Ryan Jeffers and Max Kepler hit home runs, and Bailey Ober threw another in a long line of quality starts as the Twins beat the Chicago White Sox, 6-2, on Saturday.

A crowd of 38,289, the second sellout at Target Field this season, also got to watch the Twins extend Chicago’s franchise-record losing streak to 19 games, matching the major leagues’ most recent epic skid — Baltimore’s in 2021.

The modern day record is Philadelphia Phillies’ 23-game losing streak in 1961. The American League record is Baltimore’s 21-game skid in 1988.

Ober (11-5) gave up two runs on two hits and a walk in seven innings and struck out seven in his 12th quality start of the season.

Brooks Lee drove in two runs with a pair of two-out singles for the Twins improved to 13 over .500 for the fifth time this season. They can go to 14 over for the first time this season with a victory and series sweep over the White Sox on Sunday afternoon.

Austin Martin tripled and scored on a single by Brooks Lee in the fifth inning and the Twins blew open a tight game with a three-run eighth. Willi Castro ended a 13-pitch at-bat against John Brebbia with a two-run single to right to score Carlos Santana and Ryan Jeffers and make it 5-2 in the eighth. After Martin singled Castro to third, Lee drove him home with a single to left-center off Jared Shuster.

Griffin Jax and Jhoan Duran each pitched a scoreless inning of relief for the Twins.

Brooks Baldwin homered for the White Sox, who fell a franchise-worst 59 games under .500 and trail first-place Cleveland in the AL Central by 46 games pending the Guardians’ game against the Orioles.

Jeffers gave the Twins a 1-0 lead in the second with a two-out home run into the corner of the left-field bleachers off of Sox starter Garrett Crochet. It was the only hit the left-hander made in four innings, although he walked four.

The White Sox tied it in the fifth inning. Ober hit Gavin Sheets on the foot to start the inning, then fanned Corey Julks and got Dominic Fleischer to pop out to short. But No. 9 hitter Korey Lee sliced a liner into right field that Manny Margot played into a triple, scoring Sheets easily to make it 1-1.

The Twins climbed back on top in their half of the fifth when Martin opened the inning with a single to left that Julks misplayed. Martin wound up on third and scored on Lee’s single to right. The play was initially ruled a single and two-base error on Julks but changed to a triple in the eighth inning.

Again, the White Sox tied it, however, on Baldwin’s leadoff home run in the sixth inning. But Ober retired the next three batters and pitched a 1-2-3 seventh, long enough to be the pitcher or record after Kepler’s go-ahead homer in the bottom of the inning.

Kepler, who entered the game as a pinch hitter for Margot in the fifth, jumped on a slow curveball from Touki Toussaint and hit it well inside the right field foul pole for a 3-2 lead.

Ryan Jeffers #27 of the Minnesota Twins rounds the bases after hitting a home run in the second inning of the game against the Chicago White Sox at Target Field on Aug. 3, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Former Minnesota Twins player Joe Mauer speaks during a ceremony honoring his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame before a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Twins, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Matt Krohn)