Jeffers, Bader lead Twins over Mets 6-3

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Jeffers, Bader lead Twins over Mets 6-3

2025-04-16 10:51 Last Updated At：11:01

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ryan Jeffers and Harrison Bader had three hits apiece and Brooks Lee homered on Tuesday as the Minnesota Twins defeated the New York Mets 6-3.

Byron Buxton singled twice and scored two runs for the Twins.

Bailey Ober (1-1) gave up three earned runs on five hits with no walks and five strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings to pick up his first victory since Aug. 9, a span of 13 starts.

Jhoan Durán struck out Francisco Lindor, the potential tying run, to earn his first save of the season.

Lindor’s fourth error in 17 games led to a pair of unearned runs in the third when he misplayed Ty France’s two-out grounder to shortstop.

For the Mets, Pete Alonso and Juan Soto each homered — the second in as many nights for Soto, who hadn't gone deep since the second game of the season.

Tylor Megill (2-2) pitched five innings, giving up four runs — two earned — on eight hits with no walks and three strikeouts.

The Twins scored two runs with two outs in the second on an infield error and an RBI single by Carlos Correa. Harrison Bader’s infield single drove in a run in the fourth.

Buxton’s speed helped the Twins manufacture a run in the fifth. He led off with a single, stole second and moved to third on a groundout.

With the Mets infield pulled in, Buxton broke for home on France’s sharp grounder to second baseman Luisangel Acuña. The throw to the plate was on target but Buxton slid around Luis Torrens’ tag to give the Twins a 4-2 lead.

Lee homered in the seventh to put the Twins up 6-3.

Trailing 5-2 with one out in the seventh, the Mets tried to rally as Mark Vientos singled and moved to third on Torrens’ double. Reliever Cole Sands came on and allowed Jesse Winker’s sacrifice fly, then walked Acuña, but he retired Lindor on a grounder to second to end the threat.

The Twins had a season-high 13 hits.

RHP David Festa (0-0, 0.00) will start for the Twins in Wednesday afternoon’s series finale. RHP Griffin Canning was scratched by the Mets due to illness. The team has not announced a replacement starter.

Pakistan begins 2nd anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year to protect millions of children

2025-04-21 19:56 Last Updated At：20:01

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan began Monday a weeklong second nationwide vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 45 million children from polio, officials said.

According to the World Health Organization, Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the potentially fatal, paralyzing virus hasn’t been stopped,

Since January, Pakistan has reported only six polio cases. Last year, the South Asian country witnessed a surge in polio cases, which jumped to 74, though it reported only one polio case in 2021.

Pakistan’s Health Minister, Mustafa Kamal, has urged parents to cooperate with the medical staff, who visit door-to-door to vaccinate children.

Health workers are often attacked by militants who falsely claim that vaccination efforts are part of a Western plot to sterilize Muslim children.

On Monday, police killed a militant when he opened fire on officers assigned to protect health workers on the polio drive in Azam Warsak, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to local police chief, Alamgir Mahsud. He said all the officers were unharmed.

Since the 1990s, more than 200 polio workers and the police assigned to protect them have been killed in attacks.