MINNEAPOLIS -- After 10 straight fastballs with the home crowd cheering and the bases loaded behind him, Jose Quintana threw an

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MINNEAPOLIS -- After 10 straight fastballs with the home crowd cheering and the bases loaded behind him, Jose Quintana threw an 80-mph curveball to freeze Ryan Doumit. Cody Zeller Hornets Jersey . Home plate umpire Bill Miller called strike three, the crowd groaned loudly and Quintana calmly went back to the Chicago White Sox dugout. After that, Quintana made it look easy the rest of the way, Adam Dunn and Jeff Keppinger both homered and Chicago beat the Minnesota Twins 5-2 on Friday night to snap its 10-game road losing streak. It was a far cry from Quintanas last start -- a five-run, five-inning outing Sunday against the Twins in Chicago. "The only thing (I) did was try to attack early," Quintana said through a translator. "(I) tried to come in and attack earlier, throw strikes to every single one of the batters, and thankfully everything worked out. (I) was able to get them back." Quintana (7-4) scattered six hits over 6 2-3 innings, giving up two runs and striking out seven. Joe Mauer homered in the first for Minnesota, but Keppinger and Dunn both hit solo shots off Twins starter Kevin Correia (8-9) in the third to make it 4-1. "They got us pretty good at home," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "We havent had too many of those where weve hit them like that. It was nice." A night after watching the Twins win by a run in walk-off fashion, the White Sox and Quintana looked to be in for yet another rough outing when Mauer lined a 3-2 offering into the right-field seats to put Minnesota up 1-0. Mauer also had homered off Quintana on Sunday. And considering Quintanas 4.21 run support average coming in, the 15th-lowest in the AL this season, things didnt look very promising. But Dayan Viciedo put Chicago up with a two-RBI single in the second before Keppinger and Dunn added all the insurance runs Quintana needed. "Their guy threw the ball really well," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "It was coming out of his hand really nice. He mixes pitches well. The guys were saying hes very deceptive and has a little jump on his fastball." Quintana set the Twins down in order three times. But his biggest test came in the third when the Twins loaded the bases with two outs in the third and Doumit came to the plate. "Seems like it lasted what a normal inning would last," Ventura said. "He just kind of gutted it out and went extra-long for us tonight." Quintana is 3-0 on the road this season. Correia pitched well aside from the third inning, retiring 12 of the 14 batters he faced after Dunns homer. "I felt like my stuff was good," Correia said. "I think thats just how baseball is sometimes. Sometimes they hit it to people, sometimes they miss a mistake. The second time around, theyre usually not going to miss any many mistakes." Minnesota added a run in the seventh when Brian Dozier drove in Wilkin Ramirez on a two-out single to chase Quintana. Reliever Donnie Veal walked Mauer but struck out Justin Morneau to end the inning. Chicago made it 5-2 in the eighth when Trevor Plouffes bad throw from third hit Paul Konerko, allowing Keppinger to score. Nate Jones pitched a scoreless eighth and Addison Reed worked the ninth for his 29th save in 34 chances. Notes: Chicago INF Gordon Beckham was held out of the starting lineup after leaving Thursday nights game with a strained right quadriceps. But he entered the game at second in the eighth. ... White Sox 3B Conor Gillaspie left with a bruised left hand and is day to day. ... The Twins activated Doumit from the DL before the game. Doumit missed eight games after leaving Minnesotas game Aug. 7 at Kansas City with concussion-like symptoms. The Twins optioned IF Chris Colabello to Triple-A Rochester to make room for Doumit on the roster. ... Viciedo returned to the lineup after missing six straight games with a sore left thumb. ... 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"Genie and Milos have inspired a nation – and the best part is that theyre just getting started," said Stewart Johnston, President of TSN. "With their brilliant performances at this years Wimbldeon, along with a phenomenal championship title from Vasek Pospisil, we join all of Canada in anticipation of what they will do next. Its a new era for Canadian tennis and we couldnt be prouder to showcase their Grand Slam performances on TSN." Overnight data from BBM Canada confirms that Bouchards match against Petra Kvitova in Saturdays womens final drew an average audience of 1.8 million viewers to TSN and RDS – making it the most-watched Wimbldeon womens final on record. Overall, 3.6 million unique viewers tuned in to watch Bouchard become the first Canadian singles player to compete in a Grand Slam final, wiith audiences peaking at 1. Dell Curry Hornets Jersey. million viewers in the last few minutes of the match. Sundays epic mens final that saw Novak Djokovic defeat seven-time Wimbldeon champion Roger Federer in a five-set instant classic attracted an average audience of 823,000 viewers to TSN and RDS and a reach of 3.8 million unique viewers – making it the most-watched Wimbldeon mens final on record. On Friday, Raonic reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career, attracting an average audience of 766,000 viewers to TSN and RDS for his battle against Federer. The Raonic-Federer match reached 2.4 million unique viewers and peaked at 1.1 million viewers as Federer served for the win. Canadas Vasek Pospisil and his partner Jack Sock of the U.S.A. – an unseeded duo playing together for the first time – won the Wimbldeon mens doubles title over defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan in a match that drew an average audience of 319,000 to TSN and RDS and a reach of 2.2 million unique viewers. *For electronic measurement data that dates back to 1994. 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