Trevor May turned in arguably the best outing of his young career, and was backed by a three-run homer from Torii Hunter to give the Twins a 7-2 win over the Indians on Sunday afternoon at Target Field.
May, making his 11th career start, went six innings, allowing just one run on four hits with no walks and four strikeouts. It was first time in his career he went at least six innings and gave up fewer than three runs. It helped the Twins to their second straight series win after also taking two of three from the Royals this week. More >
“A lot of good things happened today,” Twins manager Paul Molitor said. “Trevor May was able to have a nice six innings against a predominantly left-handed lineup. He didn’t use his spinning pitches, but was able to use his changeup to be effective. He gave us an opportunity and we were able to get some runs early and keep adding on.”
May outpitched Indians left-hander T.J. House, who surrendered five runs on seven hits and two walks over 5 2/3 innings. House allowed three runs in the second, when he loaded the bases with nobody out after walking Kennys Vargas, serving up a double to Trevor Plouffe and plunking Kurt Suzuki. He was hurt by another leadoff walk in the fourth that led to another run before exiting in the sixth after giving up a two-out single to Shane Robinson.
“I thought coming out his stuff was flat. It looked like he was a little sluggish,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “When TJ is good, he’s got the good two-seam going down in the zone and then off of that comes his breaking ball and the changeup. He didn’t ever really have much of a feel for his changeup.”
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