Bottom’s up: Twins last four hitters supply the offense in win over Toronto

Twins end three-game slide by beating Toronto - How about shouting a hip hooray for the bottom of the Twins batting order Brooks Lee and Christian V zquez the Twins Nos and hitters hit back-to-back home runs Willi Castro batting sixth had three hits and Minnesota beat Toronto - Sunday to end a three-game slide Eight of Minnesota s hits came from its bottom four hitters Through five innings all seven Twins hits and five runs came from that quartet We ve got good guys at the bottom of the lineup too with Ty France me and Vazky right now for that encounter I think we all did it this day but those are special days Lee revealed France had two hits to extend his career-high by reaching base in straight games The last Twin to do that was Edouard Julien who reached in straight games from Sept -March Carlos Correa the association s cleanup hitter had hits in the sixth and eighth innings as did Royce Lewis who came on as a pinch-hitter in the fifth Byron Buxton earned three of the unit s eight walks which matched a season high for the company Our guys up and down the lineup just dominated the strike zone nowadays and just refused to expand and swing at very countless pitches at all out of the zone manager Rocco Baldelli noted Their guys have really good stuff and they get ahead and then they throw tons of pitches that look really good But they re not strikes And they just continue to throw them And a lot of the times it s tough and you swing at them But our guys were very prepared and very focused and pretty relentless in the way we were looking for a certain pitch in a certain spot and that s all we offered at I was really proud of that I thought that was fantastic Down - in the fourth Lee lofted at a -degree launch angle a home run just inside the right-field foul pole Six pitches later on a full count V zquez hammered a home run to the first row of the second deck just inside the left-field foul pole It s the second time this season for back-to-back Twins round-trippers DaShawn Keirsey Jr and Byron Buxton did it May at Baltimore We had a lot of baserunners because of the types of at-bats we talked about Baldelli disclosed But that really nice turning point in the battle were the two homers Sometimes you just need specific guys to come up big and have a big at-bat I don t think those guys are going up there aiming for pull-side homers I think they just reacted and got the barrel to pitches The Twins sent eight batters to the plate in the fifth scoring just two runs and leaving the bases loaded Minnesota also had the bases loaded with one out in the sixth but Myles Straw threw out Correa at the plate trying to figure on a medium-depth fly ball Minnesota was for with runners in scoring position and left men on base Joe Ryan - needed pitches to get through five innings however the final two were - - affairs The latter ended with a fine defensive play by Correa who charged in and scooped the ball directly from his glove to second baseman Kody Clemens at second base to begin a double play A fifth-inning walk was Toronto s lone baserunner in a six-inning span Brock Stewart Cole Sands and Griffin Jax each tossed an easy inning before Jhoan Duran earned his th save with a scoreless ninth