Minnesota Twins at Los Angeles Angels: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIN | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| LAA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 0 |
The Story
The Los Angeles Angels walked off the Minnesota Twins 6-5 in eleven innings on September 19, 2026, at Angel Stadium, a result the DiamondIQ model placed at just a 46 percent pre-game home win probability before ultimately settling at 100 percent in favor of Los Angeles. Both clubs finished with eleven hits apiece, though the Angels produced the decisive one when it mattered most. The game moved through a relatively quiet first two innings before Minnesota broke through in the third, and the two teams exchanged runs across the middle frames to produce a tightly contested contest that extended well past regulation.
The pivotal swing of the game came in the bottom of the ninth, when Vaughn Grissom hit a home run off A.J. Minter that shifted win probability by 47.1 percentage points, erasing what had been a Minnesota lead and forcing extra innings. That single swing was the largest WPA event of the night and effectively reset the entire contest. Earlier, Minnesota had absorbed a damaging moment in the bottom of the eighth when Mike Trout grounded into a double play off Kody Funderburk, a play that swung win probability 24.2 points against the Angels and represented the game's biggest negative WPA event. Los Angeles ultimately broke through in the eleventh when Taylor Rogers hit Grissom with a pitch, a 20.0-point WPA moment, before Christian Moore singled home the winning run for a 33.4-point swing to close it out.
Grissom finished as the night's most impactful offensive performer with a cumulative WPA of plus-52.5 percent, while Moore contributed plus-33.4 percent and Denzer Guzman added plus-17.7 percent. On the pitching side, Kody Funderburk led all arms with a plus-24.2 percent WPA contribution, followed by Jeff Hoffman at plus-8.8 percent and Andrew Morris at plus-7.5 percent. The DiamondIQ model leans toward Los Angeles having executed the more consequential plate appearances when the leverage was highest, with Grissom's ninth-inning home run standing as the defining moment of the entire game.