One thing that happened, Buxton sounded a little embarrassed to admit, is that he thought he was in danger of being thrown out on the bases when Ty France singled on a shallow fly ball to left. Buxton feared left fielder Jose Altuve might catch it, so he only went halfway to third.
“I thought he deked me, I ain’t gonna lie,” Buxton said. Suddenly, he realized, “Oh, it’s going to drop. But by then, I was going backwards,” he said. “So my biggest goal was just not to let him throw me out at third base.”
Instead, Altuve dropped the ball as he tried to throw it, and Buxton raced home with the Twins’ first run. Five more scored in the inning.
“Lot of pride. I wouldn’t say I’m the Energizer Bunny, but when it starts, it kind of comes in bunches,” Buxton said of kick-starting the rally. “When we do what we know what we’re capable of doing, we put together those solid at-bats, and it leads to that. So it’s fun.”
It takes a lot more than nine runs and three homers to shake Chris Paddack’s confidence. He intends to prove it Sunday.
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