Twins fall to 0-7 on the road with loss to Brewers

MILWAUKEE – Oswaldo Arcia had an eventful night Wednesday at Miller Park. Eventful, it turns out, isn't always a good thing.

The third-year outfielder smacked his second home run in three days, continuing a resurgence at the plate that has earned him extra playing time recently. He made a long, sprinting catch of a Ryan Braun fly ball into the corner, too, a tricky play even with padded walls all around.

But Arcia had three notable misadventures in the outfield, too, and struck out in a critical bases-loaded situation. His night in an unwanted spotlight ended up as the Twins' second consecutive loss to the Brewers, 10-5.

"Sloppiness always concerns a manager, when we don't execute," manager Paul Molitor said after Arcia became the third Twins outfielder in two days to be charged with an error. "We know errors are part of the game, but you like to clean that up the best you can. Sometimes you trade offensive players that maybe aren't your best defensive players, and sometimes you've got to be able to deal with the consequences when it doesn't work out for you."

It didn't work out for Arcia, but he wasn't the only one responsible for this loss. Tommy Milone surrendered four runs and didn't last five innings, Michael Tonkin walked in a run and surrendered a bases-loaded double, and Ryan Pressly, who hadn't allowed a run all season, was touched for four runs while recording four outs.

The Brewers got home runs from Aaron Hill, Chris Carter and Domingo Santana and set a season high for runs.

But Arcia was the focus of a lot of the Twins' sloppiness. In the fourth inning, he bobbled Carter's double, allowing Braun to score from first base.

With the bases loaded in the fifth, Arcia turned the wrong way to chase Jonathan Lucroy's long fly ball to the left field wall. The ball sailed over his head as he reached the wall, bouncing away for a two-run double.

An inning later, Braun drew a one-out walk from Pressly. Lucroy followed with a bouncer to left field for a single. But when Arcia charged in to field the ball, he allowed it to skip past his glove and roll to the wall. Braun scored from first base, and the Brewers retook the lead for good. That point was emphasized a moment later, when Carter launched his home run to deep center field.

"My guess is that there's a good chance he was peeking to see if [Braun] was going to try to go first to third, instead of watching the ball into his glove," Molitor said. "He's playing fairly deep in this park, and you're concerned about first to third. But we always try to prioritize — catch the ball first."

Arcia tried to make up for his miscues in the field at the plate, and crushed a home run inside the foul pole in the sixth. But in the seventh inning, the score was tied 4-4 when Brian Dozier doubled and walks to Joe Mauer and Miguel Sano loaded the bases with two outs. Arcia fouled off a fastball from reliever Carlos Torres, looked at another strike, then swung through the third fastball, dropping the Twins to 0-for-10 with the bases loaded this season.

Milone pitched three strong innings in his second start of the year, but his night crumbled after that.