Brooks Lee gives Twins a walk-off win for second straight day

The Twins tied the game up in the seventh inning on Friday, used two scoreless innings from Louie Varland and then walked off the Tampa Bay Rays with a Harrison Bader home run in the ninth.

Saturday’s game followed a similar formula, with a different cast of starring characters.

A four-run sixth, capped by Kody Clemens’ three-run, opposite-field blast, with two scoreless frames from Jhoan Duran and then a bunt single from Brooks Lee in the ninth sent the Twins to victory on Saturday afternoon at Target Field. This one was a 6-5 victory over Tampa Bay.

After Byron Buxton walked to begin the ninth and Willi Castro moved him to third with a single, Lee — who entered the game earlier in the day as a pinch hitter — laid down a bunt. It hit the glove of first baseman Yandy Diaz, bringing home Buxton and sending the Twins piling out onto the field in celebration.

The walk-off win — the 500th win of manager Rocco Baldelli&r...