Game 43: Cuddyer hits cycle in 11-3 win over Brewers
Milwaukee @ Minnesota (Game 1 of 3)
The Twins have made the National League teams look easy as they have gone 41-13 in interleague play over the past three years. After Friday night’s game, the Twins are now 42-13 thanks in part to Michael Cuddyer who hit for the cycle for the first time in his career.
Minnesota was fresh off a 20-1 victory over the White Sox and their offense showed no signs of slowing down. In the first inning, Michael Cuddyer got his cycle started with a 3-run bomb to left field to give the Twins a quick 3-0 lead.
Joe Mauer would hit a sacrifice fly in the second to make it a 4-0 ballgame after two innings. In the third inning, Cuddyer hit a lead off ground-rule double and would come around to score on a single from Brendan Harris to up the score to 5-0. The Twins weren’t done just yet, though.
In the fourth inning an error for the Brewers cost them a run in the early part of the inning. With two on and one out, Justin Morneau would clear the bases with a triple and extend lead to 8. Morneau would be knocked in off a single from Cuddyer to make it a 9-0 game.
The Brewers would finally put a run on the board in the top of the fifth off a sacrifice fly from Casey McGehee that would score Corey Hart. The Twins would come back in the bottom half of the sixth, though, and double their run production with a solo home run from Denard Span and an RBI triple from Cuddyer that score Morneau and gave Cuddyer the cycle.
The Brewers would score two more times, once on a Casey McGehee double that score Jody Gerut in the seventh and off a Ryan Braun single that scored Bill Hall in the eighth before starting pitcher Kevin Slowey was taken out of the game. Slowey pitched 7 1/3 innings and gave up three runs off of eight hits and recorded four strike outs.
Sean Henn came in to relieve Slowey and pitched a solid 1 2/3 innings giving up one hit and a walk while striking out one to close out the 11-3 victory in a game where Michael Cuddyer became the second Twin this season and tenth overall to hit for the cycle. Joe Mauer also went 0-2 with a pair of walks to break his 14 game hitting streak.
Attendance: 30,297
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