MINNEAPOLIS -- In winning seven of eight games, the Giants championed their strong all-around play and felt as if they had overcome their early struggles, while becoming the team they expected to be when departing Spring Training.

The series finale at Target Field on Wednesday afternoon -- after winning the first two games -- was a letdown San Francisco is looking to move past quickly.

The Giants committed four errors -- three in a two-run third inning for the Twins -- and went 2-for-16 with runners in scoring position in a 7-1 loss to Minnesota.

“Not our best defensive game,” said San Francisco manager Gabe Kapler. “A good reminder that we have been playing good defense for the majority of the season, but that obviously wasn’t good enough, and a really good opportunity to flush it immediately and get ready for Milwaukee, not dwell on it at all.”

Anthony DeSclafani (3-4) took the loss for the Giants on the mound, giving up seven runs, four of which were earned. He allowed six hits and two walks and has now surrendered 17 runs (14 earned) over his last four starts.

“I feel like it took me a little bit to get the slider going, and I felt like their plan was pretty much to swing early, attack that slider early,” DeSclafani said. “They got ahead with that.”

In that shaky third inning, Brandon Crawford misplayed a ground ball and Brett Wisely made two errors, one on a throw to home plate during a double steal that allowed a run to score.

Wisely caught the ball in front of second base when he saw the runner, Willi Castro, take off for home. Wisely’s throw couldn’t be caught by catcher Blake Sabol as Castro came in to score.

Adding to the fielding issues, there was a passed ball by Sabol, while DeSclafani had a wild pitch and hit a batter. Michael Conforto also misjudged a line drive in right field off the bat of Willi Castro in the second inning when the ball went over his head for a double.

For Crawford, who also couldn’t handle a throw on a stolen-base attempt at second, it was his fifth error of the season. The four-time Gold Glove winner started the day with a .959 fielding percentage, the lowest number of his 13-year career.

“For the most part, fine,” Crawford said of his season in the field. “I mean, a couple bad games I feel like this season for me. Two errors in Detroit, an error today. Obviously, the stolen base I don’t get an error on, but it’s a play that should be made. But for the most part, fine, especially when healthy and moving around fine.”

Giving Minnesota extra outs proved costly, especially when the Giants couldn’t break through offensively.

San Francisco had runners on base in every inning on Wednesday, including the first when LaMonte Wade Jr. and Thairo Estrada started the game with back-to-back hits. But they were left stranded. In total, the Giants left 15 runners on base.

“I thought we had really good at-bats -- weren’t able to cash a lot of those in,” Kapler said. “Some pretty big moments where we didn’t get a big hit like we have been over the past 10 days or so. We just didn’t play good defense but, as I mentioned, this is not a trend or anything like that. It’s just we didn’t play good defense today. We need to turn the page quickly.”