A layman would call what Chasen Shreve found before him in the seventh inning a real fixer-upper. Yeah, the Yankees lefty reliever inherited a mess.
The Twins already had put a run across against Chad Green to cut the Yankees lead to 6-4 and had the bases loaded with one out. The lefty-hitting Logan Morrison, off to a slow start but a dangerous, capable sort — with 38 homers last year — awaited.
So the Yankees countered with the lefty Shreve and he struck out Morrison on four pitches, using a swinging-strike splitter to get the inning’s second out.