San Diego Padres at Minnesota Twins

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San Diego Padres

76-60, 33-38 Away

Final
12 - 3

Minnesota Twins

61-74, 34-32 Home

Díaz homers twice as Padres beat Twins 12-3

San Diego Padres vs. Minnesota Twins: Game Highlights

Ramón Laureano also homered for San Diego, which scored 11 runs against Minnesota relievers.

Manny Machado had two hits to top 1,000 with the Padres. He had an RBI single in the Padres' seven-run seventh inning that gave the Padres a 10-3 lead.

Byron Buxton homered and James Outman and Trevor Larnach each had two hits for the Twins.

Reliever Adrian Morejon (11-4) pitched a scoreless sixth inning to pick up the win for the Padres, who began the day two games behind the first-place Dodgers in the AL West and two games behind the Cubs for the top NL wild-card spot.

Twins starter Taj Bradley allowed just one run and one hit over five innings, and Buxton's two-run homer off Nick Pivetta gave Minnesota a 3-1 lead after five.

But reliever Mick Abel (2-4) — one of the Twins' key acquisitions in their flurry of deadline-day trades — quickly gave that lead back as the Padres used three hits, a walk and an error to score twice in the sixth to tie the score.

Abel then allowed four consecutive singles to start the seventh before he was pulled. The Padres went on to score seven runs in the inning, capped by Díaz's second home run of the night.

Laureano hit a two-run homer in the eighth.

Key moment With the Twins leading 3-1, Luis Arraez led off the sixth with a routine ground ball that shortstop Brooks Lee bobbled for an error. That opened the door for San Diego's tying rally.

Key stat One night after joining the 20 homers-20 steals club for the first time in his career, Buxton tied his career high with his 28th home run of the season.

Up next Twins RHP Joe Ryan (12-7, 3.22 ERA) will start in Sunday's series finale. The Padres have yet to name a starting pitcher.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Lewis popped out to first.
	9th Inning	Clemens flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Gasper fouled out to first.
	9th Inning	Jacob relieved Estrada
	9th Inning	O'Hearn flied out to center.
	9th Inning	McCoy flied out to center.

Statistics

SD		MIN
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
12	Ground Balls	13
9	Strikeouts	7
12	Runs Batted In	3
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
14	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	2
7	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
12	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
41	At Bats	33
3	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
23	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
21	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
226	Pitches	136
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
24	Total Bases	8
49	Plate Appearances	34
486.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	1
10.3	Runs Created	1.3
.341	Batting Average	.152
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.585	Slugging Percentage	.242
.415	Secondary Average	.182
.438	On Base Percentage	.176
1.023	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.419
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
9.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.2
73.0	Batter Rating	22.0
13.7	At Bats Per Home Run	33.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.61	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.00
.244	Isolated Power	.091
0.78	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.14
.143	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.029
.073	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.030
24.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.2
114.0	MLB Rating	70.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0