The weather is heating up in Minneapolis and so are Byron Buxton and the Minnesota Twins. Minnesota won its fifth straight game Thursday, completing a sweep of the Baltimore Orioles with a 5-2 victory at Target Field.

The Twins matched their season-high winning streak Wednesday, and Byron Buxton matched his career-high home-run streak. These occurrences are not unrelated. Buxton cracked a Charlie Morton curveball into the upper deck down the left field line with two runners on base in the third inning,

Byron Buxton homered for a third straight game and Harrison Bader had a pinch-hit homer to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles for their fourth consecutive victory.