MILWAUKEE — Pablo López combined with three relievers on a three-hitter, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-0 on Saturday for their third straight shutout and 13th consecutive victory.
The Twins’ winning streak is their longest since they reeled off 15 straight victories in 1991, the year they won their last World Series title.
The Twins haven’t allowed a run since giving up six of them in the third inning of an 8-6 victory over the Orioles in the second game of a doubleheader Wednesday in Baltimore.
The Twins’ 33 consecutive shutout innings are a franchise record. There were three longer scoreless streaks when the Twins operated as the Washington Senators, but the most recent of those was in 1913.
The Brewers have been shut out in four of their last five games, the first time that’s happened in franchise history, according to Sportradar; the last team to get shut out four times in a five-game stretch was the Miami Marlins in July 2022.
Ryan Jeffers went 4-for-5 with a home run and double, and Kody Clemens went 3-for-5 with a home run as the Twins racked up 18 hits.
López (4-2) struck out six and allowed two hits and two walks in six innings. Justin Topa, Jorge Alcala and Kody Funderburk each pitched one inning of relief.
The Twins took control by scoring single runs in each of the first six innings. Four of those runs came off Tobias Myers, who was sent to the minors earlier this week before getting called back up when left-hander Jose Quintana went on the injured list.
Jeffers opened the scoring by hitting a 420-foot shot to left-center with one out in the first inning. He also doubled and scored in the third, singled in the fourth and singled in the eighth.
Myers (1-1) allowed 11 hits over 3 2/3 innings while striking out four and walking nobody.
