Twins knock off Mets on walk-off single in 10th inning

Ty France delivered a walk-off RBI single leading off the 10th inning Wednesday afternoon for the Minnesota Twins, who built a rare winning streak by beating the New York Mets 4-3.The Twins won the final two games of the three-game series — just the second time this season they’ve won consecutive games and the second time they’ve won a series.The Mets have dropped back-to-back games for the first time.France singled to shallow center against Reed Garrett (0-1). Tyrone Taylor tried playing the bounce on the short hop, but the ball skipped by him as automatic runner Byron Buxton scored easily from second.Cole Sands (2-1), the Twins’ sixth pitcher, wriggled out of a two-on, no-out jam in the top of the 10th, when he induced Jesse Winker to hit into a double play and got Brandon Nimmo to pop out on consecutive pitches.Harrison Bader and Buxton each had an RBI single in the fifth before Willi Castro extended the Twins lead to 3-0 with a run-scoring infield single in the sixth.Bader, Buxton and Castro all had two hits apiece. Bader, who played last season with the Mets, was 5-for-7 in the last two games after sitting out Monday’s opener and robbed Taylor of the likely go-ahead hit to end the eighth.

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