Call it the Joe Ryan flu game. Ryan, whose scheduled start was pushed after he fell violently ill, pitched six innings of one-run ball to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants, their seventh straight, Saturday night at Target Field in Minneapolis.

You hate to take joy out of other people’s suffering, but the Twins probably wouldn’t mind if Joe Ryan’s flu bug hung around awhile. “I felt horrible,” Ryan said Saturday night after pitching six shutdown innings against the Giants and leading the Twins to their seventh consecutive victory,