TWINS 4, BREWERS 3, 12 inn.
Kenta Maeda lost a no-hitter in the ninth inning for Minnesota, which blew a three-run lead but came back to beat Milwaukee.
Byron Buxton slid headfirst into home on a slow roller against a five-man infield in the 12th. Jorge Polanco poked the grounder against David Phelps (2-2), and second baseman Luis Urias fielded the ball but couldn’t send it home in time to nab Buxton.
Maeda’s no-hit bid was ended by Eric Sogard’s soft single that soared just over the glove of a leaping Polanco at shortstop. Maeda set a club record with eight consecutive strikeouts and finished the game with 12 punchouts on 115 pitches – the most pitches thrown by a pitcher this season and most in Maeda’s five-year major league career since coming over from Japan.
Maeda retired 21 straight batters in a stretch from the first to the eighth innings and finished with 12 strikeouts. He walked two.
Jorge Alcala (1-0) picked up the win.
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