The Angels had a chance to ride a comeback all the way through, but the seventh inning turned into the difference in a 5-3 loss to the Twins on the second night of their three-game series.
Los Angeles erased a 3-0 deficit, only to watch Minnesota answer right back against reliever Mitch Farris. The Twins broke a 3-3 tie with a two-run rally in the bottom of the seventh and held on from there.
Ryan Johnson got the start for the Angels opposite Joe Ryan, and the early damage came in a second inning that started with a walk to Kody Clemens. Royce Lewis brought him in to open the scoring, then Victor Caratini walked and Tristan Gray singled him to thrd. Luke Keaschall finished the frame with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.
The Angels finally cracked Joe Ryan in the third. Zach Neto singled, Mike Trout doubled, and Jorge Soler followed with a two-run double to cut the deficit to 3-2. Trout, as the source put it, “took it easy on the way to first, then turned on the afterburners and executed a head-first slide to beat the throw.”
From there, the game settled down. Johnson lasted through five innings, and Ryan was pulled after six. Johnson gave up the three runs in that one rough inning, allowing three hits and three walks with a strikeout, while Ryan allowed two runs on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts.
The Angels clawed all the way back in the seventh with a little small-ball work. Neto singled off Tommy Nance, stole second when the pitch sailed to the backstop, and Nolan Schanuel dropped a flare into left. Neto scored on an off-line throw to tie it at 3-3.
But the tie didn’t survive the inning. Lewis and Victor Karatini hit back-to-back doubles, and Alan Roden added a single to push Minnesota back in front 5-3, a lead the Twins kept to finish off the Angels.
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