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Brock Stewart, who surrendered a go-ahead home run in Saturday night's loss at Colorado, has already gotten over the frustration.
The Twins enjoyed a stroll in the ballpark Sunday, waltzing to a 7-1 victory over the walk-happy Rockies. Colorado pitchers issued four leadoff walks — three by starter German Marquez — and Minnesota hit four home runs, denying Colorado a rare three-game sweep at Coors Field.
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He certainly looks ready to return to the #MNTwins. Daniel Zebulon Matthews goes 4.0 shutout innings allowing 1 hit & striking out a career tying high 9. He threw 56 pitches, 38 for strikes. Had an astounding 52% whiff rate. His fastball averaged 97.4 mph, topped out at 98.7 mph pic.twitter.com/pi4JsFNP61
Germán Márquez pitched just three innings for the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, a 7-1 loss to the Minnesota Twins.
With the Twins around 60 percent through the season, Buxton is on pace for a final stat line of about 135 games played, 33 home runs, 25 stolen bases, a .939 OPS, and roughly 6.5 WAR. That production level would put him in truly elite company when comparing across franchise history.