Twins make Safeco Field look small

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SEATTLE — Miguel Sano homered for the third straight game and drove in three runs as the Twins topped the Mariners, 6-5, Saturday night for their second straight win at Safeco Field.

The Twins tagged Mariners starter Wade Miley with three home runs — two-run blasts by Sano and Joe Mauer and a solo shot by Eduardo Nunez — as Seattle’s southpaw lasted just four-plus innings while giving up six hits and five runs with four walks.

Twins right-hander Phil Hughes didn’t fare much better, getting pulled after 4 2/3 innings while allowing nine hits and four runs. Hughes departed with a 5-4 lead, but Seattle tied things up on a solo homer by Luis Sardinas in the sixth before Sano delivered a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh in the see-saw affair.

Nunez went 4-for-5 for the Twins and scored twice as …

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