After 12 wins — and with some help from one good-luck summer sausage — the streak has finally met its end.

Over the course of the winning streak, the Twins revitalized their season, pulling themselves from six games under .500 to six over. They got lucky, at times, and created their own luck by stringing together good at-bats and making things happen.

Everyone was contributing and wins felt inevitable.

However, the Twins knew it was going to end someday and that day was Sunday. The Twins fell 9-2 to the Boston Red Sox in the series finale at Target Field. The 12-game winning streak was tied for the second-longest in club history with the 1980 group, behind just the 1991 World Series-winning team that won 15 straight.

“I think we invigorated ourselves by playing well,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “The way we’ve come back from the start, which wasn’t a great start, the way we came back from that shows character. It’s something that you’re really looking for in your group. We have great leadership in our clubhouse. The guys never really wavered and we ended up playing some really great baseball for a couple weeks.”

While the Twins’ (19-14) winning streak was characterized by the offense finally breaking out after a collective slumber to begin the year, there wasn’t a ton of it to speak of on Sunday.

The Twins had a prime opportunity to break the game open in the second inning with three straight singles off Red Sox (19-16) starter Cooper Criswell, but they were unable to convert on their bases-loaded opportunity, striking out twice before Jose Miranda sent a little dribbler back to Criswell for the final out.

It was their best chance of the game, one in which they finished 3 for 13 with runners in scoring position.

“It did feel like every time an opportunity arose in the past 12 games, it felt like we were always coming through,” shortstop Carlos Correa said. “Today was just one of those days that we were not able to do that.”

The Twins struck first in the third inning when Ryan Jeffers planted his sixth home run of the season behind the wall in left-center field. It gave them a lead they held just briefly.

Starter Joe Ryan, who was perfect through the first three innings, allowed a double to Jarren Duran to lead off the fourth and then later a hard-hit ball that ticked off Correa’s glove into left field, allowing Duran to score.

An inning later, Ceddanne Rafaela connected on the seventh pitch of his at-bat, a fastball from Ryan that he sent out for a two-run homer. Ryan said he was trying to locate that pitch higher than he was able to.

The Red Sox pulled away with four more runs in the eighth, putting the Twins in a hole that not even the rally sausage — which Baldelli said would be retired in favor of a new one — could help them recover from.

“It was special. Gives us a lot of confidence moving forward,” Correa said of the winning streak. “We knew it wasn’t going to last forever. … We were very consistent for a long time. Hopefully, we can start a new one tomorrow and just keep on with the approach, keep up with the same discipline, keep up with the same work and same mentality.”