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Minnesota Twins Daily Clips Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Minnesota Twins Daily Clips Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Tuesday's Twins-Cleveland game recap. Star Tribune p. 1 Twins' Kepler enjoys 'amazing' day with title, promotion. Star Tribune (Miller) p. 2 Postgame: Indians played it conservatively during 8th inning. Star Tribune (Miller) p. 2 Twins gain ground with 3-1 victory over Cleveland. Star Tribune (Miller) p. 3 Kepler thrilled to the max in majors. Pioneer Press (Beradino) p. 4 Minnesota Twins beat Indians behind Ervin Santana, bullpen. Pioneer Press (Beradino) p. 5 Twinsights: Ricky Nolasco moves closer to joining bullpen. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 6 Twinsights: Tommy Milone encouraged after first throwing session. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 7 Postgame Twinsights: Trevor May still dealing with back spasms. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 7 Kluber, Hughes set to square off as race heats up. MLB.com (Helfand) p. 8 Don't count out Twins, Tribe just yet. MLB.com (Castrovince) p. 9 Twins hold off Indians, now 2 back in WC race. MLB.com (Bollinger & Helfand) p. 10 Santana doing his part for postseason push. MLB.com (Bollinger) p. 11 He may not play much, but Kepler’s offensive approach portends success. 1500espn.com (Wetmore) p. 12 Wetmore’s 5 thoughts: Santana’s roll, Perkins’ role, walk sparks rally. 1500espn.com (Wetmore) p. 13 Santana strong again as Twins win first of 7 games left with Indians. Associated Press p. 14 StaTuesday: The Twins’ Max Kepler and German-born players. Fox Sports North (Heller) p. 15 Tuesday’s Top 5. ESPN.com (Schoenfield) p. 16 Eurostar: How German Native and Top Twins Prospect Max Kepler Can Help Baseball Continue to Go Global. Grantland (Baumann) p. 17 Tuesday’s Twins-Cleveland game recap Star Tribune | September 22, 2015 GAME RECAP IMPACT PLAYER Ervin Santana, Twins The veteran righthander gave up only one run in seven innings, allowing five hits while striking out seven and walking one. BY THE NUMBERS 13 Saves this season for Kevin Jepsen in 18 attempts. He has eight saves for the Twins. 2 Hits each for Aaron Hicks and Brian Dozier, the top two hitters in the batting order. ON DECK Indians righthander Corey Kluber will face righthander Phil Hughes, getting another shot in the Twins’ rotation. Game time is 7:10 p.m. Twins’ Kepler enjoys ‘amazing’ day with title, promotion Phil Miller | Star Tribune | September 22, 2015 Max Kepler didn’t think a day in baseball could get much better than hitting a home run, then celebrating a championship shortly afterward. But it did. The German-born outfielder approached his Class AA Chattanooga manager, Doug Mientkiewicz, during the postgame revelry, planning to present him with a game ball. But Mientkiewicz cut him off. “He congratulated me on the great year, [and said] ‘You’re getting moved up,’ ” Kepler said. “I was speechless. I was about to cry. I don’t cry much, but I was tearing up. … It was amazing.” Kepler called his sister, Emma, in Tallahassee, Fla., and his mother, Kathy, in Berlin, and both immediately booked flights to the Twin Cities in order to be at Target Field on Tuesday night. His father is traveling for the ballet school he runs, so he’s unable to make it right away, Kepler said. But it’s not certain the Keplers will get to watch Max play much in the Twins’ remaining games, not with a playoff spot at stake. Twins manager Paul Molitor said he believes the time spent in the majors will benefit the 22-year-old outfielder and first baseman, and it’s a nice reward for a brilliant season, but he’s likely to stick with more experienced players down the stretch. “It’s going to be tough to insert him in there in very many situations,” Molitor said. “I know he can run, I know he can play defense, I know he can put together a good at-bat against right and left. I would love to give him a chance to get exposed up here, I just can’t predict how it’s going to play out.” Not that Kepler minds. After hitting three home runs in the Southern League championship series, capping a breakout season at Chattanooga — a .318 average with 56 extra-base hits — he’s just delighted to be at Target Field. His plan for the next two weeks? “Just to learn from these big guys up here and just soak it up like a sponge,” Kepler said. “I’m just so happy to be here.” On the mend There was another new face in the clubhouse Tuesday: Logan Darnell, the lefthander who was sidelined because of pneumonia for 10 days. Darnell contracted the illness when the Twins arrived in Chicago on Sept. 10, and assumed it was a bad cold or the flu. But when he still felt ill upon returning to Minneapolis last week, the Twins sent him for X-rays. “It got real bad,” Darnell said. “On the X-ray, my whole right lung was covered” in fluids. So much for his September call-up. He stayed in bed at his hotel all last week, with fellow call-up A.J. Achter bringing him food and medicine. Darnell lost 17 pounds during the ordeal, “ so now it’s about gaining some of my strength back, gaining some of that weight, trying to get healthy again.” He won’t go on the road trip this weekend, and it’s unlikely he’ll pitch at all this month, now that he’s missed so much time. Darnell plans to play winter ball in Venezuela, so he’s preparing for that. Etc. • Ricky Nolasco threw nearly 50 pitches in instructional ball Monday, then worked out with the Twins’ rookies Tuesday before flying back to Minnesota. He likely will throw one more side session this week, but could be activated and in the Twins’ bullpen by the weekend. He won’t start, Molitor said, “but right now I’m thinking about winning. If we continue to do that, we’ll probably try to find a role for him out there.” • Tommy Milone played catch in the outfield Tuesday and likely will do the same Wednesday, he said, while the Twins determine when he will pitch next. “It felt a little tired, but that’s expected,” Milone said of his stiff shoulder. “It felt better coming out, so that’s the encouraging part.” Postgame: Indians played it conservatively during 8th inning Phil Miller | Star Tribune | September 23, 2015 A handful of extras from a tight, playoff-intense ballgame: Trailing 3-1 in the eighth inning, the Indians made a couple of non-aggressive decisions that ended up helping the Twins. Chris Johnson and Jose Ramirez led off the inning with back-to-back singles, chasing Ervin Santana from the game in favor of Glen Perkins. Indians manager Terry Francona sent Mike Aviles into the game to pinch-run for Johnson, then signaled leadoff hitter Jason Kipnis to bunt. It was an interesting decision, considering Kipnis is one of the Indians’ most dangerous hitters and rookie Francisco Lindor and backup Michael 2 Martinez were due up next, and the Twins weren’t sure that would be Francona’s move. “I wasn’t sure if Kipnis was going to swing or bunt, [so] we were conservative about our defense,” Twins manager Paul Molitor said. “But we got the out, which helped.” It did, and what came next may have helped even more. Lindor drove a fly ball to right field, and Torii Hunter backed up slightly to catch it. Aviles broke for the plate, but stopped after about five steps and retreated back to third as Hunter threw home. There’s no way to know, but Hunter’s throw was slightly up the first-base line, so it appeared Aviles would have scored. That’s what Molitor thought, anyway. “I think it was probably a fairly good proposition to score the run, but when you’re trailing by two and you’re a base hit away from tying the game, it’s a tough call for the third-base coach,” in this case Mike Sarbaugh, Molitor said. “I wasn’t sure what he was going to do with him there, to be honest, but I think they [decided] to take another shot at a base hit.” Didn’t happen. Martinez grounded into the hole at second base, and Brian Dozier made a diving stop to get the out and end the inning, the Twins’ two-run cushion intact. XXX Perkins, by the way, appears to be himself again, working out of that eighth inning on just six pitches, all strikes. Molitor said he tries to avoid bringing Perkins in with runners on base, but it worked out well this time. And the back problems that sidelined him for much of August and September? “He tells me the back [injury] is a thing of the past,” Molitor said. “I don’t think he has any lingering symptoms. I think he feels as good as he has in awhile.” That means that Molitor is free to use Perkins, Kevin Jepsen and Trevor May, when healthy, in any late-inning situation that might come up. “It certainly gives us options,” the manager said. XXX The Twins hadn’t beaten Danny Salazar since 2013. On Wednesday — weather permitting, since a daylong rain is in the forecast — they will get a chance to face another longtime nemesis, Corey Kluber, who has allowed four runs in three starts against Minnesota this season. It’s a rematch of the Aug. 9 game, Kluber vs. Phil Hughes, in which Kluber pitched a one-hitter and Hughes injured his back.
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