Baseball: Blue Jays' Yusei Kikuchi has strong outing in loss to Twins

Toronto Blue Jays left-hander Yusei Kikuchi took his third loss of the season after allowing two runs in eight innings against the Minnesota Twins on Friday.Kikuchi (2-3) left with a 2-1 deficit at Rogers Centre, where the Twins won 3-2 after both teams scored one run each in the ninth inning.Carlos Santana hit a solo home run for the Twins to break a 1-all tie in the fifth.Kikuchi held the visitors to four hits while walking none and striking out three in his longest outing of the season."It's a disappointing result," the 32-year-old said. "Yet I believe I can be confident that I get to pi…READ FULL ARTICLE