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Clutch Carlos Correa leads Twins to another win at Yankee Stadium

Correa homered and doubled in the sixth and eighth innings, respectively, to bring the Twins the lead.

Joe Nelson

Clutch Carlos Correa leads Twins to another win at Yankee Stadium
Clutch Carlos Correa leads Twins to another win at Yankee Stadium /

Carlos Correa homered and had the go-ahead two-run double to lead the Minnesota Twins (10-4) over the New York Yankees (8-6) 4-3 Friday night at Yankee Stadium. 

The game didn't start great for the Twins as Louie Varland, the young right-hander from St. Paul who was called up from Triple-A to start in place of Kenta Maeda, allowed a leadoff homer to Anthony Volpe and then two pitches later Aaron Judge took him deep for a quick 2-0 Yankees lead. 

But Varland settled down and Minnesota fought back with with a solo homer by Correa in the sixth inning to make it a 2-1 game. 

Giancarlo Stanton ripped a homer off Varland in the bottom of the sixth to give New York a 3-1 lead, but Kyle Garlick's solo homer off Nester Cortes again cut the Yankee lead to one at 3-2. 

Then in the eighth inning, Michael A. Taylor, who homered twice in Thursday's game, led off with a soft liner for a single to right field, followed by a Byron Buxton walk to put two the go-ahead run at first base with Correa at the plate and the superstar shortstop delivered with a sharp double down the right field line for a 4-3 Twins lead. 

Varland pitched six innings and allowed three runs while striking out eight. Jhoan Duran allowed a leadoff single in the ninth before inducing a double-play grounder and then got Willie Calhoun to pop out to end the game. 

This is the fastest Minnesota has reached 10 wins since the 2020 COVID-shortened season when they started 10-2. The last time they started a season 10-4 in a non-COVID year was 2010 when they also won 10 of 14 games to begin the season. 

Up next: Twins vs. Yankees, Saturday at 12:05 p.m. ET. 

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Joe Nelson
JOE NELSON

Title: Bring Me The Sports co-owner, editor Email: joe@bringmethenews.com Twitter: @JoeBMTN Education: Southwest Minnesota State University Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Expertise: All things Minnesota sports Nelson has covered Minnesota sports for two decades, starting his media career in sports radio. He worked at small market Minnesota stations in Marshall and St. Cloud before joining one of the nation's highest-rated sports stations, KFAN-FM 100.3 in the Twin Cities. There, he was the producer of the top-rated mid-morning sports show with Minnesota Vikings announcer Paul Allen.  His radio experience helped blossom a career as a sports writer, joining Minneapolis-based Bring Me The News in 2011.  Nelson and Adam Uren became co-owners of Bring Me The News in 2018 and have since more than tripled the site's traffic and launched Bring Me The Sports in cooperation with the Sports Illustrated/FanNation umbrella. Nelson has covered the Super Bowl and numerous training camps, NFL combines, the MLB All-Star Game and Minnesota playoff games, in addition to the day-to-day happenings on and off the field of play.  Nelson also has extensive knowledge of non-sports subjects, including news and weather. He works closely with Bring Me The News meteorologist Sven Sundgaard to produce a bevy of weather and climate information for Minnesota readers.  Nelson helped launch and manage the Bring Me The News Radio Network, which provided more than 50 radio stations around Minnesota with daily news, sports and weather reports from 2011-17. 

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