White Sox rally to beat Twins, 6-5, in game with plenty of up-and-down action

Phil Miller, The Minnesota Star Tribune on Sep 1, 2025

Published in Baseball

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MINNEAPOLIS — Nobody said playing out the string had to be boring.

The Twins and White Sox, carrying 162 losses between them with a month to go, played a Labor Day game irrelevant to the playoff races but chock full of fielding mistakes, base-running head-scratchers, and a roster’s worth of pitchers only marginally effective. They were rewarded with a back-and-forth contest that the White Sox won with a pair of eighth-inning doubles off the wall in right-center, 6-5 at Target Field.

It was the Twins’ third consecutive loss to their AL Central rivals, something that, given Chicago’s 50-88 record, is not easy to do.

Brooks Baldwin, the White Sox’s ninth-place hitter, doubled home Bryan Ramos with the tying run, and Mike Tauchman followed with another double to nearly the same spot off Justin Topa, scoring Baldwin with the game-winner.

Bailey Ober pitched five innings for the Twins, giving up four runs, including home runs by Colson Montgomery and Chase Meidroth. Monday’s game was the Twins’ 12th loss in Ober’s last 13 starts.

But the Twins rallied to tied the score, first by loading the bases on a Curtis Mead error at third base and back-to-back walks by Chicago opener Fraser Ellard. Wikelman González relieved him and walked Byron Buxton to force in a run.

Buxton scored a two-out run by himself in the fourth inning, hitting a double to center, then advancing to third on a wild pitch. When catcher Kyle Teel’s throw to third sailed into left field, Buxton scored.

Two innings later, Royce Lewis homered for the second time in four days, pulling the Twins within a run.

It’s been a busy holiday weekend for Buxton, who seems to make Twins history on a daily basis. This time, after his bases-loaded walk in the second inning, he hit a medium-depth fly ball to left field in the sixth inning, far enough for pinch-runner DaShawn Keirsey to tag up and score the tying run.

That’s two runs batted in, a ho-hum nothing-new day for Buxton — which is sort of the point. It was Buxton’s fifth consecutive game with two RBIs, a surprisingly extraordinary feat. Only Hall of Famers Harmon Killebrew (in 1962) and Paul Molitor (in 1996) have ever had a streak of five straight games with two or more RBIs for the Twins.