Mickey Gasper drove in a career-high three runs, and Matt Wallner hit his 21st home run of the season, but Minnesota’s bullpen melted down in the seventh inning and the White Sox rallied to sweep a four-game series with a 11-8 victory Thursday at nearly empty Target Field.
Luke Keaschall went 4 for 5 with an RBI and a run scored — the rookie’s first four-hit game — and Taj Bradley pitched in and out of trouble for five innings to leave with a 6-4 lead.
Taj Bradley #26 of the Minnesota Twins delivers a pitch against the Chicago White Sox in the first inning at Target Field on Sept. 04, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)
Gasper made it 7-4 with a run-scoring fielder’s choice against a drawn-in infield in the sixth, but the White Sox posted rocked relievers Travis Adams and Genesis Cabrera for five runs in the seventh inning to earn their fifth straight win.
“We were in a good spot,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “We just couldn’t stop them from scoring.”
The White Sox ripped Twins pitchers for 14 hits, and Colson Montgomery sealed Chicago’s victory with a two-run home run off Noah Davis in the ninth inning.
It was cool and raining at the game’s 6:40 p.m. starting time, and it didn’t clear until shortly before the game got underway at 8:10 p.m. By then, there were few of the announced crowd of 13,188 left in the stadium to see the Twins swept by the team with the American League’s worst record (53-88).
Adams pitched a 1-2-3 sixth inning before running into trouble in the seventh. He allowed back-to-back singles to Michael A. Taylor and Edgar Quero before Kyle Teel hit a four-seam fastball 418 feet, at 113.7 mph, into the right-center bleachers to tie the game, 7-7.
Adams (1-3) then hit Lenyn Sosa with a pitch before being pulled for Cabrera, who hit the first batter he faced and allowed two more runs on a balk and sac fly by Andrew Benintendi to give the White Sox a 9-7 lead.
The Twins blew a 3-1 lead in the ninth inning on Wednesday, losing 4-3.
“We’ve got to close the door at some point and win one of these games,” Baldelli said.
Bradley gave up three runs in the third inning on three hits and a walk, but the Twins scored five in the bottom of the fourth to take the lead. The young right-hander was charged with four earned runs on eight hits and a walk but struck out seven. He gave up a run in the fifth but had done enough for his seventh major league victory.
Gasper was pinch-hitting for Ryan Jeffers, who left the game with a head contusion, when he capped a five-run fourth inning with a two-run single to center off left-hander Tyler Alexander.
Jeffers, who took two baseballs off his helmet in quick succession in the third inning, was evaluated during the game and will be re-evaluated Friday in Kansas City, where the Twins start a three-game series against the Royals.
“Basically, we’re just going to monitor him tomorrow when we get to the ballpark, run him through some sort of workout,” Baldelli said. “I don’t know if it’s a baseball workout or not. But we’ll monitor him and evaluate him and see how he is. So overall, relatively positive, but we’ll see how he is tomorrow.
Gasper fielder’s choice grounder to first with the infield in scored Keaschall in the sixth inning to give the Twins a 7-4 lead.
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The Twins were expected to make a late roster move to get Pablo Lopez, out since June with a shoulder injury, back on the 40-man and active rosters. He’s expected to pitch sometime in Kansas City, possibly as early as Friday.
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