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Jorge Polanco homered and doubled three times, while Byron Buxton also went deep, for the visiting Minnesota Twins during their 5-2 win over the Cleveland Indians on Monday night. It was the second four-hit game this season for Polanco, who, according to the Twins' television broadcast, tied a club record with four extra-base hits in a game.  
Buxton and Luis Arraez each posted two hits for Minnesota (60-77), which has won two straight following a four-game losing streak. Franmil Reyes belted a two-run homer for Cleveland detik (68-67), which has lost three of four at home and dropped to 5-8 against Minnesota this season. Five pitches and three batters into the game, Minnesota had a 2-0 lead against Cleveland's Logan Allen. Buxton led off with an infield hit, Polanco followed with a double to left field and Rob Refsnyder drove both home with a single to right.  
  
Polanco made it a 3-0 game with a shot well into the left-field seats in the third to increase his career-high homer total to 27. The Indians got within a run when Ramirez opened their half of the fourth with a bunt single and Reyes followed with his 27th homer of the season. Buxton clubbed his 11th of the campaign, just over the high left-field wall, in the fifth for a 4-2 Minnesota advantage. Minnesota starter Bailey Ober yielded his only runs on Reyes' homer, with five other hits, and struck out four without a walk over four innings.  
  
Michael Pineda (5-8) followed by giving up two hits and striking out three with a walk over three innings to earn the winning decision. Allen (1-6), meanwhile, allowed all five runs with eight hits over 5 1/3 innings for Cleveland. Arraez's pinch-hit RBI single extended the Twins' lead in the sixth. Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli was away from the team and back in Minneapolis for the birth of his first child. --Field Level Media