MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Carlos Gomez went 4 for 4 with a walk, tormenting his former team again with three RBIs over the last three innings to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday.Gomez hit a two-run tiebreaking single in the seventh and an RBI double in the ninth. Matt Garza (4-7) threw seven strong innings, Ryan Braun homered for the first time in 12 days and the Brewers handed the Twins their second straight loss at home for the first time this year in front of the second-largest crowd at Target Field this season.Francisco Rodriguez pitched a hitless ninth for his 10th save in 10 tries after Brian Dozier hit his 11th homer for the Twins off Jonathan Broxton in the eighth. 
Ryan Pressly (3-2) avoided allowing any runs despite throwing 12 straight balls to start the fifth, but he gave up a leadoff single to Jean Segura in the seventh.Gomez smacked the first pitch from Blaine Boyer, the third reliever of the inning, into center field to put the Brewers up 3-1.This was Gomez's first four-hit game in more than a full year. He could have done even more damage had he not been thrown out twice on the bases.Braun missed the game on Wednesday for a procedure designed to reduce inflammation in the joint, a similar remedy to what he tried after last season. He was held out on Friday, too. Since that game on Memorial Day when he last went deep, Braun was just 6 for 31 with two RBIs and one extra-base hit until he stepped in against J.R. Graham.The 2011 National League MVP Award winner drove a 1-2 fastball from Graham into the grassy berm behind center field in the first inning, and another runner didn't cross the plate again until Joe Mauer drove in Brian Dozier with the tying single for the Twins in the sixth.Garza, the first-round draft pick by the Twins in 2005, threw five shutout innings in relief for the win in Milwaukee's 17-inning victory over Arizona last Sunday. He retired the first 11 batters he faced until Mauer beat out an infield single when shortstop Segura took his time with the throw to first.Garza let a sacrifice bunt try slide under his glove for an error in the fifth inning to load the bases with nobody out, but he escaped without a run by getting Aaron Hicks to pop out and Danny Santana to ground into a double play. Santana, who batted .319 last year as a rookie, has one hit in his last 21 at-bats to drop his average to .219.Graham never pitched above Double-A prior to this season in the Atlanta organization but, as a Rule 5 draft pick, the Twins must keep him on the major league roster all year or offer him back to the Braves.Minnesota has gradually brought him into more meaningful situations, and with a void in the rotation due to a doubleheader in Boston this week and another injury to Ricky Nolasco, the 25-year-old got his biggest assignment yet with his first major league start.Graham threw 63 pitches in four innings, allowing six hits without a walk while striking out three.
Ryan Pressly (3-2) avoided allowing any runs despite throwing 12 straight balls to start the fifth, but he gave up a leadoff single to Jean Segura in the seventh.Gomez smacked the first pitch from Blaine Boyer, the third reliever of the inning, into center field to put the Brewers up 3-1.This was Gomez's first four-hit game in more than a full year. He could have done even more damage had he not been thrown out twice on the bases.Braun missed the game on Wednesday for a procedure designed to reduce inflammation in the joint, a similar remedy to what he tried after last season. He was held out on Friday, too. Since that game on Memorial Day when he last went deep, Braun was just 6 for 31 with two RBIs and one extra-base hit until he stepped in against J.R. Graham.The 2011 National League MVP Award winner drove a 1-2 fastball from Graham into the grassy berm behind center field in the first inning, and another runner didn't cross the plate again until Joe Mauer drove in Brian Dozier with the tying single for the Twins in the sixth.Garza, the first-round draft pick by the Twins in 2005, threw five shutout innings in relief for the win in Milwaukee's 17-inning victory over Arizona last Sunday. He retired the first 11 batters he faced until Mauer beat out an infield single when shortstop Segura took his time with the throw to first.Garza let a sacrifice bunt try slide under his glove for an error in the fifth inning to load the bases with nobody out, but he escaped without a run by getting Aaron Hicks to pop out and Danny Santana to ground into a double play. Santana, who batted .319 last year as a rookie, has one hit in his last 21 at-bats to drop his average to .219.Graham never pitched above Double-A prior to this season in the Atlanta organization but, as a Rule 5 draft pick, the Twins must keep him on the major league roster all year or offer him back to the Braves.Minnesota has gradually brought him into more meaningful situations, and with a void in the rotation due to a doubleheader in Boston this week and another injury to Ricky Nolasco, the 25-year-old got his biggest assignment yet with his first major league start.Graham threw 63 pitches in four innings, allowing six hits without a walk while striking out three.
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