The game was close for four innings. Then the fifth arrived, and Minnesota never had a chance. Philadelphia sent 11 batters to the plate in a seven-run outburst that turned a tight early game into a rout, and the Phillies cruised from there to a 9-1 win over the Twins.

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Jesus Luzardo did the rest. The right-hander worked 6.2 innings, allowing just one run on seven hits while striking out nine, improving to 11-5 with a 3.23 ERA. He held Minnesota in check almost the entire night, exiting with the outcome long since decided, and the bullpen finished the job by covering 2.1 innings without allowing a run.

Philadelphia had already grabbed a lead in the second, when Realmuto's sacrifice fly to center scored Arraez to make it 1-0. But the game turned in the fifth. Arraez walked to bring home Realmuto, Bohm followed with a single to center that scored Turner, and Sosa's single to left plated both Arraez and Harper. Bryson Stott then put it away with a three-run homer to right, scoring Bohm and Sosa and pushing the score to 8-0. Stott finished 1-for-3 with three RBIs, and Alec Bohm was every bit as central to the outburst, going 5-for-5 with three doubles and two runs scored.

Twins starter Connor Prielipp took the loss, allowing 8 runs on 8 hits over 5.0 innings as the fifth-inning surge overwhelmed him. Minnesota's only offense came on Royce Lewis's double in the sixth that brought home Jeffers, and a ninth-inning sacrifice fly by Realmuto later made it 9-1, closing the scoring. Ryan Jeffers went 1-for-4 with a double for the Twins, but it was not nearly enough to answer the damage from Philadelphia's big inning.

The win pushed Philadelphia to 66-58, extending its win streak to two games, while Minnesota fell to 60-64 with its second straight loss. Luis Arraez, who scored twice, sits at 494 career runs, 6 shy of the 500 mark.

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