Major League Baseball
Minnesota 6, Cleveland 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Saturday, July 13, 2019
Where: Progressive Field, Cleveland, Ohio
Temperature: 83°
Umpires: Home - Gabe Morales, 1B - Ron Kulpa, 2B - Marty Foster, 3B - Jerry Meals
Attendance: 32277

Max Kepler homered twice to continue his recent mastery of Trevor Bauer as the visiting Minnesota Twins recorded a 6-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday.

Kepler, who went deep three times off Bauer in Minnesota's 5-4 win on June 6, homered to lead off Saturday's game before belting a solo shot in the second inning.

Rookie Jake Cave homered and drove in three runs and Jake Odorizzi (11-4) tossed 5 1/3 strong innings for the Twins, who have won five of eight contests in the season series to move 7 1/2 games ahead of second-place Cleveland in the American League Central.

Jose Ramirez belted a solo homer and rookie Bobby Bradley went deep for the first time in his career for the Indians, who have lost two in a row after entering the All-Star break on a major-league-best 21-8 run.

Kepler didn't wait long to renew acquaintances with Bauer (8-7), as the 26-year-old hit a 2-0 fastball over the wall in right field for his fourth career leadoff homer.

Cave doubled the advantage to lead off the second inning by sending a 3-2 fastball over the wall in left field for his second homer of the season.

After Byron Buxton flied out, Kepler launched an 0-1 knuckle-curveball just over the wall in right-center field to give Minnesota a 3-0 lead. The homer was Kepler's team-leading 23rd of the season and 79th of his career, with 13 hit against the Indians.

Ramirez trimmed the deficit to two runs in the bottom of inning after sending a 1-0 fastball from Odorizzi over the wall in right field.

Odorizzi rebounded after Ramirez's third homer in five games to allow just one run on three hits in his 89-pitch outing.

Bradley jumped on a 3-2 fastball from Tyler Duffey for a 457-foot homer to bring Cleveland within one run at 3-2 in the seventh inning, but Minnesota answered in the top of the eighth.

Luis Arraez and Jonathan Schoop singled to lead off the inning before Cave plated them both with a double down the right field line.

Marwin Gonzalez capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Minnesota   Cleveland
Jake Odorizzi Player Trevor Bauer
Win W/L Loss
5.1 IP 6.0
2 Strikeouts 11
3 Hits 6
1.69 ERA 4.50
Hitting
Minnesota   Cleveland
Jorge Polanco Player Greg Allen
3 Hits 1
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 1
.600 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Minnesota 11 3 21 .297 21 15 6 3 0 0
Cleveland 5 2 11 .167 10 6 2 2 0 1