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MINNESOTA TWINS (13-11) VS. OAKLAND ATHLETICS (11-15) TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 – TARGET FIELD – MINNEAPOLIS, MN FINAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB WINNING PITCHER: Santana (5-0, 0.66) Oakland Athletics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 0 8 LOSING PITCHER: Gray (0-1, 6.00) SAVE: None Minnesota Twins 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 1 X 9 11 0 5 FIRST PITCH: 7:10 GAME TIME TEMP: 60 degrees, wind NNE at 6 mph TIME OF GAME: 2:48 ATTENDANCE: 18,930 HOME RUNS: Dozier (3rd, 3rd inning off Gray, none on, two out, 1-0 pitch, 397 feet to left) Sano (8th, 3rd inning off Gray, one on, two out, 0-0 pitch, 466 feet to center) Castro (3rd, 4th inning off Gray, none on, one out, 0-0 pitch, 425 feet to center) Buxton (1st, 7th inning off Valdez, none on, one out, 2-2 pitch, 414 feet to left) Dozier (4th, 7th inning off Valdez, none on, one out, 0-2 pitch, 423 feet to center) Mauer (1st, 7th inning off Valdez, one on, two outs, 2-0 pitch, 389 feet to left) Alonso (5th, 9th inning off Tonkin, none on, none out, 0-0 pitch, 435 feet to center) PITCHING LINES: TWINS IP H R ER BB SO HR WP PITCHES/K Ervin Santana (W, 5-0) 6.0 3 0 0 3 7 0 0 96/61 NEXT GAME: Tyler Duffey 2.0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 29/17 Twins vs. Athletics Michael Tonkin 1.0 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 19/12 Wednesday, May 3 – 7:10 pm (CT) --------------------------------------------- ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR WP PITCHES/K LHP Hector Santiago (2-1, 2.43) Sonny Gray (L, 0-1) 6.0 5 4 4 2 4 3 0 88/56 vs. Cesar Valdez 1.0 5 4 4 1 0 3 0 32/20 RHP Kendall Graveman (2-1, 2.25) Frankie Montas 1.0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 20/12 TWINS NOTES: • THE TWINS have now won six of their last nine games...won by a season-high eight runs…Minnesota batters hit six home runs tonight, the most in Target Field history, and for the first time since June 16, 2016 at New York-AL (also 6)…the six homers were Minnesota’s most at home since June 9, 1966 vs. the Kansas City Athletics…Byron Buxton, Brian Dozier and Joe Mauer all homered in the seventh inning, marking the first time Minnesota homered three times in an inning since June 26, 2016 at New York-AL (6th)…Buxton and Dozier’s back-to-back homers were Minnesota’s first since Eddie Rosario and Dozier went back-to-back on August 13, 2016 vs. Kansas City. • ERVIN SANTANA won his fifth straight decision to begin the season for the second time in his career (started 6-0 in 2008 with Los Angeles-AL)…is the first Twin to begin the season with five straight wins since Carlos Silva in 2004 (Brian Duensing started 5-0 in 2009 after joining the rotation in August)...is the eighth pitcher in history to begin a season with six straight starts of 6.0-plus innings with one or fewer runs allowed, and the first since Danny Darwin in 1990…Fernando Valenzuela (1981) and Walter Johnson (1913) hold the record with seven such starts to begin a season…has pitched 6.0-plus innings and allowed four-or-fewer hits in all six of his starts this season, matching Nolan Ryan (1971) for the longest streak to begin a season in history…has pitched 16.0 straight scoreless innings vs. Oakland dating back to May 30, 2016. • BRIAN DOZIER (2-for-5) recorded his sixth-career multi-homer game and first since September 6, 2016 vs. Kansas City…homered for the first time since April 16 vs. Chicago-AL…has hit safely in 10 of 13 games at Target Field this season. • MIGUEL SANO (1-for-3) homered for the fourth time in his last five games…his 466-foot homer in the third inning is just the second home run to ever reach “Catch” in center field (also: ByungHo Park on April 16, 2016 vs. Los Angeles-AL [462 feet])...is hitting .600 (12-for-20) with five extra- base hits and 13 RBI in his last five games…has multiple RBI in three straight games and in four of his last five. • EDDIE ROSARIO (3-for-4) extended his hitting streak to a career-high 12 games, the longest streak by a Twin this season…Rosario is hitting .404 (19-for-47) during the streak…matched a season-high with three hits (April 25 at Texas)…has multiple hits in three of his last five games. • BYRON BUXTON (1-for-4) hit his first home run since October 2, 2016 at Chicago-AL…he has now reached base safely in eight straight games, hitting .304 (7-for-23) in that span. • JOE MAUER (1-for-4) hit his first home run since September 9, 2016 vs. Cleveland…reached base safely for an 11th straight game vs. Oakland…he is hitting .368 (14-for-38) during his 11-game on-base streak. ATHLETICS NOTES: • THE ATHLETICS have now lost seven of their last eight games and fell to 1-6 on their current road trip with tonight’s loss to the Twins…Oakland has scored two runs or fewer in six of its last eight games. -More- • SONNY GRAY made his season debut…matched a career-high with three homers allowed (3x, last: May 15, 2016 at Tampa Bay)…had not allowed a homer in two-career starts at Target Field prior to tonight…lost to Minnesota for a third-straight start…snapped a six-game homerless streak by Oakland starters…Athletics starters entered tonight’s game with the fewest homers allowed in baseball (9)…Gray was Oakland’s eighth different starter this season, tying Los Angeles-AL and Cincinnati for the most in the majors. • OAKLAND PITCHERS allowed a season-high six homers, their most since May 8, 2016 at Baltimore (also 6). • TREVOR PLOUFFE (1-for-4) returned to Target Field tonight for the first time as a visitor after playing for Minnesota from 2010-16…among all- time leaders in Target Field history, Plouffe ranks second in games (380), hits (359), doubles (87), RBI (191) and home runs (55). -More- .