Dane Myers' Bloop Single in the 9th Stuns the Twins and Keeps Cincinnati Rolling
Sometimes baseball comes down to one swing in the ninth inning, and on Saturday in Minneapolis, pinch hitter Dane Myers delivered exactly what the Cincinnati Reds needed. His bloop single scored Spencer Steer and lifted Cincinnati to a 5-4 comeback win over the Minnesota Twins, capturing the first two games of the three-game set at Target Field.
The Ninth-Inning Drama
The Reds were down and fighting back when Myers stepped in as a pinch hitter in the top of the ninth. That's when he laced his clutch single to score Steer and send the Reds dugout into celebration. It was the kind of moment that shifts momentum in April and tells you something about a team's resilience. Kyle Nicolas (1-0) earned the win after striking out all three batters he faced in the eighth inning. Tony Santillan closed it out with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth and notched his first save of the season. Cole Sands (0-1) took the loss after giving up Myers' game-winner.
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Minnesota had its chances to put this one away early. The Twins jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Ryan Jeffers crushed a triple into the left field gap, scoring both Austin Martin and Josh Bell. They extended it to 3-1 in the third when Josh Bell's earlier single set up an Austin Martin run that scored on Luke Keaschall's line drive to shallow right.
But Cincinnati kept chipping away. Tyler Stephenson's sacrifice fly cut it to 2-1 in the second. Eugenio Suarez doubled in the fourth and came home on Stephenson's single to the left field gap, pulling the Reds within one at 3-2. The Twins pushed it back to 4-2 in the fifth on Brooks Lee's RBI single, but the Reds never quit. An Elly De La Cruz RBI single in the seventh made it 4-3, and then Hinds' sacrifice fly tied the game at 4-4 in the eighth.
What's Next
The Reds and Twins will wrap up their series Sunday with Cincinnati riding serious momentum after stealing two straight on the road. This is the kind of early-season win that matters more than the box score suggests.
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