Twins score twice in the 11th against White Sox in 8-6 win originally appeared in NBC Sports Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) — Brooks Lee and Manuel Margot drove in runs in the 11th inning and the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 8-6 on Monday night.
Lee’s second RBI single of the game scored automatic runner Max Kepler. Byron Buxton raced home from third on Margot’s soft ground, and the Twins won their third straight and improved to 8-0 against the major league-worst White Sox this season.
Jhoan Duran (5-3) pitched a hitless tenth for the win. Kody Funderburk, the Twins’ seventh reliever, threw a perfect inning for his first career save.
Jared Shuster (1-2) allowed both runs in the 11th and suffered the loss as Chicago fell in its toughest 41 games of the season under .500 (26-67).
Chicago’s Nicky Lopez hit a double in the eighth for his second hit and RBI of the game, tying it at 6.
Carlos Correa hit a towering solo homer to cap a four-run seventh that put the Twins ahead 6-5. Correa’s 12th homer followed Matt Wallner’s two-run homer off reliever Jordan Leasure that tied it at 5.
Minnesota’s Trevor Larnach also went deep. Buxton had three hits and an RBI.
White Sox catcher Martín Maldonado hit his third home run, and second in three games. He entered batting .101.
Eloy Jiménez, the oft-injured slugger in the middle of Chicago’s lineup, had two hits and a run to end a 10-game drought without an RBI. Corey Julks added an RBI double.
Leasure, called up from Triple-A Charlotte earlier in the day, was tagged for four runs and managed just two outs after relieving starter Chris Flexen and inheriting a 5-2 lead.
Twins starter Chris Paddack allowed two runs and three hits in five innings after being reinstated from the 15-day injured list. The right-hander walked two, struck out three and threw 78 pitches as he recovered from right arm fatigue.
Flexen gave up two runs and seven hits in six innings, striking out four and walking one.
Larnach’s home run in the first put Minnesota ahead. Maldonado’s shot in the third tied it at 1.
The Twins took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on doubles by Kepler and Buxton. Lopez scored on Julks’ double to tie it at 2.
Jiménez and Lopez had RBI singles in Chicago’s sixth run.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: Correa was back in the lineup after leaving in the first inning of Sunday’s 3-2 win over Houston when he was hit by a pitch on his right hand. … To make room for Paddack, the Twins optioned RHP Josh Widner to Triple-A St. Louis.
White Sox: OF Tommy Pham has been eliminated from the lineup due to a dental problem, the team said… CF Luis Robert Jr. did not start on a scheduled off day, but came in as a pinch-hitter in the sixth.
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