The New York Yankees won their eighth straight game in an 8-5 win over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night, but it may have come at a cost.
After playing five innings and then going through roughly an hour rain delay, Yankees star Juan Soto was pulled due to left forearm soreness.
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The Sporting News is tracking live scoring updates and highlights from the series finale between the Yankees and Twins on Thursday night.
Yankees vs Twins game recap final score
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| MIN | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| NYY | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 8 | 7 | 0 |
Yankees vs Twins: Scoring updates, highlights June 6
Final: Yankees 8, Twins 5
Clay Homes comes on for the save, striking out Max Kepler and allowing a single before getting Carlos Santana to ground out.
Middle of eighth inning: Yankees 8, Twins 5
Kahnle gets a strikeout and a ground out.
Kahnle walks Vazquez, and Margot singles.
Kyle Farmer starts the inning with a strike out
Pitching Change — Tommy Kahnle in for Luke Weaver
End of seventh inning: Yankees 8, Twins 5
Yankees go three up, three down.
Middle of seventh inning: Yankees 8, Twins 5
Web Gem — Anthony Volpe is unstoppable.
Anthony Volpe makes a sparkling play! (Please be okay Juan) pic.twitter.com/nxF4dRDLaU
— Fireside Yankees (@FiresideYankees) June 7, 2024
End of sixth inning: Yankees 8, Twins 5
Anthony Rizzo walked before Gleyber Torres grounds out.
Giancarlo Stanton draws a two-out walk, his second of the night.
Aaron Judge strikes out looking.
Verdugo, who replaced Soto, grounded out to first base.
Middle of sixth inning: Yankees 8, Twins 5
Carlos Correa hits a single before Max Kepler strikes out swinging.
Pitching Change — Luke Weaver comes in for Gonzalez
Ryan Jeffers draws a walk
Christian Vazquez and Manuel Margot both fly out
Pitching Change — Victor Gonzalez in for Ian Hamilton after the delay.
Juan Soto exits the game due to left elbow discomfort.
10:00 p.m. ET — Rain Delay ends.
9:06 p.m. ET — Rain Delay. Tarp comes on the field.
End of fifth inning: Yankees 8, Twins 5
Anthony Volpe strikes out swinging to end the frame.
Yankees 8, Twins 5
Sac Fly — Trent Grisham drives in his third run of the game with a sac fly to right field, scoring Wells.
Trent Grisham with a sac fly to make it 8-5! pic.twitter.com/mAbpAvyvcc
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 7, 2024
Oswaldo Cabrera follows that up with a single of his own, moving Wells to third with one out.
Austin Wells collects his first hit of the night with a single to center.
Gleyber Torres strikes out swinging
Cole Sands pitching for Minnesota
Middle of fifth inning: Yankees 7, Twins 5
Hamilton gets Kyle Farmer to ground into a fielder's choice to end the inning.
Yankees 7, Twins 5
RBI Single — Carlos Santana drives in Kepler with a single to right field
Ian Hamilton in to pitch
Stroman's final batter of the night is a hit-by-pitch against Jose Miranda
Stroman gets Castro to ground out to first, moving Kepler to third with two outs.
Yankees 7, Twins 4
RBI Double — Max Kepler follows that up with a ground rule double.
Yankees 7, Twins 3
Sac Fly — Carlos Correa hits a sac fly to right field, scoring Larnach and moving Kirilloff to third.
Alex Kirilloff doubles to right field, moving Larnach to third base.
Larnach draws a walk to begin the inning.
End of fourth inning: Yankees 7, Twins 2
Anthony Rizzo pops out to shortstop to end the inning.
Yankees 7, Twins 2
RBI Single — Giancarlo Stanton stays hot with an RBI single up the middle to score Judge from third base.
Giancarlo Stanton comes through AGAIN with RISP and it's 7-2 Yankees! pic.twitter.com/JiFcBGDyMX
— Fireside Yankees (@FiresideYankees) June 7, 2024
Yankees 6, Twins 2
Score on Error —Anthony Volpe wreaks havoc, stealing third base and scoring on the wild throw from Christian Vazquez. Judge moves to second on the double steal and third on the throwing error.
Volpe creates CHAOS pic.twitter.com/WKkfFvPEPJ
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) June 7, 2024
Aaron Judge walks on four pitches, giving the Yankees runners on first and second with two outs
Juan Soto pops out to left field
Anthony Volpe beats out an infield single, extending his on-base streak to 32 games, matching Judge.
Trent Grisham leads off the inning with a strike out
Middle of fourth inning: Yankees 5, Twins 2
Stroman works out of the jam with two pop-outs and a fly out to center field.
Jose Miranda follows that up with a single.
Stroman starts out with a hit-by-pitch on Willi Castro.
End of third inning: Yankees 5, Twins 2
Oswaldo Cabrera smokes a ball to right field but Max Kepler makes a nice play to end the inning.
Yankees 5, Twins 2
Sac Fly — Austin Wells follows that up with a sac fly to center field to score Stanton.
Austin Wells adds another! Yanks lead 5-2 pic.twitter.com/dgrzdunnzE
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) June 7, 2024
Yankees 4, Twins 2
RBI Double — Gleyber Torres comes through with double down the right field line, scoring Soto and Judge.
2-run double for Gleyber! pic.twitter.com/mY16tktZGG
— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) June 7, 2024
Anthony Rizzo painfully fouled a ball off his knee on the first pitch. He battled but struck out.
In solidarity, Giancarlo Stanton also works a full-count walk, loading the bases with no outs.
Aaron Judge follows suit, working a full count and then a walk, putting runners on first and second base with no outs. His on-base streak extends to 32 games.
Juan Soto starts the inning off with a walk after working a full count.
Middle of third inning: Yankees 2, Twins 2
Stroman gets revenge on Carlos Correa striking him out on a nasty changeup.
Larnach steals second base after a fly out.
Stroman walks Larnach after the solo home run.
Yankees 2, Twins 2
Home Run — Former Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez, who has a career .364 average against Stroman, takes him deep to left center to begin the third inning.
End of second inning: Yankees 2, Twins 1
Anthony Volpe grounds out to end the inning.
Yankees 2, Twins 1
Home Run — Trent Grisham smokes a ball to right field for a two-run home run. He has three hits this season, and two of them are home runs.
Go ahead, Grish 💪 pic.twitter.com/VZlqWYUg2V
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) June 6, 2024
Austin Wells takes a pitch off the leg.
Gleyber Torres works it to a 2-2 count but strikes out on a 95 mph fastball.
Middle of second inning: Twins 1, Yankees 0
Shortly after, Kyle Farmer flies out to center field.
After working back from 3-0 to a full count, Stroman gives up a double to Carlos Santana.
Stroman gets two quick outs on groundouts against Willi Castro and Jose Miranda.
End of first inning: Twins 1, Yankees 0
Giancarlo Stanton works a walk, but Anthony Rizzo flies out to center field.
Aaron Judge just missed a pitch and flies out to center field.
Juan Soto works a walk.
Anthony Volpe strikes out looking against Pablo Torres.
Middle of first inning: Twins 1, Yankees 0
Stroman gets Max Kepler to fly out to left field to end the inning.
Twins 1, Yankees 0
Home Run — Carlos Correa hits a solo home run to right field with two outs.
Carlos Correa takes Marcus Stroman deep in the first! pic.twitter.com/OIc2sWKdhO
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) June 6, 2024
Marcus Stroman starts off getting Trevor Larnach with a fly out.
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