(Sports Network) - Adam Lind knocked in a pair, including the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Minnesota Twins, 3-2, in the finale of a four-game set at Rogers Centre.

Jose Bautista hit a solo homer for the Blue Jays, who earned a split in the series and have won three of five overall.

Brett Cecil (7-4) earned the win after tossing six effective innings. The rookie left-hander allowed two runs on seven hits, walked one and fanned three.

Denard Span homered and Orlando Cabrera had two hits, including an RBI single for Minnesota, which has dropped five of its last eight and fell six games behind Detroit for the top spot in the American League Central. The Tigers are playing at Kansas City on Thursday.

Scott Baker (13-8) was the hard-luck loser after yielding three runs on five hits in 6 2/3 innings of work. The righty, who was 7-0 with a 3.04 earned run average in his last 11 appearances coming into the contest, struck out seven and walked four.

With the score deadlocked at 2-2, John McDonald doubled to leadoff the fifth and took third on a groundout. After Travis Snider walked, Lind's sac fly to right brought in McDonald to put the Blue Jays in front 3-2.

The Toronto bullpen allowed only one walk the rest of the way with Jason Frasor working a perfect ninth inning to earn his eighth save of the season.

Lind's RBI double in the first gave the Blue Jays the early lead. Span then tied things at 1-1 in the third with a leadoff homer to right, his seventh of the season.

Bautista cracked a two-out solo homer to left in the fourth to briefly put Toronto in front, but Minnesota evened the game in the top of the fifth. Nick Punto got the inning started with a double and crossed the plate two batters later on an RBI single by Cabrera.

Game Notes

Minnesota will begin a nine-game homestand against Oakland on Friday, while Toronto starts a nine-game road trip at Detroit...The Twins finished 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base, while the Blue Jays went 0-for-7 with RISP and stranded six...Minnesota, which won for only the second time in its past 10 visits to the Rogers Centre...Toronto won 14 of its past 17 meetings with Minnesota.



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