Twins vs. Dodgers Game Highlights (5/17/23) | MLB Highlights

Twenty five year old from Justin Texas one last deep breath and here he comes for the Dodgers looking for the series win. Dustin May he's going to try and keep it in the park. He's got to give the Dodgers some length today. He was dynamite his last out and you see those numbers opponents average one seventy one. And so we're all set for the rubber match as Joey Gallo stands in and a one to pitch swings and misses a fastball to the top of the zone one away. Nothing has brought Dodger fans more enjoyment this week than watching Carlos Correa struggle just one for nine and like a house by the side of the road he watches a fastball for strike three. Buxton will stand in and in an 0 for twenty six skid here on Monday night. Yanked to left on a line trace Thompson makes the play score his first inning for Dustin May and the Dodgers come to bed against Sonny Gray Sonny Gray thirty three years old better than ever. Here in his 11th season the major leagues out of those eight starts he's given up zero or one in seven of them and his one thirty nine era the best in the American League. Hey so there is a violation before this game even started for Gray. I'm not sure he knew. See he's looking at home plate umpire Dan Bolino and yeah. So the game started one ball no strikes he goes three straight balls and a lead off walk. That's like waking up in the morning getting your bowl of cereal and finding something in it you don't want. Here's Freeman. It's a soft bounce at a first that's booted by Kirov and everybody's saying that a four pitch walk with another very wide miss. So bases loaded chance for the Dodgers in this first inning and it belongs to Jason Hayward and now Hayward's gone on strikes two down. Works not done yet. Twenty fifth pitch of the inning to Miguel Vargas. Brown ball the short. And the Dodgers leave them full in the first inning. So unsettling news here Dustin May leaves the game after one inning and Dylan Covey is going to come in to make his Dodger debut. He's been pitching in Triple-A not just his Dodger debut but his first big league game in three years. He spent the last couple of years though in Japan and returns to the majors here. No score second inning. Jorge Polanco leads off for the Twins will die between Vargas and Betts to get their second soft single of the afternoon. Castro said a good series to four last night knocked in a run as the guys hitting well below 200 for much of the year. Kobe's one Oh bounce gently right side bunch of soft contact in this city. The first one for his hometown team Dylan Covey back in the major leagues pitching for the Dodgers scoreless game top of the order for the Dodgers. Mookie Betts fly to right centerfield Gordon to the gap at the track can't get there. Extra bases for Mookie Betts makes the turn heads for third. He's got a lead off triple eight consecutive hits for Mookie Betts have been extra bases for the Dodgers now a runner at third. Nobody at Freeman coming up in the air to left. Let's see Larnach moving over. He's got a strong arm makes the catch throws it up the line and it's cut off from the Dodgers around the ball. Freddie Freeman with two strikes the Dodgers on the board first one nothing one down and now Buxton you like to answer right here. Kobe get too comfortable out there. He's look comfortable so far so not hit well into left center field as that's going to be get up get up gone as Byron Buxton is ninth of the year and has tied it up one one. He's had a great series. You can just take over a ball game with so many different elements. I tell you answer right there one one game here in the fourth Alvin fly to right his first time. And his last 13 at bats punches this one by the mound and that will snap the offer as it sometimes does in this funny game of baseball. It's an infield hit and a smile from James. There goes the runner throw from Vasquez not in time. James Altman still second team leading fifth for James Altman guy that stole twenty three in twenty twenty one two out and Betts has walked tripled and scored a run. Drive center field base hit Betts with a two out RBI single Altman in the score and the Dodgers are back in front. Betts has scored one and driven in one. Gallo Kirloff and Correa Gallo for two strikeout on the ground out so I hit well in the center field long run as the Altman he'll look up and out of here. Joey Gallo is tied it up to two with a solo homer and straight away center field Gallo's tenth of the year right in the wheelhouse. So a four pitch walk that loads him up this walk issued by Kobe and now Roberts he just told he just told Smith was with his hand he said don't talk to him and just give me some more time here. So just try to stall long enough and now Roberts is going to make the move and Polanco will bat right handed and Victor Gonzalez finds himself in the fire right away. Bases loaded nobody out a fly ball off the end of the bat and that's only to the corner of the infield and Freddie Freeman's got it for the first out of the six that have been Solano who set up as a pinch hitter for Trevor Larnach Gonzalez deals and strikes him out right handed hitters are now one for 20 against the lefty Gonzalez this year one out away from pulling a magic trick bases loaded to gone in the sixth Gonzalez deals and farmer golf's won the left center field Thompson is there. Victor Gonzalez somehow gets out of it and here to the bases loaded nobody out situation and douse the fire completely. He saw last night how well Castro runs when he stole two bases an eye on him with him representing the go ahead run here in the seventh and the nine hitter Christian Vasquez at the plate and there is dropping one in the right field a base hit Castro will hold up at second front runner goes but he's picked off of the ball is thrown away. Castro will score Vasquez to third base and what looked like a base running mistake for the twins has given them the lead Taylor takes ball for to load the bases and for the second time today Miguel Vargas finds himself at the plate with the bases loaded in two out three one pitch what a take this game is tied second significant bases bases loaded walk in this series the time pass to another rookie and James Alman lifts a fly ball to center field and sends Taylor back on the track at the wall Dodgers take a seven three lead four hundred seven feet over the wall in straightaway center a five run seventh inning so an unsafe situation but not going to mess around here Evan Phillips comes on to pitch. Twins already lost Nick Gordon today on a similar play and he's wearing that guard and again above the guard just below the knee. It's like the same exact spot as Gordon. Starting center fielder starting right footer both leave the game today after fouling balls the top of their shin thirty six thousand four thirty four today Dodger fans in the beautiful sunshine on their feet Dodgers take the series from the twins their sixth consecutive series win and James Alman the hero of this one he had a grand slam to break the tie.