Twins win as Dean Kremer dominates former team

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Final​

Twins 9, Orioles 5

Starting pitcher performance​

Just 10 days after the Orioles dealt Dean Kremer to the Twins ahead of the trade deadline, the veteran starter turned in his best outing of the season — against his former teammates.

Facing the team that he had pitched for for parts of the past seven seasons, Kremer allowed just one hit and one run across seven innings, marking his longest outing of the season thus far.

That one hit wasn’t hit hard — just 52.6 miles per hour off Jackson Holliday’s bat — and didn’t travel far. It came in the fourth inning and shortly after, Holliday broke for second, getting himself caught in a rundown long enough to let shortstop Gunnar Henderson, who had walked earlier in the inning, score from third.

But that was all the Orioles could manage against Kremer, who struck out seven in his outing and allowed very little hard contact in his first start as a Twin at Target Field.

Since the trade, Kremer has now given up just two runs on four hits in 12 innings pitched across to starts.

Player of the Game​

Both Kremer and Austin Martin, who has had a tough go of it offensively of late, turned in standout performances on Monday.

Martin, who recorded his first-career four-hit game on Monday, got the Twins on the board in the third inning with his first home run since May 22.

That was one of three runs that he scored in the game, scoring once in the seventh inning as part of the Twins’ five-run rally and again in the eighth as part of a two-run inning.

He finished a triple shy of the cycle.

Key moment​

The Twins held an edge from the fourth inning onward with Kaelen Culpepper’s sacrifice fly giving them a one-run lead that they held through the middle innings of the game.

But they broke through in the seventh inning, an inning which began with an infield single from Ryan Kreidler and a bunt from Martin that catcher Carlos Narváez picked up and threw into right field.

That prompted the Orioles to bring the infield in, after which catcher Ryan Jeffers sent a single past a diving Henderson for a pair of runs. After the Twins’ next two batters reached, Josh Bell hit a three-run blast, fully breaking the game open.

Up next​

Bailey Ober (7-3, 4.45 ERA) will take the ball on Tuesday in the second game of the series against the Baltimore Orioles. He will be opposed by right-hander Brandon Young (8-3, 3.43 ERA).

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