Twins use hot start to dispatch Athletics in first game of doubleheader

Carlos Correa, Royce Lewis and Carlos Santana all homered in the victory.

The Twins couldn’t have gotten off to a much better start to their doubleheader against the Oakland Athletics Sunday afternoon at Target Field in downtown Minneapolis.

After Manny Margot drew a leadoff walk, Correa hit a 393-foot, two-run shot off a fastball from Athletics starter JP Sears. The next at-bat, Lewis swung at the first pitch he saw and carried it 380 feet into right field to give the Twins an early 3-0 lead, one they'd never surrender. After Cameron's homer cut it to 4-1 in the seventh inning, the Twins answered right back in the bottom of the frame when Carlos Santana hit a two-run homer 405 feet into center field.

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