A’s fall as Matthews, Bell lift Twins to win

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Zebby Matthews allowed six hits and 1 tally implicit 7 innings, Josh Bell drove successful 3 runs, and the Minnesota Twins bushed the Athletics 9-6 connected Monday night.

Byron Buxton had 3 hits and scored 4 times, rookie Kaelen Culpepper had 4 hits for the archetypal clip successful his 14th game, and Ryan Kreidler homered to assistance the Twins drawback a three-game skid.

Matthews (8-8) struck retired 7 and gave up 1 walk. The right-hander has won each 4 of his August starts.

Tommy Nance pitched a scoreless eighth, but Yoendrys Gómez surrendered a two-run treble to Jeff McNeil and back-to-back RBI doubles to Zack Gelof and Lawrence Butler successful the ninth earlier Andrew Morris retired Tommy White connected a lineout to archetypal for his 4th save.

Kody Clemens drove successful Buxton with RBI singles successful the 5th and eighth innings. Culpepper singled location Bell successful the eighth for the Twins’ last run.

Buxton drew a locomotion from Jeffrey Springs (3-12) with 1 retired successful the archetypal aft a palmy situation connected a 3rd onslaught call, and Bell deed his 27th treble — a changeable disconnected the apical of the partition successful left-center tract for a 1-0 lead.

Bell added a run-scoring groundout for a 2-0 pb successful the 2nd and a sacrifice alert to the partition successful near tract pursuing a two-run treble by Luke Keaschall for a 7-1 pb successful the sixth.

Butler had an RBI azygous successful the 3rd for the A’s, and White had an eighth-inning sacrifice fly.

Springs gave up 4 runs connected 7 hits and 2 walks implicit 4 2/3 innings. The left-hander had 3 consecutive wins to statesman April but hasn’t successful 21 starts since.

Up next

Twins RHP Taj Bradley (9-5. 3.90 ERA) starts Tuesday other Athletics LHP Gage Jump (5-8, 4.83).