“The combination of those two things didn’t put me in a good spot,” Larnach said. “I completely own that. It’s baseball, man, it happens. Obviously, I don’t want it to happen. That’s on me, that entire inning. I’m definitely going to say that to Fundy — I already did, but to reiterate that, that’s on me.”
Six pitches after the two-run misplay in left field, Larnach stood near the same area, leapt again and watched Danny Jansen’s fly ball drop beyond his glove for a two-run homer.
“We were right there in this game,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “Clearly not our best offensive effort, but we hit some balls hard. Got almost nothing out of the line drives we hit. … That’s probably the first part of it because you have to score to win.”
The Twins have scored three or fewer runs in four of their past five games. Rays starter Zack Littell, who pitched for the Twins from 2018-20, yielded three hits and one run across 6 ⅓ innings against his former team.
