Tampa Bay Rays vs. Minnesota Twins (8:10 pm ET, FS-N)
Tampa Bay Rays vs. Minnesota Twins fight it out in Game 2 (8:10 pm ET, FS-N) on Friday, at Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Rays have a 46-32 home, 26-13 away record whereas the Twins have a 46-36 away record and 25-15 home record. The Twins will try to level the series making it a good bet on baseball.
Against the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins, the Tampa Bay Rays hope an extra-inning win means they are finally putting a dismal June behind them.
They have to feel good about their chances of continuing to build on that trend, with David Price going to the mound. The Rays continue a four-game series against the Twins on Friday and Price will try for his AL-leading 12th win.
On Wednesday, with a 9-4 win over division rival Boston, Tampa Bay (46-32) went 11-14 in June, but closed the month, and then opened July with a 5-4, 10-inning victory over Minnesota (43-36) on Thursday for back-to-back wins for the first time since a three-game winning streak June 6-9.
In the ninth, After Evan Longoria hit a run-scoring double to plate Carl Crawford with the tying run, Willie Aybar drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th.Crawford, in his last three starts has two four-hit games, healthy again after being held out of the lineup last week for three straight games because of a sore left shoulder.
Minnesota in its inaugural season at Target Field dropped to 25-15, leads Detroit by one game in the AL Central. Scott Baker (6-7, 3.97), the right-hander will try to avoid a third straight loss and the Twins now hope that he can end his recent funk as he takes the ball. He has dropped three of four, after allowing season highs of 6 runs and 11 hits.
