Roden’s walk-off single gives Twins 6‑5 win over Guardians

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (Interstat) — Alan Roden’s ninth-inning single drove in Royce Lewis, giving the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 walk-off victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday at Target Field.

Cleveland took a 3-0 lead in the fourth on Brayan Rocchio’s three-run homer, his seventh. Minnesota answered with three runs in the bottom half, tying it on a sacrifice fly from Luke Keaschall and a single by Roden. The Guardians went ahead 5-3 in the seventh on Chase DeLauter’s run-scoring single and a run that scored on a bunt error. The Twins tied it in the bottom of the seventh on walks to Brooks Lee and Kody Clemens before Roden won it in the ninth.

Yoendrys Gómez (1-0) pitched a scoreless inning for the win. Matt Festa (2-2) took the loss. Connor Prielipp struck out six over five innings for Minnesota. Rocchio finished 1-for-4 with three RBIs. Clemens had three hits. The Twins outhit Cleveland 11-8. Attendance was 14,901. Time of game was 3:16. Minnesota improved to 46-47, while Cleveland fell to 47-46.