Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature: 70°
Umpires: Home - Jerry Layne, 1B - Bob Davidson, 2B - Hunter Wendelstedt, 3B - Brian Knight
Attendance: 40655
Drew Butera delivered a walk-off single to lift the Minnesota Twins to a seventh straight victory, 5-4, over the visiting San Diego Padres on Sunday.
Francisco Liriano made it seven straight quality starts for the Minnesota rotation, and Alexi Casilla hit a solo homer for the Twins, who have won 14 of their last 16.
After the Padres came back to tie the game in the eighth, Minnesota got to Chad Qualls (3-3) in the bottom of the ninth. Delmon Young led off with a single and was sacrificed over to second. San Diego elected to intentionally walk Tsuyoshi Nishioka to face Butera, who singled to plate the winning run.
Alex Burnett (2-4) pitched a scoreless inning of relief to pick up the win.
The Twins trailed, 3-1, in the seventh but rallied to take the lead, tying it on Rene Tosoni’s RBI double and taking the lead when Matt Tolbert doubled home Tosoni.
Chase Headley and Ryan Ludwick each recorded two hits and an RBI for the Padres, who have dropped five straight.
| San Diego | Minnesota | |
| Dustin Moseley | Player | Francisco Liriano |
| No Decision | W/L | No Decision |
| 6.1 | IP | 7.0 |
| 3 | Strikeouts | 8 |
| 3 | Hits | 8 |
| 1.42 | ERA | 3.86 |
| San Diego | Minnesota | |
| Orlando Hudson | Player | Delmon Young |
| 2 | Hits | 2 |
| 0 | RBI | 0 |
| 0 | HR | 0 |
| 2 | TB | 2 |
| .667 | Avg | .500 |