Twins vs. Rangers Game Highlights (8/15/24) | MLB Highlights

Cody Bradford Well, we took a take a look at cody Bradford on that bump for Cody Bradford. He has the four fastball. The change up 28% of the time throws that curveball slider and cutter man, that curveball has really been great for Cody Carlos Santana Bradford this year. That is in the air fly ball, center field, easily played by Tavares. Here's Carlos Santana, the veteran DH switch hitter batting right. Bradford comes home, swung on and there's a high fly ball to deep center back goes tavares. He slows as he approaches the track steps onto the, makes the catch and there are two away and the hitter will be Royce Lewis smashes this one to left center field deep in the gap that won't be caught. That's been played off the wall as Lewis will sprint to second base. He is in easily with a two out first inning double Roy. All smiles. He's in scoring position and the twins look to jump on Bradford early tonight, Jose Miranda and the pitch to Miranda, there's a swing and there's a high fly ball to left back is Langford in front of the track. He stops. He waits. He's got it three fly ball outs and Bradford's out of the inning one hit and one man left the starting pitcher Bailey over making his 23rd start of the season five pitch Knicks four fastball, heavy use of the change up the cutter slider every now and Then he might flip Willie Castro a curveball in. Marcus hits this one on the ground shortstop diving stop there by Castro and he just can't quite get up to make the play. So Marcus Simeon is aboard infield hit and Texas threatening two on nobody else. And Nathaniel Lowe coming up perfect double play guy. The shallow center Mart-n, the catch runners hold here's Adolis Garcia coming off a big game in Boston. Two home runs in a single 1st and 2nd 1 away. No score, first inning and this one is up the middle. That's a base hit simon around third. He'll score RB I single by Adolis garcia and perhaps continuing to spark this offense. If we see the return of Then Katie Bar the door at second garcia at first, not even close. So Ober walks about two batters per nine. He's walked two here in the first inning where you could dig through score books for a long time and not find a two walk inning from Bailey over the bases will be loaded for Josh Young. That ball hit hard but straight up in the air to center should be deep enough to get a run home. Mart-n makes the catch smith tags. He'll head to the plate. A sack fly by Young makes it 2 to 0. Rangers runners on 1st and 2nd and 2 down here in the bottom of the first. Jonah, he will be the strike pitch roll to the right side. Kyle Farmer picks it up, waits for Santana throws to first in the inning. That long last is over Castro Farmer, Vasquez twins down a pair. We're in the top of the second and one of four as Castro lifts one high in the air to deep left field. That ball sailing all the way to the wall and that ball is gone for a home run Willie Castro over the outstretched glove leaping Travis Jankowski in left center field with his career best 10th home run and the twins are on the board. Here's Kyle Farber who hit his first homer of the season on Tuesday night. This one deep to the gap in left center Jankowski will turn and that is in play off the base of the wall. Took a big odd bounce back in center. Farmer is going round mishandled his center farm, got the green light. He's going to try and score the throw to the play. Not in time. Kyle inside the park home run and the twins go back to back. It is 22. I don't think you can practice that and hit and hit that corner and make the ball ricochet to the right of the center fielder. You can't recreate that unfortunate bounce for the Rangers and a great bounce for farmer and look at him. He's exhausted. They scored a triple in an E A. So it's a 2 to 2 game. Speaking of guys who have been around for a while, it's kind of nuts that Carlos Santana is still going. He's 38 years old. 12 swing and a Miss Bradford pumps the fastball by him and that ends the inning. But the twins score a couple of runs, a homer and a little league homer over starts him off Jankowski back to back changeups. You get a triple three in a row call their Hawk and we saw in the first inning that Bailey relied heavily on his cutter and this time came back with that change up and that's seven hits and 11 at bats for Marcus is Bailey over Josh smith. A this ball piled high towards the rafters foul territory. First base side Vasquez is under it and the 10 year man makes the catch for the final out of the inning. Here comes Bobi garcia already with a base hit tonight and an RB I there's a base hit this one to right and it's a two for two night for garcia and that one that's hit hard 102 miles per hour. Here's josh Young sack fly in his first trip 2 to 2 and that ball is lined out to right field that gets down base hit Garcia chugging for third. He'll get there without a throw. That one stung by josh Young 96 MPH and the Rangers have him on the corners and they're on the corners here with two outs and he will have a chance. This ball in the air to center field. Mart-n breaks back now rolls in catch in over time is zero for two and Bailey over is through a scoreless. First. Here's Austin Mart-n sounds like a car. He bunted into a force play his first time up. The runner goes from first. The pitch is hit in the air to right field right at Adolis Garcia at second base. Vasquez has to hurry back to first long throw. They got him. Ado doubles them off as Vasquez was all the way down at second base and that is a double play 93 as Ado throws a strike to Nathaniel Lowe to put an end to the top of the fourth sian with a base hit could give the rangers the lead. Jankowski is dancing at second one. Hop to third Lewis. His first throw is on target, holding at second base Jankowski and there are two down and it's pulled to first base where it's by Santana and the inning is done hit that one right on the snout but right at Carlos Santana, it's 2 to 2 after four. We look at that opponent batting average for cody Bradford as the game goes along, pitches one through 25 306 26 through 5216 and 119. After that 50 pitch mark and a little bouncer by the mound charging in Simmons throws on the run and he gets it there in time to get Lewis has doubled and walked. The pitch is swung on, pulled on the ground wide to third charging. It is smith at short. He throws to first in time. It is a 123, no hassle inning. Adolis is two for 22 singles swinging it, but he's two for two tonight. Pardon me? He's three for three tonight. Three hard hit singles by Adolis garcia. He is absolutely on fire. Here's Langford is zero for one long set for Rover. He's so good at this, changing his hold. He delivers in a big swing and Miss fans Langford third strikeout. More importantly, second out of the inning. Young will bat this ball skied in the air to right nice bounce back from over. He's already headed for the dugout. Kepler taps his leg makes the catch inning over. Both pitchers are starting to roll two outs in the top of the sixth for the lefty Max Kepler and that one lined out to center but hangs up for Taveras and the inning is over. Bailey has really bounced back beautifully after that 28 pitch first inning and it all comes down to just the crispness of his high fly ball left field Margo drifting in underneath it. Manny is there, Manny makes the catch and Bailey over is through 62 run innings walks for Kirby Yates. So two on and Santana is the batter. Here's a battle between a couple of old war horses. The 12 in the dirt skips in the air and the runners advance so he could not smother that. And now the infield Hawk is going to have to come in here. Veteran Santana got to figure out a way to get one of these runs in the air to right center field in the. It is Garcia catching Walner tagging throw comes into third base. Twins take the lead and Carlos Santana ninth inning sack fly is 3 to 2. Durant can finish off the Rangers Hawk and the twins can't prevail here by one tonight. Tap Wiley, first baseline Durant will pounce he'll throw it in time ballgame over and the twins beat the Rangers 3 to 2.