game as scheduled. allowed four runs in four innings for Cleveland, which ended its streak of seven straight starts by pitchers throwing at least six innings with two runs or fewer.
Kepler, who led off the season with a home run against the Chicago White Sox, started a three-run first inning with his third homer of the year.added a pair of hits, including a two-run double in the first. The Twins have scored 12 runs in the first inning in their seven games this season.. He surrendered three hits and two walks and has given up just one run in nine innings this season.The Twins tried to ease the concerns of the Indians over the cleaning procedures for the visiting clubhouse.
“What we did was we gathered all the cleaning, the actual schedule of our cleaning,” Falvey said before the game. “Exactly what we did for each day for the Cardinals series, up and through, really, last night and what had been done at each juncture, and gave them that log, and getting down to the detail of what was sprayed, what kind of products were used, how it was wiped down, all of those things, just to make sure they felt they had complete information.
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