Major League Baseball
Minnesota 5, NY Mets 2
When: 8:10 PM ET, Friday, September 8, 2023
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature: 75°
Umpires: Home - Cory Blaser, 1B - Ron Kulpa, 2B - Jansen Visconti, 3B - Carlos Torres
Attendance: 26154

Carlos Correa homered and doubled to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 5-2 victory over the New York Mets in the opening game of a three-game series on Friday night in Minneapolis.

Royce Lewis went 2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs and a run for Minnesota (74-67), which maintained its 6 1/2-game American League Central lead over the Guardians. Cleveland (68-74) beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-3 later Friday night.

Caleb Thielbar (3-1) pitched a scoreless inning of relief with two strikeouts to pick up the win. Jhoan Duran also struck out two while pitching around a leadoff walk in the ninth to garner his 25th save.

Francisco Lindor's ground-rule double drove in two runs and Pete Alonso also doubled and walked for New York (64-76). Sean Reid-Foley (0-1) took the loss after allowing three runs on two hits and a walk in two-thirds of an inning.

Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Jorge Polanco walked and scored on Lewis' double down the left field line.

New York took a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning. Francisco Alvarez led off with a walk and advanced to third on Alonso's line-drive double off the bottom of the left field wall. Lindor then drove in both runners with a ground-rule double down the right field line.

The Twins tied it 2-2 in the bottom of the fourth on Correa's 18th home run of the season, a 439-foot line drive into the second deck in left-center that had an exit velocity of 114.2 mph.

Minnesota parlayed four hits and a walk into three runs and a 5-2 lead in the seventh. Matt Wallner led off with a walk and pinch runner Andrew Stevenson advanced to second on an infield single by Willi Castro.

Stevenson scored the go-ahead run on a double steal when Alvarez threw wildly past third for an error. Two outs later, Lewis lined a double off the center field fence to drive in Castro. Max Kepler then singled in Lewis.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Mets   Minnesota
Kodai Senga Player Dallas Keuchel
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.0 IP 5.0
5 Strikeouts 6
4 Hits 3
3.00 ERA 3.60
Hitting
NY Mets   Minnesota
Tim Locastro Player Carlos Correa
1 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 1
1 TB 6
.500 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
NY Mets 4 0 6 .133 9 11 2 3 0 1
Minnesota 8 1 14 .258 14 8 4 5 2 0