The Twins couldn't come through with the bases loaded and nobody out in the fifth, and also stranded Eddie Rosario at third base in the seventh. It came back to haunt them with Carlos Gomez connecting on a go-ahead two-run single in the eighth off Blaine Boyer and an RBI double off Tim Stauffer in the ninth after an error from Trevor Plouffe.
"We haven't been doing too well situationally of late, which is something we were excelling at for a while," Twins manager Paul Molitor said.