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Minnesota Twins lost sixth in a row

May 11, 2016 By Minnesota News Network

The Baltimore Orioles were packing up to leave the ballpark on Monday night after their game against Minnesota was postponed when manager Buck Showalter heard the familiar crack of the bat in the batting cage.

It was slumping slugger Adam Jones, staying late to try to get his swing going.

Jones broke out of a long slump in a big way, delivering the go-ahead, two-run single in the ninth inning after a towering homer in the fifth to lead the Orioles to a 5-3 victory over the skidding Twins on Tuesday night.

”He wants to be as good as he’s capable of,” Showalter said. ”That’s a feel-good because you know how much it (bothers him). He’s got a great way of not taking himself too seriously, but you know it’s kind of been grinding on him. You know he cares.”

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Jepsen takes loss

Manny Machado also went deep while going 3 for 3 with two walks to raise his batting average to .365, and Zach Britton earned his eighth save for the first-place Orioles. Kevin Jepsen (2-4) intentionally walked Machado in the ninth to get to Jones, who made him pay.

”As long as we keep winning, it doesn’t really matter how it goes as long as the team wins,” Jones said. ”That’s the main objective, the main goal. I’m a team guy, I’m not an I, I, I person. I’m just for the team.”

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Plouffe homered

Trevor Plouffe hit a home run, a double and drove in three runs for the Twins, who have lost six straight games. Jose Berrios gave up three runs on eight hits and struck out six in five innings.

Chris Davis had three hits, Matt Wieters added two hits and an RBI, and Kevin Gausman allowed three runs on five hits and struck out nine in six innings for Baltimore. Darren O’Day (2-0) got the win.

Joe Mauer went 0 for 3 with a walk in his first career game as a leadoff hitter for the Twins.

The series opener on Monday was postponed with bad weather looming in the area, a much-needed break for the Twins after an awful road trip dropped their record to an AL-worst 8-23.

They sent Berrios, their prized prospect who has been up and down in his first stint with the team, to the mound hoping for a long outing. But once again, his pitch count ran high in the early innings and the Orioles got to him in the fifth.

Jones was in a 3-for-26 skid over the last seven games when he followed Machado’s homer with a 443-foot drive over the bullpen in center field to give the Orioles a 3-1 lead. It was just his second homer of the season and first since April 16.

”That’s a lot of frustration out in one swing,” Showalter said. ”That was a lot of pent up, I can tell you that.”

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