Twins crush Nestor Cortes, Yankees, 8-1, to even series at Target Field

MINNEAPOLIS — He'd never admit it, ballplayers almost never do. And Gio Urshela knows the code.

But beating the Yankees, the team that decided he was expendable last March — that had to feel good, right?

Sweet or not, Urshela got a little revenge on Wednesday, driving home one run and scoring another in the Twins' unlikely 8-1 victory over their biggest nemesis.