WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Byron Buxton matched his career high with five RBIs and the Minnesota Twins extended the Athletics' losing streak to seven games with a 10-4 victory Monday night.
Buxton had a two-run double with two outs in a six-run second inning. He drove in two more with a bases-loaded single in the sixth and added a sacrifice fly in the ninth.
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Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton hits a double that scores two runs against the Athletics during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Minnesota Twins pitcher Kody Funderburk, right, celebrates with Christian Vázquez, left, after their victory over the Athletics in a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa, right, throws to first for the double play against the Athletics during the ninth inning of a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa celebrates with teammates after their victory over the Athletics in a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton steals second base against the Athletics during the sixth inning of a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Lawrence Butler hit a three-run homer for the Athletics (23-38), who have lost 18 of 19 overall. They fell to 9-20 at Sutter Health Park, their temporary home for at least the next three seasons.
In the opener of a four-game series, the Twins went down in order in the first against Luis Severino before batting around in the second. Ty France singled in the first two runs and Buxton made it 4-0. Trevor Larnach had an RBI single before Brooks Lee doubled in the final run of the inning.
Lee added an RBI single in the eighth.
Butler walked, went to third on Jacob Wilson's double and scored on Brent Rooker's hard comebacker to Twins starter Joe Ryan in the third for the Athletics' first run. Butler hit his ninth homer — a two-out shot to center field in the fourth — to get the A's within 6-4.
Ryan (6-2) loaded the bases with no outs in the fifth but escaped unscathed. He gave up four runs and six hits in five innings.
Buxton's two-run single chased Severino (1-5), who allowed eight runs and nine hits in 5 2/3 innings.
The Twins (32-27) have gone 6-7 since winning 13 straight.
Ryan had the bases loaded and a 3-0 count on CJ Alexander in the fifth before retiring Alexander and Luis Urías on popups. Drew Avans grounded out to end the inning.
The Twins are 7-0 against California teams after earlier sweeps over the Angels and Giants.
RHP Pablo López (4-3 2.75 ERA) starts Tuesday for the Twins. The Athletics hadn't announced a scheduled starter.
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Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton hits a double that scores two runs against the Athletics during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Minnesota Twins pitcher Kody Funderburk, right, celebrates with Christian Vázquez, left, after their victory over the Athletics in a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa, right, throws to first for the double play against the Athletics during the ninth inning of a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa celebrates with teammates after their victory over the Athletics in a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton steals second base against the Athletics during the sixth inning of a baseball game Monday, June 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — First responders on Sunday entered a contested neighborhood in Syria’ s northern city of Aleppo after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. Syrian state media said the military was deployed in large numbers.
The clashes broke out Tuesday in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force in the country, failed to make progress on how to merge the SDF into the national army. Security forces captured Achrafieh and Bani Zaid.
The fighting between the two sides was the most intense since the fall of then-President Bashar Assad to insurgents in December 2024. At least 23 people were killed in five days of clashes and more than 140,000 were displaced amid shelling and drone strikes.
The U.S.-backed SDF, which have played a key role in combating the Islamic State group in large swaths of eastern Syria, are the largest force yet to be absorbed into Syria's national army. Some of the factions that make up the army, however, were previously Turkish-backed insurgent groups that have a long history of clashing with Kurdish forces.
The Kurdish fighters have now evacuated from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood to northeastern Syria, which is under the control of the SDF. However, they said in a statement they will continue to fight now that the wounded and civilians have been evacuated, in what they called a “partial ceasefire.”
The neighborhood appeared calm Sunday. The United Nations said it was trying to dispatch more convoys to the neighborhoods with food, fuel, blankets and other urgent supplies.
Government security forces brought journalists to tour the devastated area, showing them the damaged Khalid al-Fajer Hospital and a military position belonging to the SDF’s security forces that government forces had targeted.
The SDF statement accused the government of targeting the hospital “dozens of times” before patients were evacuated. Damascus accused the Kurdish-led group of using the hospital and other civilian facilities as military positions.
On one street, Syrian Red Crescent first responders spoke to a resident surrounded by charred cars and badly damaged residential buildings.
Some residents told The Associated Press that SDF forces did not allow their cars through checkpoints to leave.
“We lived a night of horror. I still cannot believe that I am right here standing on my own two feet,” said Ahmad Shaikho. “So far the situation has been calm. There hasn’t been any gunfire.”
Syrian Civil Defense first responders have been disarming improvised mines that they say were left by the Kurdish forces as booby traps.
Residents who fled are not being allowed back into the neighborhood until all the mines are cleared. Some were reminded of the displacement during Syria’s long civil war.
“I want to go back to my home, I beg you,” said Hoda Alnasiri.
Associated Press journalist Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.
Sandbag barriers used as fighting positions by Kurdish fighters, left inside a destroyed mosque in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Burned vehicles at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
People flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A Syrian military police convoy enters the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Burned vehicles and ammunitions left at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
