{"id":100714,"date":"2025-09-16T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=100714"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:25:10","slug":"deadspin-yankees-blanked-by-twins-fall-5-back-in-al-east-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=100714","title":{"rendered":"Deadspin | Yankees blanked by Twins, fall 5 back in AL East race"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/27091976.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/27091976.jpg\" alt=\"Deadspin | Yankees blanked by Twins, fall 5 back in AL East race\" \/>Sep 15, 2025; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Twins right fielder Matt Wallner (38) slides into second base before New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) can make a tag in the second inning at Target Field. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">Austin Martin doubled and drove in four runs, Simeon Woods Richardson struck out a career-high 11 over six scoreless innings, and the Minnesota Twins pulled away for a 7-0 win over the New York Yankees on Monday night in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">Brooks Lee went 2-for-4 with a homer, a double and two RBIs for Minnesota (66-84) in the opener of a three-game set. Luke Keaschall also drove in a run.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">Jose Caballero doubled for the Yankees&#8217; only extra-base hit. Aaron Judge went 0-for-1 and drew three walks for New York (83-67), which collected only two hits and dropped five games behind the American League East-leading Toronto Blue Jays (88-62),\\.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">New York also saw its AL wild-card lead cut to one game over the idle Boston Red Sox (82-68). The Houston Astros (81-69) hold the third and final spot, a game behind the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">Woods Richardson (7-4) posted his best outing of the season. The right-hander gave up two hits and walked three while seeing his ERA drop from 4.58 to 4.31.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">Yankees left-hander Carlos Rodon (16-9) gave up two runs on five hits in six innings. He walked one and struck out four.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section id=\"section-7\">Twins relievers Kody Funderburk, Travis Adams and Pierson Ohl combined for three hitless innings.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-8\">Minnesota grabbed a 1-0 lead in third. Johnny Pereda hit a leadoff double to left, advanced to third on an infield single by Eduoard Julien and scored on a fielder&#8217;s choice by Martin.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">The Twins increased their lead to 2-0 in the fifth. Lee tracked a 92-mph fastball on the first pitch of the inning and lifted it 355 feet over the wall in left for his 15th homer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-10\">Minnesota erupted for five runs in the seventh. Trevor Larnach started the big inning with a double to right. Lee followed moments later with an RBI double.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-11\">The Twins loaded the bases with one out for Martin, who delivered a three-run double to left. The hit scored Lee, Julien and Byron Buxton and made it 6-0.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-12\">Yankees manager Aaron Boone brought in Camilo Doval to replace Luke Weaver, but the Twins weren&#8217;t finished. Keaschall hit an RBI single to score Martin for a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-13\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadspin | Yankees blanked by Twins, fall 5 back in AL East race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":100720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deadspin | Yankees blanked by Twins, fall 5 back in AL East race - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=100714\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deadspin | Yankees blanked by Twins, fall 5 back in AL East race - 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