How about shouting a “hip, hooray” for the bottom of the Twins’ batting order?

Brooks Lee and Christian Vázquez, the Twins’ Nos. 8 and 9 hitters, hit back-to-back home runs, Willi Castro, batting sixth, had three hits, and Minnesota beat Toronto 6-3 Sunday at Target Field to end a three-game slide.

Eight of Minnesota’s 12 hits came from its bottom four hitters. Through five innings, all seven Twins hits and five runs came from that quartet.

“We’ve got good guys at the bottom of the lineup, too, with Ty (France), me and Vazky right now, for that game. I think we all did it today, but those are special days,” Lee said.

France had two hits to extend his career-high by reaching base in 20 straight games. The last Twin to do that was Edouard Julien, who reached in 23 straight games from Sept. 6, 2023 through March 30, 2024.

Carlos Correa, the team’s cleanup hitter, had hits in the sixth and eighth innings, as did Royce Lewis, who came on as a pinch-hitter in the fifth. Byron Buxton earned three of the team’s eight walks, which matched a season high for the team.

“Our guys, up and down the lineup, just dominated the strike zone today and just refused to expand and swing at very many pitches at all out of the zone,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “Their guys have really good stuff, and they get ahead, and then they throw tons of pitches that look really good. But they’re not strikes. And they just continue to throw them. And a lot of the times it’s tough, and you swing at them.”

“… But our guys were very prepared and very focused and pretty relentless in the way we were looking for a certain pitch in a certain spot, and that’s all we offered at. I was really proud of that. I thought that was fantastic.”

Down 3-2 in the fourth, Lee lofted — at a 40-degree launch angle — a home run just inside the right-field foul pole. Six pitches later, on a full count, Vázquez hammered a home run to the first row of the second deck just inside the left-field foul pole.

It’s the second time this season for back-to-back Twins round-trippers. DaShawn Keirsey Jr. and Byron Buxton did it May 15 at Baltimore.

“We had a lot of baserunners, because of the types of at-bats we talked about,” Baldelli said. “But that really nice turning point in the game were the two homers. Sometimes you just need some guys to come up big and have a big at-bat. I don’t think those guys are going up there aiming for pull-side homers. I think they just reacted and got the barrel to pitches.”

The Twins sent eight batters to the plate in the fifth, scoring just two runs and leaving the bases loaded. Minnesota also had the bases loaded with one out in the sixth, but Myles Straw threw out Correa at the plate trying to score on a medium-depth fly ball.

Minnesota was 3 for 12 with runners in scoring position and left 13 men on base.

Joe Ryan (7-2) needed 92 pitches to get through five innings; however, the final two were 1-2-3 affairs. The latter ended with a fine defensive play by Correa who charged in and scooped the ball directly from his glove to second baseman Kody Clemens at second base to begin a double play.

A fifth-inning walk was Toronto’s lone baserunner in a six-inning span.

Brock Stewart, Cole Sands and Griffin Jax each tossed an easy inning before Jhoan Duran earned his 10th save with a scoreless ninth.