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MINNEAPOLIS — Chris Sale won his major league-leading 15th game with six crisp innings, Jorge Soler homered early and threw out a runner at the plate late, and the resurgent Atlanta Braves beat the struggling Minnesota Twins 5-1 to complete a three-game sweep. Sale continued his comeback season by stretching his streak of allowing two earned runs or fewer to 14 straight starts. He had six strikeouts to match San Diego's Dylan Cease for the major league lead with 197. That also set a single-season Braves franchise record for a left-hander. The Braves pulled within five games of NL East leader Philadelphia.
