Game 20: Rays over Twins in 7-1 victory
April 27, 2009
Tampa Bay @ Minnesota (Game 1 of 3)
Scott Baker was able to strike out seven batters and kept the ball inside of the park, but still allowed four runs off of six hits to pick up his third loss of the season as the Rays beat the Twins 7-1 at the Metrodome. The Rays put up a pair of runs on the board against Baker in the first and fifth innings but Baker contained the Rays offense with 9 consecutive outs in the innings in between.
As has been in the past, run support from the Twins offense was sparse with their lone run coming off of a solo home run from Joe Crede in the bottom of the sixth. Crede’s home run, his third of the year and first in the Metrodome as a member of the Twins, wasn’t the only ball that sailed into the outfield seats. Carlos Pena hit his ninth home run of the season against R.A. Dickey in the eighth and Jason Bartlett sent one into the lower left field seats in the ninth off of Juan Morillo.
Although Baker is winless and picked up his third straight loss of the season, he pitched four solid innings of the six complete innings pitched. He also dropped his high ERA from 12.46 to 9.82 after this last outing.
Attendance: 17,988
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