Steven Kwan homered to lead off the game, Tanner Bibee had seven strikeouts in 6 2/3 strong innings, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Minnesota Twins 9-2 on Sunday to pull within a half-game of the American League Central-leading Chicago White Sox.

The kids are here. Emmanuel Rodriguez’s arrival in the big leagues — punctuated by a home run in his first major league at-bat Saturday — means the Twins now have their top position prospects together at Target Field,

That stretch has come and gone, and with it, so have almost all the Twins’ playoff hopes, which were slim to begin with. The Twins concluded it with a 9-2 loss to the Guardians, placing them 5 1/2 games back of Cleveland, which currently holds the third wild card with just 13 games left to play.

Jo Adell reached Ryan for Homer No. 2 in the third inning. The 451-foot drive hit the third deck in left field. The last Cleveland player to homer in that vicinity of Target Field was Mike Napoli in 2016. It was Adell’s 21st homer of the season and his fifth with Cleveland since being acquired at the trade deadline.

The Guardians jumped all over a struggling Joe Ryan, and Tanner Bibee shut down the Twins lineup as the Guardians cruised to a 9-2 victory to take the series at Target Field.

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Tanner Bibee (5-15, 4.22 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 133 strikeouts); Twins: Joe Ryan (6-9, 4.10 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 145 strikeouts) BOTTOM LINE: Both the Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Guardians are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.

MINNEAPOLIS — Rookie right-hander Franco Aleman picked a bad time to have a bad inning. Aleman, with the Guardians just a half game out of first place in the AL Central, allowed four runs on five hits in the third inning Saturday in a 4-3 loss to the Twins.

For the vast majority of Minnesota sports history, the Twins and Vikings shared a home—first Metropolitan Stadium, then the Metrodome. While the Twins of course moved to their current digs in 2010, the Purple hung on under the Teflon ceiling through 2013 before breaking into the (U.S.) Bank.

While games don't necessarily fall solely on one player, right-handed rookie reliever Franco Aleman played a major role in the loss to the Twins. He entered in the third frame, going just 0.2 while giving up five hits,