Friday night’s contest between the Twins and Arizona Diamondbacks ended with a walk-off sacrifice fly. Saturday night’s ended in extra innings. After two close, exciting games, it didn’t come as much of a surprise that Sunday’s game was a tight one as well with some late intrigue.

But after leaving the bases loaded in both the eighth and ninth innings, the Twins fell 6-4 in the series finale to Arizona on Sunday afternoon at Target Field.

The Twins’ eighth-inning rally fell short when pinch hitter Carson McCusker, in for Mickey Gasper, who had hit a home run in his previous at-bat, grounded out to short.

An inning later, Austin Martin singled with a pair of outs, giving the Twins some late hope. Kody Clemens then walked and Luke Keaschall was hit by a pitch before Matt Wallner flew out to right to end the game.

The two teams traded late runs on Sunday with the Twins getting solo home runs in the seventh and eighth from Wallner and Gasper, and the Diamondbacks responding with a run of their own in the top of the seventh and top of the eighth.

The Twins fell behind in the fourth inning when James McCann crushed an 89-mile-per hour fastball from Bailey Ober left over the heart of the plate and never led after that.

It was the American League-leading 30th home run Ober has given up this season. The starter, who was changeup-heavy on Sunday, gave up four runs on four hits in his six-inning outing, striking out nine.

The McCann home run gave Arizona the lead back after the Twins had briefly jumped ahead in the second, taking advantage of some shoddy Diamondbacks defense. Third baseman Jordan Lawlar committed a pair of errors — both with two outs — that opened the door for the Twins.

His fielding error put Gasper on base rather than ending the inning. Royce Lewis then scored when the very next batter, Edouard Julien, shot a single to left. Gasper would come around to score when Lawlar’s throw sailed past first baseman Tim Tawa later in the inning.

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