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\n\n \n\n\"It's my play,” Rosario said. “It's my ball, it's my play. \\[Diaz\\] tried to stop me, but I made the run. When I made the run, I was happy. Maybe I'm out, but then it's my fault.\"\n\nRosario’s aggression appeared to catch cutoff man Adalberto Mondesi by surprise, and after Mondesi double-clutched the throw home, Rosario slid in safely under Martin Maldonado’s tag to tie the game, 1-1.\n\n“I love \\[Rosario’s\\] aggressiveness in general,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “He takes that to all parts of his game. I think we'll get on the same page as far as the way when on the bases and picking up coaches. There will be things we talk about. But overall, I love his aggressiveness.”\n\nIn the bottom of the frame, he recorded his first outfield assist of the season when he threw Maldonado out at second base as the catcher tried to stretch a single into a double. Rosario has twice finished in the American League’s top five in outfield assists, including a fifth-place finish with nine assists last season.
\n\nWe have our first #DontRunOnRosie case of the season! #MNTwins pic.twitter.com/N2trOJVDyK
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) April 3, 2019
\"That's an important thing. If you're not \\[hitting\\], some other way, you find other ways to help the team win,” Rosario said. “That's what I did in that time. I ran through the sign, but I scored a run and helped the team win.\"\n\n**2\\. Rosario shakes off slump to tie the game again** \nRosario’s season-opening slump came to a head in the seventh inning, when he stepped to the plate in a tie game with the bases loaded and none out -- and struck out.\n\n\"I'm not frustrated for the 0-for-14,” Rosario said. “I am when I have big moments. Positions for runs, men on second base or the bases loaded with no out, for example. I struck out.”\n\nThat was part of why he decided to switch things up in the ninth inning by using Gonzalez’s bat -- lighter than his own -- when he strode to the plate with one out and Polanco on second base.\n\n\"After going 0-for-14, I needed a base hit,” Rosario said. “I tried something crazy. I changed my bat up. And I got my base hit.\"\n\nRosario got a first-pitch fastball well off the plate from Ian Kennedy and lined it into left field for his first hit of the season, bringing home Polanco, who had doubled, to eventually send the game to extra innings.
“This is a guy I don't worry about one way, a bit, because his confidence does not waver,” Baldelli said. “It doesn't waver in any parts of his game, any aspect. His personality, it's just there. That part doesn't even cross my mind, how's he doing and things like that. He gets probably more mad than questioning himself.”\n\n**3\\. Cruz takes advantage of reversed call** \nWith runners on first and second and two outs in the 10th inning, Cruz hit a grounder down the third-base line that was originally ruled fair by third-base umpire James Hoye, which resulted in an inning-ending forceout.\n\nCruz said that he had been content to return to the Twins’ dugout without complaint, but after a discussion between Hoye and home-plate umpire Mark Ripperger, the call was reversed to a foul ball, giving Cruz an extra chance.\n\n“It's a difficult play from the dugout to have a really good feel as far as how to handle it, but we certainly would have spent some time talking on the phone \\[about a review\\],” Baldelli said.\n\nCruz took advantage by lining a single up the middle through a shifted infield for his team-leading sixth hit of the season, bringing home Willians Astudillo with the go-ahead run.
\n\nSometimes a foul ball is a second chance. \uD83C\uDFB6#MNTwins #TwinsWin pic.twitter.com/6DNyqDld9F
— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) April 3, 2019
**Buxton sustains contusion after colliding with wall** \n