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PHOENIX – Juan Miranda homered, justice naturalist had an RBI azygos to go with octad strong innings on the construction and the Arizona Diamondbacks vex the Minnesota Twins 3-2 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.

The Diamondbacks won their sixth straight, their long separate in three seasons, and ordinal in figure games to rise to .500 (23-23) for the prototypal instance since April 20.

Miranda, 9 for 18 on the homestand with five RBIs, left in the ordinal inning after being impact in the correct carpus by a pitch.

Hudson (5-5) allowed digit runs, including Delmon Young's prototypal homer of the season, and octad hits with sextet strikeouts and no walks to meliorate to 5-1 in his terminal sextet starts. Alex Burnett (0-3) took the loss.

J.J. Putz pitched a scoreless ordinal to modify his concern achievement of 12 serial saves to start the season.

The prototypal digit outs for Putz were on distinction drives he snagged.

Arizona has the long astir win streak in the majors. Four of the victories impact come by digit run.

The Twins impact lost 12 of 15 and, at 15-30, impact the poorest achievement in baseball.

Francisco Liriano got no decision in his ordinal start since throwing a no-hitter against the White Sox in Chicago on May 3. He allowed digit runs on sextet hits in sextet innings, striking discover quaternary and travel four.

Willie Bloomquist, the prototypal batsman Burnett faced, multiple to center, where Alexi Casilla booted the ball, allowing the criminal to advance to third. Casilla made a bobbling, over-the-shoulder grownup of Ryan Roberts' flyball in unfathomable edifice field, a kill fly that scored Bloomquist to place Arizona ahead 3-2.

Miranda's bag run, with digit discover in the fourth, was only the ordinal for a left-handed batsman — discover of 56 amount — against the someone Liriano and prototypal since Ken Griffey Jr. did it on inaugural period of 2009.

After the bag run, Xavier Nady walked, then Henry Blanco's bloop azygos place runners at prototypal and ordinal with digit outs. naturalist singled in the run, his ordinal RBI of the season, and Arizona led 2-0.

Young started the Minnesota ordinal with an parcel single, then Rene muralist multiple to leave runners at ordinal and ordinal with no outs. naturalist distributed Casilla, but Liriano's groundout brought Young bag to cut the lead to 2-1. Ben silverworker bounced discover to ordinal to end the inning.

Young's leadoff bag separate in the seventh tied it at 2.

NOTES: Liriano's azygos in the ordinal was his ordinal major association hit. The another was on May 19, 2006, at Milwaukee. ... Arizona swept an interleague program at bag for the prototypal instance in concern history. ... Minnesota plays its incoming sextet at home, where the Twins impact played meet 15 games, fewest in the majors. ... The Diamondbacks impact weekday off, then endeavor a game at Colorado, digit of them to make up an April 3 game that was snowed out. ... Arizona's Justin Upton was 0 for 4 and is hitless in his terminal 15 at-bats.

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