KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three games into the season, and the Twins are already getting the full Joey Gallo Experience.
The game's most drastic all-or-nothing hitter opened the season 0-for-6 with four strikeouts in the season's first two games, though he played strong defense at first base. On Sunday, though, Herculean Joey made his first appearance, crashing a double off the right-field wall and two home runs far, far over it, powering the Twins to a 7-4 victory over the Royals, and a sweep of their season-opening series at Kauffman Stadium.
If Gallo's good days and bad are an unpredictable ruckus, Joe Ryan's success against the Royals is about as surefire as baseball gets. The Twins' young righthander allowed only one run and three hits over six innings this time — and it rates among his worst starts against his Kansas City lapdogs.
