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Major League Baseball
Minnesota 12, Milwaukee 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Where: Miller Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Temperature: 81°
Umpires: Home - Jordan Baker, 1B - David Rackley, 2B - Ed Hickox, 3B - Jerry Meals
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Byron Buxton hit two home runs and Miguel Sano also homered to lead a 15-hit attack as the visiting Minnesota Twins cruised to a 12-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night in the rubber game of a three-game series.

Buxton finished 3-for-5, Mitch Garver had three hits and scored twice, and Marwin Gonzalez and Luis Arraez each added two hits for the Twins, who led 11-0 after five innings. All nine Minnesota starters had a hit by the fourth inning.

Kenta Maeda (3-0) retired the first 11 batters he faced and held the Brewers to just a Christian Yelich single over the first five innings while garnering his third win in four starts. He allowed two runs on five hits and a walk over 6 2/3 innings while striking out five.

Eric Lauer (0-2) gave up seven runs on nine hits in 3 2/3 innings. Milwaukee's Luis Urias had two hits and two RBIs, and Justin Smoak had a single and a double.

Minnesota jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the second inning thanks to five hits, including an RBI double by Jake Cave and RBI singles by Arraez, Jorge Polanco and Nelson Cruz. Another run scored on a Lauer wild pitch.

Sano made it 6-0 in the third with a towering 442-foot shot to left, his fourth of the season.

After Gonzalez boosted the lead to 7-0 with an RBI double in the fourth, the Twins broke the game open with a four-run fifth that featured a solo home run by Buxton, bases-loaded walks to Cruz and Eddie Rosario and a sacrifice fly by Gonzalez.

Buxton made it 12-0 with his second home run of the game leading off the sixth, the second multi-homer game of his career.

The Brewers cut it to 12-2 in the sixth on a two-run single by Urias, driving in Eric Sogard, who had singled, and Keston Hiura, who had doubled.

Jedd Gyorko, whose two-run homer in the eighth inning Tuesday gave Milwaukee a 6-4 victory, pitched a scoreless ninth inning, allowing only a leadoff single by Mitch Garver.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Minnesota   Milwaukee
Kenta Maeda Player Eric Lauer
Win W/L Loss
6.2 IP 3.2
5 Strikeouts 2
5 Hits 9
2.70 ERA 17.18
Hitting
Minnesota   Milwaukee
Byron Buxton Player Luis Urias
3 Hits 2
2 RBI 2
2 HR 0
9 TB 2
.600 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Minnesota 15 3 26 .366 13 6 11 6 0 0
Milwaukee 7 0 9 .206 10 8 2 1 0 0