Joe Ryan strikes out season-best 11 as Twins top Angels 5-0 for 3-game series sweep

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Joe Ryan struck out a season-high 11 in seven shutout innings and the Minnesota Twins beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-0 on Sunday for their first three-game win streak since August.

Ryan (2-2) allowed four hits and a walk. The 28-year-old right-hander finished one strikeout shy of his career best. Justin Topa threw two hitless innings to complete the Twins' second shutout of the season. Both have come with Ryan as starter.

Ty France had an RBI double and Ryan Jeffers doubled in two more runs — all in the sixth inning — knocking Angels starter José Soriano (2-4) out of the game. France also knocked in a run in the first with a sacrifice fly and Trevor Larnach added an RBI single in the seventh.

Carlos Correa had a double among his three hits. The 30-year-old shortstop went 6 for 11 in the series and is batting .211.

Soriano gave up four runs, three earned, in his five-plus innings as the Angels lost their third straight and for the fifth time in six games.

Luis Rengifo had two hits for the Angels. Mike Trout batted leadoff for the first time this season and went hitless. Trout, who batted leadoff six times last season, is hitting .170.

Angels first baseman Nolan Schanuel didn’t play after leaving Saturday’s game with a bruised right knee. He is day-to-day.

Twins center fielder Harrison Bader made a running, diving, back-handed catch in the seventh.

The Twins' first series sweep since August was also the team's first against the Angels at Target Field since 2016.

Bailey Ober (2-1, 5.04) pitches for the Twins at Cleveland against Gavin Williams (2-1, 4.15) on Monday. The Angels start Jack Kochanowicz (1-3, 5.47) at Seattle versus Bryce Miller (1-3, 4.21) on Tuesday.

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Minnesota Twins second baseman Edouard Julien (47) tags out Los Angeles Angels' Luis Rengifo, bottom on a stolen base-attempt in the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Minnesota Twins' Trevor Larnach (9) and Ty France (13) score on a double by Ryan Jeffers against the Los Angeles Angels in the sixth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Minnesota Twins' Ryan Jeffers hits a two-RBI double against the Los Angeles Angels in the sixth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Minnesota Twins' Ty France hits an RBI double against the Los Angeles Angels in the sixth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Joe Ryan throws to the Los Angeles Angels in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)