Complex sentence: The Twins had their first opportunity in the bottom of the third inning when Dan Gladden doubled and advanced to third on a flyout by Chuck Knoblauch, but Smoltz struck out Puckett to end the inning.
Split into simpler sentences: The Twins had their first opportunity in the bottom of the third inning, when Dan Gladden doubled and advanced to third on a flyout by Chuck Knoblauch. But Smoltz struck out Puckett to end the inning.