Aaron Slegers picked up his first major league win with six smooth innings, Jake Cave reached base all four times he batted, and the Twins stopped their six-game losing streak by hanging on for a 5-2 victory over the lowly Baltimore Orioles.

Logan Morrison homered and Cave drove in an eighth-inning insurance run with one of his two doubles for the Twins, who turned to Fernando Rodney in the ninth for his 18th save following two consecutive blown chances.

Slegers (1-0) gave up only one run, on the first of two homers by Jonathan Schoop.