The Twins and Rays played a hard fought game, punctuated by a series of tappers to the mound resulting in two runs for the Rays in the eighth, and a dramatic Harrison Bader home run to tie it at 4. But Justin Topa couldn't hold the Rays down in the 10th,

The Tampa Bay Rays' blueprint for success is a well-worn tale. Winning a game is usually all about getting good starting pitching, finding

Bader hit a previous Fourth of July homer, in 2021. Friday’s was his second career walk-off hit and first walk-off homer. He became the first Twins batter with two first-pitch home runs in a game since Josh Donaldson did it on June 11, 2021.