ATLANTA – Sonny Gray didn't bother turning his head when Marcell Ozuna connected with a fastball that caught too much of the plate in the seventh inning Monday.
Neither did Emilio Pagán when a splitter didn't split against Ronald Acuña Jr.
The Twins needed near perfection from their pitchers in a game that pitted Spencer Strider, baseball's top strikeout artist, against an offense that leads the league in strikeouts by a sizable margin. Predictably, Twins hitters struck out a lot.
