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Wednesday, Apr. 5 8:05pm ET
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Matt Lawton's three-run homer off Rick White with nobody out in the ninth inning lifted the Minnesota Twins to a 10-7 victory over the stunned Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Wednesday night. Lawton's first homer capped a comeback that began with the Twins down 7-1 with just six outs to go. It was the 11th time the Twins had overcome a six-run deficit. White (0-1) gave up singles to Todd Walker and Cristian Guzman before Lawton's 417-foot shot to right field made a winner of Eddie Guardado (1-0), who struck out two in one inning of work. It was the second come-from-behind victory for the Twins in 24 hours. On Tuesday night, the Twins had a two-run ninth-inning rally to beat Tampa Bay. Esteban Yan made the most of his promotion to Tampa Bay's starting rotation, scattering three hits in seven innings and leaving his bullpen a 7-1 lead that it frittered away in the eighth. Yan, who spent his first two seasons with Tampa Bay in the bullpen, gave up an unearned run, walked one and struck out three. The Devil Rays were cruising with a 7-1 lead before the bullpen surrendered six runs in the eighth. Butch Huskey hit a run-scoring double off Dave Eiland, bringing on Jim Morris, who surrendered an RBI single to Corey Koskie. That made it 7-3 and the Devil Rays summoned Albie Lopez, who loaded the bases by walking Ron Coomer before Jacque Jones' infield single made it 7-4. Pinch-hitter Midre Cummings hit a three-run double that barely eluded the grasp of Dave Martinez in shallow right field. Lopez struck out pinch-hitter David Ortiz to end the inning. Sean Bergman's first start for the Twins lasted all of three innings as he allowed five earned runs on seven hits, including Kevin Stocker's three-run homer on a two-out, two-strike pitch in the third that gave Tampa Bay a 5-1 lead. Bergman also gave up RBI singles to Miguel Cairo in the second and Greg Vaughn in the third. LaTroy Hawkins surrendered RBI singles to John Flaherty and Martinez in four innings of relief. Hawkins lost his spot in the rotation to rookie John Santana with several poor performances in the spring. Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first when Todd Walker reached on a two-base error by Fred McGriff and scored on Matt Lawton's single. Game notesThe game drew just 7,089, just above the 7,020 attendance on Tuesday. ... Tampa Bay signed Ozzie Guillen, released by Atlanta last week, to a one-year contract. The three-time All-Star will join the team for Friday's home opener against Cleveland. ... Santana, making the jump from Class A, will start night at Kansas City. ... Hawkins had to jump to avoid McGriff's twirling broken bat on a fourth-inning groundout. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Tampa Bay Clubhouse Minnesota Clubhouse Devil Rays go fishing, sign veteran SS Guillen
RECAPS Chi. White Sox 12 Texas 8
Minnesota 10
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