Twins vs. Cubs Game Highlights (7/18/26) | MLB Highlights

Jake Arrieta raising the 2016 banner really cool stuff. Great to have the guys from that World Series win in the house. I think any time the 2016 team is around the fans get a look at him. Everybody's happy. It was a great vibe down there and a really cool ceremony. Meanwhile on the mound Matthew Boyd we touched on it earlier since coming back from the knee injuries looked really good. Here's the one. Makes the catch and say appeals off it's out number two and the batter is Josh Bell short hop flag down Swanson tossed the first bell is out and one two three go to twins man. Todd Bradley has been locked in as of late over his last four to five starts he's gone seven innings pitch over his last three out of four starts popped up. Right field Clemens out incomes Clemens Martin and Austin. No cap no problem with two down. It'll bring up Michael Bush. Bush says hello to Anthony Rizzo. You got it this time Riz. That's incredible. I mean the one guy in the ballpark and all of the ball park gets hit too. He sits in left field they hit it to him there. Now he goes to right field. I'll tell you what if Anthony Rizzo keeps sitting up bleachers and the Cubs keep hitting homers he's not going to be allowed to go back home. And isn't it interesting that the Cubs first baseman Rizzo's old position and number three hitter. That's where Anthony used to hit gives the Cubs a one nothing lead here in the first. Well this isn't a one time thing Anthony has signed down as an ambassador. So he'll be around right behind Anthony's got the baseball amazing first major league homer for Moises by a Staros and Anthony Rizzo almost caught it. You know in real time I saw Rizzo trying to make the play on it. I thought could it be. He literally hit it right to him. That's amazing. Oh my God. He played one Rizzo's got a souvenir and the Cubs have a one nothing lead five up and five down for an efficient Matthew Boyd. Hammers one to right field and deep this one towards the bleachers and that ball is gone. A Twins fan catching that ball in row number one in the right field bleachers and Cody Clemens snapping an 0 4 19 and a Twins believe in one one. Yes sir. Cody Clemens earning himself a four seam fastball after laying off two breaking balls in the dirt. Boyd he had to come with that fastball and it was right over the heart of the plate one away. Here's the one one Niko lines one right center field. There's going to be another base hit picking it up on the first bounce is Martin the right fielder Pedro Ramirez rookie designated hitter batting left handed Bradley Beals. And that's in there and a challenge from Ramirez. The pitchers call the strike the batter down here and it's a ball and it's big. That is massive. Here's Dansby Swanson. It's a third left side bobbled recovered late a second on the first day and not in time. So Swanson save Horner to third Ramirez is out. And for now the city continues for the catcher Amaya Swanson. The pitch is outside and low no throw and Dansby with a stolen base and he is a perfect 13 and 0. Now let's see if Amaya can come through and it's second and third tie game line drive base hit left field. Shazam and Horne Swanson make the end of second to run double and it's three one Cubs on top. He got something off that he was able to pull into that left field corner. Both runners are easy to easily score. That's exactly what they need to do. Last night couldn't take advantage of that opportunity. Rory Knight cashing in put them up three one. And here is Pete Armstrong swung on a missed and struck him out. So Bradley fans Petro Armstrong Matthew Boyd back to work as the twins are up in the third now down to see if they can answer back. Kishol adds to it. Opposite field knock lead off man is up for the first time today. It will be up to Jeffers now who fly to center first time up and it's outside ball for it was breaking ball after breaking ball just one four seam fastball that five pitch sequence sequence it was four curve balls. So Jeffers draws the two out walk first one issued by Boyd. Let's see if Josh Bell can capitalize Pata right side Bush and Michael out of the grass makes the catch bell is out second walk in the inning given up by Tosh Bradley and Niko Horner coming up and to score is Suzuki and Horner with an RBI single half to third it's for one and he gets a first pitch and rifles it down the line when he's going right he's staying the other way with the baseball almost impossible to strike out takes that pitch fires it to right field he's fired up Andrew Ramirez the batter first and third two away in the air left field that way it's an automatic costing the Cubs Iranians Horner has to stop at third. We love exit below. We love balls getting scorched but just as much we love when a ball falls in exactly the right spot. The four Ramirez this ball straight down the line. Fabian doing his best to get out of the way. He did a bad read right there. Here is Dan B. Swanson to left field again shallow and makes the sliding catch and saves two more runs runs down five to one work to do against Matthew Boyd Caratini the former club leads all lined in a shallow left coming in Ian Haps slides and makes the catch more of a dive and then a little tumble roll. Sometimes you don't worry about style points. You just make the catch and whatever your body does that's up to your body. Yeah he comes running in catches this ball about you know just a little above his waist as he's coming in and makes the catch two down bases empty now for Cody Clemens going to miss strike three. Matthew Boyd works one two three two away Trevor Warnock at the plate they're up five to one with two away in the fifth popped up push against the top excellent play by Michael Bush as Larnach pops out in foul territory. Rizzo would be proud of that play. I'm sure a bucket list game any Twins fan any baseball fan would be here and do so in the bleachers to third and speared by Brooks Lee. Great play at the hot corner robbing Bregman the lead up double here in the fifth inning what you call quick reflexes from Brooks Lee I got to be honest with you I didn't even pick up the ball off the bat or too quickly away here in the last of the fifth for the Cubs. Nico Horner will dig in and a broken background ball bits it in the left for Nico Horner. That's his third hit of the ballgame. All singles including an RBI single in the third Ramirez pops it up to short and Criley makes the play and the inning is over. Dansby Swanson will lead off the bottom of the sixth inning. The right center field second and he's in the third and blowing slightly out to right center. Dansby hits it. You've got to wonder if Martin running in front of Kishore if that just distract him just enough for that ball to hit off his glove and we got action runner on third. Lettuce gave up the lead triple off the glove of Kishore and now he's got a chance to get Suzuki and get out of the inning still a four run ballgame. We've seen the Twins offense be able to get out of or come back from worse deficits. So as he does just that D-Span well said the Swanson triple but then Mike buckles down to one ball one strike the only run today for the Twins game with Cody Clemens in the second and did Cody Clemens do it again to right field and he's done it again a home run off Caleb field bar so Clemens with two today now 18 this season one shy of his career high and the Twins pulled it within three it's five two and a seven two home runs for Cody Clemens it gets a lefty to left these two home runs who says lefties can hit lefties and Bush draws the walk and that's going to be the second out in the inning. Let's see if Nico can keep his good day going. He is three for three and there's another base hit to right. Stopping at second is Michael Bush and Nico with four hits in the ballgame. Here's Ramirez two men on two down Cubs lead five to five drop base here is making his first start since June 25th. And he's got a pair of RBI hits and RBI double in the third and an RBI single here in the seventh. Oh and we love insurance runs. You know I love more than strikeouts. Tell me a couple of plays. Yeah. Right center field PC the bunch of runners jammed up throw the third terse. It's about as great a double play as you're going to see. He holy cow. And I'm going to tell you this this is a large part to how good PC is in center field. Josh Bell has to hold up to wait to see if he catches it. The next thing you know you got Carantini got Brooks Lee. There's chaos on the base pass a great play by Amaya to make sure that tag. And here we go. Let's double him up boys. One single strike away from nailing this one down Webb. Comes with the champs in the house and the champions gate dedication twenty sixteen will live on forever. And we fly the W here at the ballpark sing that song.