The sparse crowd at Target Field on Tuesday night was not hesitant about making its feelings known. As things went from bad to worse for the hometown team and the Twins continued to fall into a progressively deeper hole against the team with the American League’s worst record, the boobirds came out.

An announced crowd of 11,721 fans — along with more than 300 canine friends — watched the Twins get routed by the Chicago White Sox, falling 12-3 in the second game of the series as they gave up 11 unanswered runs.

A pair of errors on throws to second base proved costly for the Twins, who gave up two runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth before the White Sox broke the game open with four runs in the seventh and added three more in the eighth.

The Twins actually had two separate early leads, striking first after Trevor Larnach knocked in Byron Buxton, who tripled to lead off the bottom of the first. After Simeon Woods Richardson served up a game-tying home run in the top of the second, Mickey Gasper’s stolen base put him in scoring position and Ryan Fitzgerald brought him home.

But things unraveled a few innings later.

With a runner on first in the fifth inning, White Sox right fielder Will Robertson hit a ball back at Woods Richardson, his bat splintering in the process. The barrel flew back at the pitcher, who managed to duck and dodge it but his throw to second to get the lead runner sailed over Brooks Lee’s head and into the outfield.

Instead of a double play, the error left runners on the corners for Bryan Ramos, the very next batter, who hit a double to bring home both runs and tie the game up.

An inning later, after Thomas Hatch issued a leadoff walk, he induced a groundball to third but Austin Martin couldn’t hang onto the throw, setting the stage for another two-run inning that put the Twins in their first deficit of the night. Four more runs scored in the seventh, starting with back-to-back home runs from Kyle Teel and Lenyn Sosa. Four more hits — and two more runs followed — before Hatch got out of the inning and an inning later, Noah Davis served up an Andrew Benintendi three-run home run.