Twins’ Carlos Correa, Matt Wallner exit game against Mets because of injuries

The Twins already have enough trouble scoring runs consistently, and within five innings during Tuesday night’s 6-3 win over the New York Mets, they lost Carlos Correa and Matt Wallner to injuries.

Correa fouled a pitch during a fifth-inning at-bat and immediately started shaking his left wrist.

“Since late last year I’ve been dealing with it,” Correa said. “We did an MRI last year on it and it didn’t show anything too serious. It’s just about keeping it strong and making sure that it’s stable.”

Brooks Lee finished Correa’s at-bat, lining out to shortstop, and Willi Castro moved to shortstop.

Wallner exited in the first inning. He took a check swing on a fastball in a 3-0 count and reached on an infield single when he beat out a throw from New York Mets third baseman Mark Vientos. Wallner took a few awkward steps after crossing the first base bag.

After a short conversation with head trainer Nick Paparesta and manager Rocco Baldelli, Wallner walked off the field. The Twins announced he exited with left hamstring tightness, and he was replaced by DaShawn Keirsey Jr.

“Just tight,” Wallner said. “It’s not painful so that’s good, I guess. I really don’t know because I’ve never done anything similar to that.”

Before Jose Miranda appeared in a game with Class AAA St. Paul, demoted to the minor leagues Sunday, he was placed on the 7-day minor league injured list Tuesday with a left hand strain.

He sustained the injury during the Saints’ off day Monday shopping at Target. A case of water slipped from his grasp, and he felt pain when he re-grabbed it before it fell.

Miranda was sent to the minor leagues after he batted .167 with one extra-base hit in 36 at-bats, totaling zero walks and 13 strikeouts. He made an embarrassing baserunning blunder in last Saturday’s 4-0 loss, tagged out trotting to the dugout after he was ruled safe at second base in the eighth inning.

When the Twins played in Kansas City last week, Harrison Bader spent one morning at the Negro League Museum.

Bader visited the museum once beforehand, but he hadn’t played in Kansas City since 2022. It wasn’t lost on Bader he would don No. 42, like all players, about a week later to honor Jackie Robinson.

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The Twins had four Black players on their Opening Day roster, tied for the most among any team. Seventy-eight years after Robinson integrated the sport, 6% of the league’s players are African American, which represented an increase (5.7% last year) for the first time since 2018.

“My father talked about Jackie Robinson and the history of baseball my entire life, so I grew up in it,” said Bader, whose parents grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. “My love and admiration for not only Black baseball players, Jackie Robinson, the Negro Leagues, and understanding the history is extremely high. I love this day for so many reasons and I’m glad we get to do it.”

* Reliever Brock Stewart (hamstring) started a rehab assignment at Class A Fort Myers on Tuesday, retiring two of the three batters he faced in 17 pitches. He tallied two strikeouts, sitting at 96 mph with his fastball.

* The Twins signed righthander Tyler Beede to a minor league contract Tuesday and assigned him to Class AAA. Beede, 31, made 13 relief appearances for the Cleveland Guardians last year and posted an 8.36 ERA across 14 innings.

* One day after Twins pitchers committed two throwing errors, the team’s pitching staff conducted fielding drills before batting practice Tuesday. “It was on the calendar for about a week,” Baldelli insisted. “Doesn’t look like it was pre-planned, but it was pre-planned.”

* Zebby Matthews struck out seven, giving up four hits and one earned run in five innings as the St. Paul Saints beat the Iowa Cubs 2-1 in Des Moines Tuesday. Travis Adams pitched four shutout innings to earn his first save.