Chris Taylor scored on a bases-loaded walk in the 12th inning, Max Muncy homered twice, and the Dodgers beat the Minnesota Twins 9-8 for their sixth straight win.
provided some early muscle with home runs in his first two at-bats, and Phil Bickford provided three gutsy innings of relief, throwing 48 pitches and limiting the Twins to one run and one hit to help the Dodgers win for the 14th time in 16 games.
Bickford then walked No. 9 hitter Christian Vazquez on four pitches to force in a run for an 8-7 Twins lead, but he stopped the bleeding by striking out Donovan Solano and Alex Kirilloff and getting Michael A. Taylor to fly to the warning track in center field. The Twins had tied the game 6-6 in the top of the eighth when Trevor Larnach hit a three-run homer off Dodgers reliever Yency Almonte.
Phillips struck out Jorge Polanco and Larnach to end the inning, but the Dodgers failed to score off Duran in the bottom of the ninth,
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