For the first half of Tuesday night’s game, it looked destined to be a blowout, an uncompetitive ballgame between two teams that have historically played many of those. The New York Yankees had chased Twins starting pitcher Zebby Matthews early and built up a nine-run lead by the time the fifth inning came around.

But the Twins wouldn’t roll over.

Though their comeback attempt fell just short, the Twins managed to make a game out of it before falling 10-9 to the Yankees in the second game of the series at Target Field.

“We’ve got some guys that just, they refused to stop playing hard and want to win at all costs,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “You want the win at the back end of this, for sure. But I fully enjoyed watching our guys compete out there and do what they did. That was fantas

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