Minnesota Twins at San Diego Padres

· Major League Baseball

Minnesota Twins

70-55, 34-31 Away

Final
3 - 5

San Diego Padres

71-55, 34-29 Home

Merrill hits a 3-run double as the Padres beat the Twins 5-3

San Diego (71-55) bounced back nicely after dropping two of three at Colorado over the weekend. The Padres are 21-5 since July 20.

Minnesota (70-55) had won five of seven going into the three-game set. The Twins did not hit a home run on Monday, ending their streak of eight consecutive games with a homer since Aug. 11.

King (11-6) labored through his first two innings, giving up two runs and throwing 45 pitches. But he got stronger as the game went on, surrendering a total of four hits and striking out six.

Jason Adam and Tanner Scott each pitched a scoreless inning for San Diego before Robert Suarez worked the ninth for his 28th save.

Edouard Julien walked and scored on Christian Vázquez's two-out single before Suarez retired Jose Miranda on a grounder to shortstop.

Twins right-hander Zebby Matthews (1-1) pitched five innings of four-hit ball in his second major league start. He was charged with five runs — two earned.

The game was tied at 2 in the third when Jurickson Profar reached on an error on Matthews, who dropped a throw by second baseman Julien.

With two outs and the bases loaded after two walks, Merrill doubled into the alley in left-center.

Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first after Matt Wallner doubled in Trevor Larnach from first.

San Diego responded with two runs in the bottom half. Jake Cronenworth had a run-scoring groundout, and Xander Bogaerts singled home Profar.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Padres: SS Ha-Seong Kim (jammed right shoulder) underwent an MRI. Manager Mike Shildt said the early indications are “mostly favorable,” though he expressed caution because the team was still sorting through the results. Kim got hurt on a dive back into first base on Sunday.

Twins RHP Bailey Ober (12-5, 3.49 ERA) takes the mound against Padres LHP Martin Pérez (3-5, 4.62 ERA) on Tuesday night in the second game of the series.

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Matchup Prediction

Padres: 66.1%

Twins: 33.9%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Miranda grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Vázquez to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Miranda hit for Martin
	9th Inning	Vázquez reached on infield single to third, Julien scored.
	9th Inning	Julien to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Julien walked.

Statistics

MIN		SD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	3
11	Ground Balls	10
9	Strikeouts	3
3	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	4
0	Stolen Bases	2
4	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	29
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
11	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	0
132	Pitches	128
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
6	Total Bases	6
36	Plate Appearances	34
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
1	Extra Base Hits	2
1.5	Runs Created	2.1
.161	Batting Average	.138
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.194	Slugging Percentage	.207
.161	Secondary Average	.207
.278	On Base Percentage	.265
.471	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.472
1.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
1.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.3
19.0	Batter Rating	30.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.67	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.76
.032	Isolated Power	.069
0.44	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.67
.111	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.059
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.069
6.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.2
68.5	MLB Rating	73.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0