MINNEAPOLIS – Weird afternoon in Minny. A couple of bitingly cool days have given way to warmer temperatures, up to 18 C, and the ball was flying at Target Field. There were strange choppers in the infield, including Lenyn Sosa’s go-ahead RBI infield single on a pitch maybe six inches off the dirt, rockets flying to the outfield and an errant slider that incredibly clipped George Springer on the same left foot in which he has a broken big toe.

Amid the chaos, Dylan Cease logged seven innings for the first time since joining the Toronto Blue Jays, keeping a game that was off-the-rails on track just enough for the offence to grind out an eighth-run eighth in an 11-4 thumping of the Minnesota Twins.

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