Brooks Lee drove in the game-ending run with a bunt single in the ninth inning as the Minnesota Twins beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-5.

The walk-off win — the 500th win of manager Rocco Baldelli’s managerial career — came on a day when the Twins rode the bullpen from innings one through nine. In place of Bailey Ober, who landed on the injured list earlier in the week, the Twins opted for a bullpen game started by Cole Sands.

The Twins continue to show that you should never count them out of a game. As a result, it seems that anybody writing them off in the playoff chase may have been premature as well. Brooks Lee laid dow