Brian Duensing’s pitching helps Minnesota Twins humiliate Kansas City Royals, 6-0 – MLB Update
Minnesota Twins’ starter, Brian Duensing was outstanding with the ball as he threw eight important innings and struck-out four batters in the Twins’ 6-0 win against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City on June 5.
The Twins swept the Royals 4-0 in the four-game series.
In the first inning, the Twins’ blasted three runs to get a 3-0 lead. Delmon Young hit a grounder to third base, Ben Revere posted one run, Danny Valencia got out at second base and Alexi Casilla moved to third base. The second and third run for the Twins
were taken by Casilla and Young when Jason Repko singled towards centre-field.
The pitchers lifted the momentum of their teams from the second to fifth inning as they did not allow a single run. They threw the ball in perfect line to restrict the scoring shots of the batters. The sixth inning again went in favour of the Twins as they
took a 4-0 lead when Luke Hughes contributed one run on the drive of Repko off centre-field.
During the seventh and eighth inning, the batters failed to post any run on the score-board. Duensing pitched economically with an ERA of 4.73 and permitted no run on six hits. He gave just one walk on his 113 pitches. Duensing expressed his excitement and
said, “It worked out pretty well.”
The Twins’ manager Ron Gardenhire had a huge ovation for Duensing as he said, “A really good performance by Mr. Duensing. With the heat out there, to last that long was pretty impressive.”
Drew Butera and Hughes both scored two runs collectively on the triple-run shot of Matt Tolbert towards deep right-centre and gave the Twins a final 6-0 lead at the top of the ninth inning. Wilson Betemit was struck-out swinging while Mike Aviles grounded
out to short-stop position and did not add a run for the Royals at the bottom of the ninth inning.
The Royals’ manager, Ned Yost was disappointed and said, “We're not putting together much offense right now. We're having a hard time generating any offense to put runs on the board. That hurts when you can't do that.”
Jeff Francis was expensive as he gave four runs on six hits in his seven inning pitches. He allowed two walks on 102 pitches.
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