A few odds and ends from a disappointing game for the Twins:

— Odd night in the Twins' clubhouse after the game. After victories, there is smoke still wafting, and loud music thumping, the residue of the nightly dance party. After Monday's loss? Classical music was on the sound system, specifically Bach's Suite No. 1 in C. "When you lose, you need to kind of calm the beast in you," explained DJ Torii Hunter. "Some of these guys are [angry], so we put on classical. The strings in classical [help]."

— It was a good night for Eddie Rosario, whose seventh-inning home run to left-center off reliever Ryan Madson extended his Target Field hitting streak to 14 games — all 14 games he's played here. The rookie outfielder is showing clear improvement, manager Paul Molitor said. "His beginning was little up and down, but he's kind of leveled off a little bit in terms of consistency," Molitor said. "He's taking some of the pitches he was swinging at earlier, to get ahead of the count. He's getting better, and to go to the opposite field like that was impressive."

— The Twins had one serious scoring threat against Jason Vargas, when Eduardo Escobar and Aaron Hicks reached second and third base with one out, the latter on a double that bounced off third base. "You've got [Brian] Dozier and Hunter coming up, you're hoping to at least get a run there," Molitor said.

But Dozier hit a roller to third base that Mike Moustakas caught after a couple of bounces. Escobar took a couple of steps toward the plate, then backed up, fearing he'd be thrown out. Seeing it live, I thought it was a great read, because Moustakas was charging in, and had the ball before Escobar would have been even halfway home. Molitor sounded a lot more skeptical. "It's tough to say whether, if he had read it a little better, whether he would have had a chance," the manager said. "Moustakas was probably about 10-12 feet behind the bag."

Dozier was safe at first, however, loading the bases with one out. The crowd cheered, but not for long. Hunter swung at the first pitch, an 80-mph changeup, and grounded it to Alcides Escobar at short — "one of the best shortstops in the world," Hunter emphasized.

"I've got a plan there. I've been facing Vargas for a long time, back when he was in Seattle. We had battles. I know what he does," Hunter said. "I had a plan — I knew he was going to throw off-speed, so I was trying to shoot it to right field. But [the pitch] did something totally different. It was supposed to fade, but it broke into me, allowed me to come around the ball. I hit it hard, but just right at the wrong guy at the wrong time."

Escobar turned it into a 6-4-3 double play, and the Twins, except for Rosario's home run, never put another runner on third base.