With the way the Twins have been playing, it’s starting to feel like they will inevitably find a way to win every day — it’s only a question of how.

Saturday, it was with some small ball and solid defense in support of six strong innings from ace Pablo López. Their combined efforts led the Twins to a 3-1 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday afternoon at Target Field.

It was their 12th straight victory, tying the second-longest winning streak in club history, which was achieved in 1980.

After they recorded the last out, a group of players huddled together for their new tradition — a celebration photo that seems to include more and more players by the day by the day.

“The picture, now everybody wants to be part of it,” shortstop Carlos Correa said. “Those are the little things that mean a lot to players, and you feel like you’re in a family atmosphere.”

The winning streak has certainly changed the vibes within the clubhouse, where things feel much looser than they did a couple of weeks ago.

Much of the turnaround has been supercharged by the offense. But the past two days have been marked by strong performances by their starting pitchers. Though not as dominant as Chris Paddack the night before, López did more than enough to hold up his part of the bargain.

“No one wants to be the guy that makes the streak stop in any way, shape or form,” López said. “I think I just took advantage of the momentum, the good thing that we have going on. And I let it take over me and then just let things flow.”

A laborious first inning for López resulted in one run for the Red Sox (18-16), but they were unable to get to López again. He went six innings, striking out eight and giving up five hits — but just three in the final five innings.

The Twins (19-13) trailed just briefly, as Jose Miranda, who was hit by a pitch, came around to score on a Correa ground ball to third in the bottom of the first.

Max Kepler’s second home run of the season sailed out to right-center field in the fourth inning. In the sixth, Willi Castro, who is on a 10-game hitting streak, singled to lead off the inning, advanced on a pair of wild pitches and came around to score on a Correa sacrifice fly to deep center.

The game got tense in the seventh inning upon Jorge Alcala’s entrance. Alcala was bailed out when the first batter, Dominic Smith, hit a ball off the wall in right field that Kepler played perfectly, throwing out Smith trying to reach second.

But Alcala got into some trouble later in the inning, unhelped on a check swing call by first base umpire Angel Hernandez that would have ended the inning. After lefty Steven Okert entered to finish off the frame, he walked Rob Refsnyder before getting Red Sox star Rafael Devers to strike out and strand the bases loaded.

Manager Rocco Baldelli said Okert joked that he just wanted to make them “sweat a little bit,” after he initially fell behind in the count.

“He’s a good hitter. (I was) a little too careful, obviously, missing the zone with the first two. So I came back,” Okert said. “Now he probably knows what’s coming, but obviously staying in the zone with the slider there, and luckily threw some good ones, and got through it.”

Jhoan Duran followed Okert to face the heart of the order in the eighth, and Cole Sands, who has seen more faith placed on him as the season has gone along, tossed a 1-2-3 inning in the ninth, closing out the Twins’ 12th straight.

“Any chance you have to win 12 in a row, that’s pretty special,” Correa said. “After the slow start that we had, it’s a perfect way to rebound and move forward.”