MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins entered their game Monday night with 34 wins and one loss when leading after seven innings, but the Brewers cracked the normally reliable Taylor Rogers with a late two-run homer by Orlando Arcia for a come-from-behind, 5-4 win at Target Field that snapped the Twins’ six-game winning streak.

“He’s been so good,” manager Rocco Baldelli said of Rogers. “Over the course of a long year, you’re going to see everyone give up runs. It is what it is. He just makes so many good pitches and puts us in so many spots to win games.”

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Pitching with a one-run lead in the eighth inning, Rogers allowed a pinch-hit, leadoff double to Hernan Perez before leaving a 1-0 fastball over the inner half of the plate that Arcia yanked into the left-field seats to erase the Twins’ advantage. He eventually allowed a walk and a single before striking out Yasmani Grandal to end the threat.

It marked the first time that Rogers had given up a lead since June 26, 2018, spanning a stretch of 58 appearances. It was only the second homer he had allowed since July 1, 2018.

“It’s been a while since this has happened, so good news,” Rogers said. “And I don’t have my head in the sand -- I know it’s going to happen, probably happen again. I guess as long as I can go in between is ideal.”

Though Rogers had thrown only 31 pitches across three appearances since May 14 because the sustained success of the team’s starting rotation and lineup left the Twins without many high-leverage situations late in games, he still felt that his pitches were sharp. Rogers said that the extended time off did not affect him on Monday.

“I wouldn’t put too much into the time off or not time off,” Rogers said. “Obviously, if I go out there and put up a zero tonight, we’re not talking about time off. So just a product of timing.”

Minnesota had a good chance to return the favor in the bottom of the ninth against Milwaukee’s own tough left-hander, Josh Hader, after a one-out walk by Jonathan Schoop and a single by C.J. Cron.

Though Schoop and Cron had both been less aggressive early in the count as they reached base, Eddie Rosario went up swinging on the first pitch, as was his plan, and lofted a high fly ball to center on a fastball up in the zone. Miguel Sano then struck out on three pitches for the final out.

“It’s more easy with [Hader] to hit early, when he has to throw a strike. We have good numbers when he has to throw a strike,” Rosario said. “I missed the ball. Maybe if he throws a strike, maybe everything’s different, but it happens.”

The Twins stranded 10 runners in the game.

“I thought we put together some good at-bats,” Baldelli said. “We gave ourselves a chance late in the game when you’re facing a guy that has that kind of stuff, really what you want to do is put yourself in a spot where you have a chance to win a game -- and we had a chance to win a game. Our guys continued to battle against a good team and a good arm out of the bullpen.”

Pineda continues encouraging progress

As Michael Pineda has gradually righted the ship following a difficult start to the season, Baldelli has said that eliminating the one or two bouts of shakiness in otherwise dominant starts would be the key for the big right-hander.

Pineda experienced another one of those lapses in the third inning, when he allowed three runs on three hits and a pair of sacrifice flies. But he was particularly dialed in during his dominant stretches, surrounding that third frame with five perfect innings as he tossed his fourth consecutive quality start.

“I consider this a very positive start,” Baldelli said. “That's a tough lineup. They have a very good and dangerous lineup. You have to make a lot of good pitches to get through that lineup. Big Mike did that. He seriously did that.”

In that difficult third inning, Pineda was happy with his execution but said that the Brewers’ hitters were keying in on his changeup, which he had used frequently in the first two innings. But he also felt that both his changeup and his slider were working well on Monday night, another promising development after he had struggled with the consistency of his slider early in the season.

And that showed. He allowed only three hits -- his fewest since his first start of the season on March 31 -- and recorded six strikeouts without issuing a walk in six innings.

"This lineup is really good, and they have a lot of power hitters, especially [Christian] Yelich,” Pineda said. “He has the most homers in the Major Leagues right now. So for me, I started the game today and I tried to move the ball, especially for him, and tried to execute my pitches and not get hard contact."

Pineda has allowed three earned runs in each of his last five starts. With the way the Twins’ offense is surging, that will usually play just fine -- especially from the team’s fifth starter.

“He certainly pitched well enough to win that game,” Baldelli said. “I think you play that out all over again and he pitches a game in which we win.”

A stat that mattered

55: homers this month for the Twins**.**

Byron Buxton followed Luis Arraez’s third-inning RBI single with a three-run shot off Gio Gonzalez to give the Twins a 4-0 lead. It was the Twins’ 55th homer of the month, tying the 55 homers in May 1964 for the most in a month in franchise history. Gonzalez had allowed only one homer in 26 1/3 innings across five starts in 2019 entering Monday.