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04/22 21:17 CDT Mets stop 12-game skid with 3-2 win over Twins as Soto returns
but Lindor exits with calf injury
Mets stop 12-game skid with 3-2 win over Twins as Soto returns but Lindor exits
with calf injury
By MIKE FITZPATRICK
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --- Mark Vientos blooped a tiebreaking single in the eighth
inning and the New York Mets snapped their 12-game losing streak Wednesday
night, beating the Minnesota Twins 3-2 after getting one superstar back only to
see another exit with a similar injury.
Juan Soto went 1 for 3 with a single and a walk in his return from a strained
right calf, but shortstop Francisco Lindor was removed with left calf tightness
after laboring around the bases while scoring from first on Francisco Alvarez's
go-ahead double in the fourth.
Byron Buxton tied it 2-all with a leadoff homer in the sixth against Clay
Holmes, his second longball in two nights.
Brett Baty, who came off the bench to replace Lindor in the lineup, drew his
second walk of the game with two outs in the eighth against Taylor Rogers
(0-1). Alvarez coaxed a nine-pitch walk from Justin Topa before Vientos dumped
an RBI single into shallow right field. Vientos had blatantly ran through a
stop sign rounding third and was easily thrown out at home plate for the final
out of the sixth.
Luke Weaver (2-0) retired Luke Keaschall with the bases loaded to end the top
of the eighth and struck out three batters in a one-hit ninth to secure New
York's first victory since April 7 at home against Arizona.
The 12-game skid was the team's longest since August 2002.
Connor Prielipp, the Twins' top pitching prospect, needed 82 pitches to get
through four innings in his major league debut. But the 25-year-old left-hander
showcased a good slider and limited a slumping New York lineup to two runs and
four hits with six strikeouts and no walks.
Holmes allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings.
Batting cleanup, Lindor drove in a run by legging out an infield single with
two outs in the first and Victor Caratini's sacrifice fly tied the score in the
fourth.
Up next
All-Star right-hander Joe Ryan (2-2, 3.29 ERA) pitches Thursday night for
Minnesota in the series finale against RHP Christian Scott, who will be called
up from Triple-A Syracuse to make his first major league start since Tommy John
surgery in 2024.
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