NEW YORK _ Didi got another "CC."
After homering for the fourth straight game _ a career best _ Didi Gregorius emerged from the Yankee dugout in the third inning to answer the fans' curtain call.
The shortstop led another offensive barrage that lifted the Yankees past Minnesota, 7-4, and put them in position to complete a four-game sweep in Thursday's series finale.
Gregorius went 3-for-3 with a pair of walks (one intentional) and extended his hit streak to nine games. With two more RBIs, he extended his major league-leading total to 29.
Chad Green (2-0) picked up the win in relief of Sonny Gray, who lasted 42/3 innings and allowed three runs on six hits while walking five.
Aroldis Chapman pitched a scoreless ninth for his fourth save.
Yankee starters had gone at least six innings and allowed one run or fewer in four straight games prior to Wednesday, all wins.
That streak went by the wayside three batters into the game, when Miguel Sano reached Gray for a two-run homer that sailed to the back of the Twins bullpen in left-center.
True to form, New York responded immediately. The first three batters in the home first all singled, with Gregorius driving home Brett Gardner.
Two more home runs put the Yankees ahead in a four-run third. Gregorius' ninth of the season tied it with two outs, and three batters later, Tyler Austin got his fifth, a three-run shot that scored Giancarlo Stanton and Gary Sanchez.
Gray came close to completing five innings for just the second time this season. With two outs and two on, Eduardo Escobar ran the count full, and on the ninth pitch (Gray's 104th of the game), he took one on the borderline to load the bases.
Chad Green came in to retire Logan Morrison on a pop out to third, the first two bases-full jams the New York bullpen escaped on the night.
Left-hander Chasen Shreve did likewise in the seventh after relieving Green with the bases loaded. Shreve struck out Morrison and induced a Robbie Grossman foul out, which the first baseman Austin tracked down with a sliding catch.
In the fourth, Gleyber Torres collected his first extra-base hit in the majors, a double to left-center on the sixth pitch of his at-bat. Aaron Judge later drove him home with a sacrifice fly. Torres also put together a six-pitch at-bat in the sixth before grounding out, and in the eighth, he singled on an 0-2 pitch after fouling off two and scored on a Giancarlo Stanton sac fly. He and Austin (2-for-5) joined Gregorius with multi-hit outings for the Yankees.
