The Twins beat the A's 8-7 Sunday night to take both games of a split doubleheader and finish a sweep of the four-game series.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Jose Miranda hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and the Minnesota Twins beat the Oakland Athletics 8-7 Sunday night to take both games of a split doubleheader and finish a sweep of the four-game series.Willi Castro had three hits and Carlos Correa and Austin Martin each had two for the Twins. Minnesota has won five straight and seven of eight.JJ Bleday and Tyler Soderstrom each had three hits including a home run but Oakland lost for the ninth straight time.
Correa has had multiple hits in eight of his last 11 games, including two home runs as part of a three-hit game when Minnesota won the opener 6-2. Lewis and Carlos Santana also homered.Called up to be Minnesota's 27th player for the doubleheader, Louie Varland threw 4 1/3 mostly solid innings but gave up four straight singles in the seventh, the last two RBIs by Soderstrom and Shea Langeliers to tie the score at 7-all.
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