MINNEAPOLIS -- Oswaldo Arcia hit a single off closer Huston Street in the 12th inning to lift the Twins to a 3-2 walk-off win and complete a three-game sweep of the Angels on Sunday at Target Field.

With Byron Buxton at second base with two outs after a stolen base, Arcia lifted a fly ball into the left-field corner just out of the reach of a diving Rafael Ortega. It allowed Buxton to score the winning run in Minnesota's first walk-off win of the season.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Angels watched as the bullpen squandered a lead for the third time in the three-game series with the Twins on Sunday. Then the bats couldn't provide an answer as the game went into extra innings.

Albert Pujols hit the 562nd home run of his career to open the scoring in the first inning, but the Angels couldn't add on in Sunday's 3-2 walk-off loss in 12 innings.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney is progressing, but he isn't close to returning to the mound from a left flexor muscle strain.

Heaney has played catch before the weekend games here at Target Field. However, manager Mike Scioscia said Heaney hasn't started long toss and there is no timetable for him to start throwing from a mound.

The White Sox return home for just their second series of the season as they host the Angels on Monday to open a four-game set at U.S. Cellular Field.

Left-hander Hector Santiago gets the start as the Angels continue their 10-game road trip. Santiago is coming off his longest outing with the Angels -- 7 2/3 innings in a no-decision against Oakland last Tuesday.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Angels reliever Joe Smith isn't accustomed to giving up runs in general, and even less so via the long ball. However, on Saturday at Target Field, he surrendered two homers in an inning for the first time in his career, leading to Minnesota's 6-4 victory.

With one out in the eighth, Smith threw a 2-0 sinker low-and-away to Oswaldo Arcia, who went with the pitch, depositing it into the bullpen in left-center for the go-ahead run. Byung Ho Park then punished a 2-2 hanging slider to dead center. The homer was measured at 462 feet.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Reports on Tyler Skaggs' latest rehab outing were positive as the young lefty makes his way back from Tommy John surgery. He struck out five over three innings for Triple-A Salt Lake on Friday, allowing two unearned runs. He threw 41 pitches.

"He felt good, especially as the outing went along," manager Mike Scioscia said.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Angels placed outfielder Daniel Nava on the 15-day disabled list with left patella tendinitis on Saturday before their game with the Twins. The club recalled Rafael Ortega from Triple-A Salt Lake to take Nava's spot on the roster. Ortega is batting second in his debut for the Angels on Saturday.

Nava, who was signed to a one-year, $1.375 million deal last offseason, has been dealing with multiple ailments already this season.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Oswaldo Arcia and Byung Ho Park connected on back-to-back homers in the eighth inning to lift the Twins to a 6-4 win over the Angels on Saturday afternoon at Target Field.

Arcia, relegated to backup outfielder status after his struggles last year, made the most of his first homer of the season, crushing a solo shot off reliever Joe Smith. Park followed with a mammoth blast of his own over the batter's eye in center field. It was the second homer of the year for the Korean slugger. The last time the Twins had back-to-back homers was on Aug. 15, 2015, when Eddie Rosario and Chris Herrmann hit consecutive blasts.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Using four pitchers in one inning certainly wasn't how Angels manager Mike Scioscia envisioned trying to get through the Twins' order in Friday night's 5-4 loss at Target Field.

Matchups, and necessity, have defined Scioscia's decision-making early this season.

MINNEAPOLIS -- From the time Angels left-hander Hector Santiago made his Major League debut in 2011, he's collected jerseys.

Back then, Santiago was with the White Sox. He held on to his No. 42 for Jackie Robinson Day. The next year, he kept his special jersey for Jackie Robinson Day again. Year after year, Santiago doesn't let the No. 42 get away.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins got their first win of the season and it came in comeback fashion, as they rallied for two runs in the seventh before Byung Ho Park put in them in front with an RBI double in the eighth in a 5-4 win over the Angels on Friday night at Target Field.

The Twins (1-9) trailed by two in the seventh after Albert Pujols' game-tying homer and Kole Calhoun's two-run blast that knocked lefty Tommy Milone from the game.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Angels bullpen coach Scott Radinsky has returned to Southern California after visiting an Oakland hospital on Wednesday for chest pains.

Radinsky didn't travel with the team for its three-game series against the Twins at Target Field that started on Friday, and Angels manager Mike Scioscia said Radinsky wouldn't join the team for its upcoming trip to Chicago, either.

OAKLAND -- Kole Calhoun profiled more so as a middle-of-the-order bat, but the Angels' lack of on-base ability and Calhoun's versatility vaulted him to the top of their lineup, directly in front of Mike Trout for the vast majority of his first two full seasons in the Major Leagues.

The Angels don't believe that is necessary now, though. They see Yunel Escobar and Daniel Nava -- or Craig Gentry, when a lefty starts -- as legitimate on-base threats that can feed Trout ample RBI opportunities. And because of that, they're able to take advantage of Calhoun's ability to drive in runs.

OAKLAND -- As ugly as the results may have been, Matt Shoemaker came out of his last start believing he wasn't far off from performing like the starting pitcher he wants to be. He was charged with six runs and recorded only nine outs against the Rangers, but he felt his stuff was good and his location was sufficient, and that only a little bit of luck would've changed the complexion of his outing.

Then he took the mound at the Oakland Coliseum and got the type of results he had been searching for.

OAKLAND -- Right-hander Matt Shoemaker strung together six scoreless innings on Wednesday afternoon, limiting the A's to one hit while getting an assist from Kole Calhoun and Albert Pujols, who each drove in a pair of runs to help the Angels secure their fourth straight win, 5-1, for a three-game series sweep at the Oakland Coliseum.

Calhoun finished with three hits, including a double in the eighth, when he scored on Andrelton Simmons' ensuing base hit. The A's, meanwhile, managed just three hits all day, one of them a home run from shortstop Marcus Semien in the eighth inning -- his third in two days and fourth this season.

OAKLAND -- Angels center fielder Mike Trout honored Kobe Bryant on Wednesday with special, custom-made cleats and batting gloves to commemorate the Los Angeles Lakers great prior to the final game of his NBA career.

Trout's usual custom-made Nikes were painted black and gold, while his standard batting gloves were black, purple and gold with Bryant's emblem on the index finger and his two jersey numbers -- 8 and 24 -- stitched below the palm. Trout couldn't wear the shoes during the 5-1 win over the A's because they aren't the Angels' official colors, but he was able to keep the batting gloves on.

OAKLAND -- Mike Trout started off missing everything left, but then suddenly the superstar center fielder got hot. He nailed a shot from the corner, then two in a row from about 26 feet away. And Draymond Green -- NBA champion, integral member of arguably the greatest basketball team ever assembled -- lost the impromptu game of P-I-G, a shorter version of H-O-R-S-E.

Steph Curry wasn't having it.

OAKLAND -- Catcher Geovany Soto delivered a go-ahead, two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning off A's closer Sean Doolittle to give the Angels their third straight win, a 5-4 series-clinching victory at the Coliseum on Tuesday night.

Soto's first home run of the season, a blast to left-center field following a one-out walk to C.J. Cron, overshadowed a two-homer day from Marcus Semien. The A's shortstop tagged Angels starter Hector Santiago for a homer to left to lead off the third, then again with two outs in the seventh for his second career multi-homer day.

OAKLAND -- Players will tell you, almost unanimously, that the hardest part of their jobs is to be productive with sporadic opportunities. Hitting is a craft that must be worked on daily, but Major League pitching is a skill that can't be simulated. Geovany Soto tries, though.

He is 33 now, early in his 12th season and gradually transitioning into a backup role. So three-to-four times a week, he finds the pitching machine, sets it up in the batting cage and turns up the velocity as high as it goes, generating fastballs that travel into the mid-90s to keep his mind sharp and, as he said, "get your hands to fire."

OAKLAND -- C.J. Cron's 2016 season is starting off similarly to his 2015 season.

The Angels hope he recovers a lot quicker.

OAKLAND -- Mike Trout crushed his first home run of the season against Sonny Gray, a two-run shot that traveled roughly 430 feet, and Nick Tropeano kept the A's scoreless in his season debut, leading the Angels to a 4-1 victory at the Coliseum on Monday night.

Tropeano, filling the rotation spot of an injured Andrew Heaney, pitched five-plus innings, scattering six hits, walking two and striking out six. The 25-year-old right-hander has allowed only one run in 17 2/3 innings in his career against the A's.

OAKLAND -- When Angels starter Nick Tropeano took the mound to face the A's at the Oakland Coliseum on Monday night, it marked his first regular-season start and his first time pitching in any sort of game in nine days.

It was hard to notice.

OAKLAND -- Sonny Gray's first pitch to Mike Trout in the sixth inning Monday came in at 93 mph, low, slightly inside and reasonably well-located, especially for the first pitch of an at-bat.

"I thought it was a good sinker," Gray said, "but it sunk a little too much and went right to his barrel."

OAKLAND -- Greg Mahle began to play baseball at around the age of 5 and never much considered doing anything else.

Being here, in the Major Leagues?

ANAHEIM -- Geovany Soto had only caught Jered Weaver in the carefree environment of Spring Training, where results don't matter and intensity must be simulated. Then the veteran catcher crouched for Sunday's series finale against the Rangers, which just so happened to coincide with Weaver's regular-season debut, and Soto immediately noticed something different.

He saw "a guy with a chip on his shoulder."

ANAHEIM -- Jered Weaver entered his 2016 season with something to prove, and on Sunday, in his debut against the hard-hitting Rangers, the Angels' longtime ace made a statement.

With a fastball that topped out at 84 mph and a breaking ball that was thrown in the mid-60s, Weaver used pinpoint control and masterful pitch selection to hold the Rangers to just one run through six innings, setting the tone in the Angels' 3-1 victory in the series finale.