Bailey Ober admits he was a little surprised when Rocco Baldelli told him, after five innings and only 69 pitches, that his outing was over on Monday afternoon. But with “where their lineup was falling and the way our bullpen was set up, I thought it was the best thing for us to go out there and win the game,” the manager said.

And for a while, it looked like the early hook might pay off.

The Twins rallied in the sixth inning for a pair of runs and tacked on another one in the seventh inning, using a Brooks Lee single to left to break open a tied game.

But in the eighth, consecutive doubles from Brooks Baldwin and Mike Tauchman added up to a pair of runs for Chicago, sinking the Twins in their 6-5 loss to the Chicago White Sox in the series opener at Target Field.

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