CHICAGO — Just when you thought Byron Buxton had lost his sense of the dramatic, he went and made Twins history.
Bored with leadoff homers, too impatient to wait for a walk-off, Buxton provided his now-standard home run against the White Sox in the middle of Monday's game. Ho-hum. He's only homered in six straight meetings with Chicago.
But once the White Sox tied the score two innings later and threatened to take the lead, Buxton pulled off something even more breathtaking: He became the second outfielder in Twins history ever to start a triple play.
