Gilberto Celestino hit a tiebreaking single in the fifth and Carlos Correa hit a two-run homer in the eighth to lead the visiting Minnesota Twins to a 7-4 victory over the San Diego Padres on Saturday.
The win snapped a three-game losing streak for Minnesota and evened the three-game interleague series.
Twins starter Sonny Gray (6-3) held the Padres to one run on five hits through five innings to get the win. He walked one and picked up five strikeouts.
Musgrove (8-4) suffered his fourth straight loss despite giving up two runs on four hits and two walks, with eight strikeouts in six innings.
The game was tied 1-1 going into the fifth thanks to a pair of homers.
Manny Machado gave the Padres a 1-0 lead in the third with a two-out homer off Gray. It was his 18th home run of the season.
Byron Buxton countered Machado’s blast an inning later, driving an 0-2 fastball from Musgrove onto the second balcony of the Western Metal building in left for his 26th homer.
Minnesota’s decisive rally began when Musgrove hit Jose Miranda with a pitch to open the fifth. Miranda moved to second on a single by Nick Gordon and scored on Celestino’s line-drive single to center.
Second base umpire Jerry Layne inadvertently cost the Padres the tying run in the seventh.
With one out, rookie infielder C.J. Abrams singled off Trevor Megill and moved to second on a throwing error by Twins’ shortstop Correa.
Jurickson Profar then hit a line drive that struck Layne. Profar was credited with a single, but Abrams was returned to second. Had the line drive not hit Layne, it would have gone into right-center field and Abrams would have scored the tying run from second.
Reliever Griffin Jax came on to strikeout Machado and retire Eric Hosmer on a pop out to end the inning.
Correa’s 13th homer of the season triggered a five-run eighth, with the final three runs coming after the Padres failed to complete what would have been an inning-ending double play. One run scored on Abrams’ throwing error and the final two came in on hits by Miranda and Gordon.
With the Twins leading 7-1, Profar hit a three-run homer in the ninth.
–Field Level Media
