Yankees' Andujar set to return to face Twins

Historically, wins are difficult for the Minnesota Twins to attain at Yankee Stadium.

On Sunday, the Twins have a chance for a rare series win against the Yankees in New York when they conclude a three-game series.

The Twins are in position to get their first series win at Yankee Stadium since May 30-June 1, 2014, after evening the series with a 7-3 victory on Saturday. They rebounded from Friday's 6-3 loss by snapping an eight-game regular-season losing streak in New York when Mitch Garver, C.J. Cron and Nelson Cruz homered while Jonathan Schoop added an RBI single.

Schoop, Cron and Cruz are in their first seasons with the Twins and have hardly endured some of the losses in New York. The Twins are 10-26 in the current Yankee Stadium, but at 20-11 they are off to their best 31-game start since the 2010 season (also 20-11), a year which ended with a loss to the Yankees in New York in the Division Series.

"We're pretty unfazed by a lot of this stuff," Twins starter Jake Odorizzi said Saturday. "So you can have a clunker and then you come back and play a really good game in a tough place to play. Historically, we haven't played too well here, before my time and even last year. So, it's good to finally get that win that we've been searching for, I think, three years -- whatever it's been, three or four years. Tomorrow's another day, we need to get another one, win the series."

If the Twins are going to get their third series win at the current Yankee Stadium, they will have to wait at least three hours for the first pitch. The game was projected to start at 1:05 pm ET but was pushed back to 4:05 ET because of expected heavy rains.

The Yankees head into Sunday with 12 wins in their last 17 games and will be trying to avert consecutive home losses to the Twins for the first time since July 13-14, 2013.

Yankees designated hitter Gary Sanchez homered and has five of his 11 homers since returning April 23 with a calf injury. Miguel Andujar started at third base Saturday after missing 28 games with a right shoulder injury.

"I'm feeling good right now," Sánchez said through an interpreter. "It's about making adjustments, and I've been able to do that, staying away from swinging at bad pitches. I'm looking to keep the consistency going."

Andujar went 1-for-3 and made two errors at third but with the strong possibility of a wet field, he may be the designated hitter Sunday.

New York's Domingo German will attempt to join Tampa Bay's Tyler Glasnow as the second six-game winner in the majors when he pitches Sunday. He improved to 5-1 last Sunday when he allowed four runs on five hits over six innings in an 11-5 victory at San Francisco.

Michael Pineda will start for the Twins and is coming off three straight rocky outings that have raised his ERA from 3.00 to 6.21. He allowed five runs in five innings in an 11-0 loss to Houston and has allowed 15 runs in his last three outings.

Pineda pitched for the Yankees from 2014 to 2017 and was 31-31 with a 4.16 ERA in 89 starts. He had his time with the Yankees cut short by undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2017 and is pitching at Yankee Stadium for the first time since July 5, 2017.

--Field Level Media