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Right-handed Tyler Murre looks to continue his winning streak Wednesday afternoon as the Minnesota Twins attempt to sweep the Kansas City Royals in Minneapolis by three games.
It will be Mare's third start for the Twins since coming from the Cincinnati Reds at the Aug. 2 trade deadline. Minnesota has won both of his starters so far, including his 4-0 win against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., on Friday. he hit a six.
Mahle (6-7, 4.26 ERA) is a 3.00 ERA in Minnesota where he has 11 strikeouts in 12 innings. He made his Twins debut on August 5 against the Toronto Blue Jays at Target Field, scoring no deciding in a contest that Minnesota rallied to win 6–5 in ten innings.
In his last four starts, Mahle has his 3-0 record and a 3.38 ERA. He is 1-0 with a 2.79 ERA in two career appearances (one start) against Kansas City.
The Royals went 16-1 in his first two games of the series, the runners beat him 13-2, and he lost 9-0 on Tuesday night. .
Lefty Daniel Lynch (4-7, 4.52) made four starts against Minnesota, going 1-1 with a 4.50 ERA, and will start Wednesday in Kansas City. It's a schedule. Lynch shut out five innings, allowing two hits and walking four in his final start Friday.
Lynch will try to slow the Twins' lineup, which had 27 hits in his first two games of the series, including 23 of his singles. Minnesota beat the Royals 16-5 on Tuesday in a game that featured the fourth 4-hit game of Gio Ursula's career and a 3-hit effort by major league batting leader Luis Araez (. 336).
"I don't know, but I like it," Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli said of his team's unusually high singles totals in the first two games. “Plan clearly, go there clearly, use the entire field. You know what to look for, what to focus your attention on in these at bats. "I think we've seen a lot of really good at-bats. It's not just about hitting three runs or whatever. …It's the consistency of approach, and I think that's what we've seen." }
The Twins had a season-high 16 hits on Tuesday. Nine hits, including Gilberto Celestino's solo homer, came from Royals starter Zach Greinke.
"Our men fought him very tough," he said Baldelli. …We had to fight him until we could break it.
Meanwhile, the Twins gave Bobby Witt Jr. He got off to a quality start from Sonny Gray, who only gave a walk to Kansas City, who ended up throwing six or more scoreless frames and recording a season-high 10 strikeouts. It was the 14th time of the season that the NBA has been shut out.
After losing the series opener 4-2 on Monday, the Royals made it 8 of the series when the leadoff man reached base.
"We keep talking about teams like ourselves," said Royals manager Mike Matheny. You have to figure it out, you have to put something in a place where you can do something in the gritty at-bat, put pressure on the defense and make sure you get something overall. One man took a good plate at bat, but couldn't get it when he needed a big hit.
– Field Level Media
