Byron Buxton and Harrison Bader have drawn rave reviews for their defense this season — and for good reason. The pair of Gold Glovers have shown off with the leather all year long, letting few balls touch grass.

On Wednesday night, they helped the team in a different way: Both launched home runs, driving in all five of the Twins’ runs in their 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles at Target Field.

For Buxton, when he got ahold of a first-pitch curveball from Charlie Morton out to left field in the third inning, it was his third home run in as many games. A day after driving in four runs, the center fielder added another three — all on that swing — as he gave the Twins (17-20) a 3-1 lead.

As Buxton has heated up, so have the Twins.

“When he hits the ball at that good angle … they keep going. They’re not scraping walls or anything like that,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “When his timing is good, he’s staying through the ball well, which he is right now, that’s what you see. We reap the benefits of that. We end up winning games because of that.”

Buxton finished with two hits, something he has been doing a lot lately — in five of his last six games, to be specific. Buxton now has hits in seven straight games and 10 of his last 11.

“Most of the time, when that happens, it comes in bunches,” Buxton said. “So it’s just riding the wave a little bit.”

Bader’s longball came much later. A day after being scratched from the Twins’ lineup due to an illness, Bader had just one at-bat on Tuesday — and did everything the Twins could have hoped for with it.

After hitting three home runs in the team’s first six games of the season, Bader was homerless until the seventh inning of Wednesday’s game, when he hit the second pitch of his at-bat out to left for the first pinch-hit home run of his career.

“Getting him out there against a lefty (Keegan Akin) just seemed like it made some sense,” Baldelli said. “It worked out probably even better than you can imagine.”

The two-run home run gave the Twins some breathing room after the Orioles (13-22) had made it a 3-2 game earlier.

Starter Simeon Woods Richardson ran into some trouble in the fifth inning, giving up three straight hits — and a run — before Danny Coulombe came in to face his old teammates and quickly stranded a pair of runners by getting Cedric Mullins to strike out swinging.

Louie Varland entered next to protect the Twins’ slim advantage, which he did successfully — with some acrobatics.

With a pair of runners on, Varland got Jackson Holliday to hit a groundball to the right side of the infield. Varland got off the mound quickly, chasing after it and tumbling over as he grabbed the ball before shoveling it to first baseman Ty France while seated on the infield dirt.

Varland, known for his barking, was greeted in the dugout by a bunch of his teammates making his signature sound.

“It wasn’t graceful,” Varland said. “I’m glad I made the play, because if I didn’t, I’d look like an idiot.”

Brock Stewart, Griffin Jax and Jhoan Duran followed him into the game, each throwing a scoreless inning of their own to run the Twins’ winning streak to four. It’s the Twins’ second four-game winning streak in their past 12 games.

“This is us. It’s fun to see,” Buxton said. “We know how good we are, and it’s just all about coming out here, doing what we’re supposed to do and making the little plays. And the little ones turn into big ones.”