Gibson pitches 5 strong innings, Twins top Rays 8-1

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Kyle Gibson had another strong outing Thursday, allowing just four hits and one run in five innings with no walks and five strikeouts to help the Minnesota Twins to an 8-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.



It was Gibson's longest outing of the spring. The veteran threw 66 pitches in his fourth start, 47 of them for strikes.

Tyler Kinley pitched one perfect inning, followed by Ryan Pressley, who logged two perfect innings. Jake Reed allowed also pitched one scoreless. Erick Aybar scored two on a triple in the second inning to get the Twins on the board. Chris Heisey scored Aybar on a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.

The Rays scored their only run in the fourth. Brock Stassi's single in the sixth scored Ryan LaMerre, before LaMonte Wade and Edgar Corcino scored on a fielding error in the eighth. Nick Buss scored on Jordan Pacheco's ground-rule double in the eighth.