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MINNEAPOLIS -- Kennys Vargas, Max Kepler and Miguel Sano hit home runs, Tommy Milone beat his old team and the Minnesota Twins topped the Oakland Athletics 11-4 in a game that ended early Wednesday morning after a severe thunderstorm delayed the start by 2 hours and 42 minutes.Marcus Semien hit his 18th home run in the second, but that was all the As managed against Milone (1-2). Winning for the first time in eight starts since Sept. 28, Milone finished the sixth inning for only the second time this season. He allowed five hits and one walk to the team that traded him to the Twins two summers ago.Milone averaged 4 1/2 innings over his first six starts this year. With top prospect Jose Berrios on a tear for Triple-A Rochester, the left-hander was likely pitching to keep his spot in the rotation.Danny Valencia hit a three-run homer in the eighth to bring the As within 7-4, but Sano hit his three-run shot in the bottom of the inning to seal it and help the Twins (28-55) move ahead of Atlanta (28-56) in the race for the worst record in the major leagues.Vargas, recalled Monday from Triple-A Rochester, went deep for the first time since June 22, 2015, with a two-run, two-out home run in the fifth against Sean Manaea (3-5). Then Kepler homered on the next pitch.After a meager four-hit performance Monday, the Twins brought their bats to life. Kurt Suzuki, another former As player, had two RBI. Byron Buxton had two doubles, driving in one.The dark clouds rolled in early enough to cancel batting practice, but with both teams scheduled to travel Wednesday evening (Minnesota to Texas and Oakland to Houston) the preference on both sides was to avoid a doubleheader. So they waited out the heavy rain, swirling wind and thunder and lightning, and the tarp was pulled off the infield at 9:17 p.m. local time. The game started at 9:52 p.m. and ended at 1 a.m.Paid attendance was announced at 16,938, the smallest crowd in Target Fields seven seasons. The upper decks were completely empty and the actual number of people in the seats at first pitch couldnt have been much more than 1,000. The Twins granted fans ticket exchanges for a future game because of the long delay.ALL-STAR SELECTIONSOakland catcher Stephen Vogt was selected for his second All-Star Game. He had the night off.Minnesota shortstop Eduardo Nunez was picked for his first All-Star Game. He went 2 for 5 with a double and an RBI.TRAINERS ROOMOakland reserve catcher Josh Phegley, placed Sunday on the DL, had minor surgery in San Francisco to remove a cruciate ligament cyst on the inside of his right knee that was causing swelling and inflammation. Hell be reassessed in 10 days. Matt McBride has taken over as the backup.Buxton was back in the Minnesota lineup after two days off to rest bumps and bruises. He crashed hard into the wall in left-center making a catch in the game Friday. In the seventh inning, Buxton made a sprinting grab of Jake Smolinskis smashed line drive and collided with the fence around the same spot.UP NEXTOakland RHP Sonny Gray (3-7, 5.42 ERA) will pitch Wednesday against Minnesota RHP Ervin Santana (2-7, 4.50 ERA) in the series finale.Gray is 0-2 with a 4.42 ERA in six starts since coming off the DL due to a trapezius muscle strain between his shoulder and neck. 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Aside from the trilogy main event title fight, there are a number of intriguing matchups in the heavyweight, welterweight and lightweight divisions.Novak Djokovic takes on talented teenager Borna Coric at the Madrid Open on Wednesday, aiming to improve his clay-court season.2016 ATP Masters 1000 winners Indian Wells Novak Djokovic Miami Novak Djokovic Monte Carlo Rafa Nadal The world No 1 is bidding to bounce back from his shock second-round defeat at the hands of Jiri Vesely at the Monte Carlo Masters last month and will face 19-year-old Coric, who saw off Nicolas Almagro on Tuesday.Djokovic has won the Madrid Masters crown on one previous occasion, back in 2011 and he will want to up his clay-court preparations as he bids to win the one Grand Slam crown that has so far evaded him - the French Open. Roland-Garros gets underway on May 22 and despite his wobble in Monte Carlo, the Serb has already claimed two of the three Masters titles this year as well as the Australian Open.Djokovic is meeting Coric for the first time but the Croatian teenager already has two finals under his belt this season, including one on clay in Marrakech.Coverage on Sky Sports 1 gets underway at 11am on Wednesday and there is an all-Spanish affair to kick off proceedings on the show courts with Feliciano Lopez up against Roberto Bautista-Agut, while Jo-Wilfried Tsonga takes on Albert Ramos-Vinolas.David Ferrer is up against American qualifier Denis Kudla, Juan Martin Del Potro will look to continue his return to form when he meets Jack Sock while eighth seed Tomas Berdych faces Denis Istomin. Masters of their Trade Nadal and Djokovic at the top of the tree One to WatchFourth seed Stan Wawrinka has been woefully out of sorts since winning the Dubai Open in February and Australias Nick Kyrgios is a very obvious threat - the pair also have previous after a verbal altercation in Montreal revolving around Wawrinkas girlfriend Donna Vekic.Already this season, the 21-year-old from Canberra has claimed his maiden ATP title with a win in Marseille and made no fewer than three semi-finals, one of which ended in him retiring injured against Wawrinka in Dubai while the Aussie produced a career best Masters effort in reaching the last four in Miami Masters. Stan Wawrinka and Nick Kyrgios have not always seen eye-to-eye Wawrinka, a double Grand Slam champion, has suffered defeats to David Goffin and Andrey Kuznetsov in Masters events thhis year and despite a run to the semi-final in Monte Carlo, he was outgunned by Rafa Nadal and could be an early casualty in Spain this week.ddddddddddddSurprise in StoreThe clay is always capable of throwing up an upset or two and already this week weve had 12th seed David Goffin and 14th seed Dominic Thiem fall by the wayside as well as Grigor Dimitrov, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Bernard Tomic falling to players ranked below them. Fabio Fognini , the maverick Italian capable of stunning the worlds best Wednesday could be a similar tale with Italian maverick and clay-court specialist Fabio Fognini more than capable of surprising number six seed Kei Nishikori.Fognini beat Tomic on Tuesday in their first round encounter and while he has been below his best for much of the season with several early exits, but coupled with his favourite surface, a top-ten player and a high-profile event that is usually when the mercurial Italian is at his best.The pair have met on one previous occasion with Nishikori victorious in four sets at the 2011 Australian Open, and Fognini is a very different threat on the red dirt with all three of his career titles coming on clay. In Case You Missed ItBernard Tomic was a first round casualty on Tuesday and effectively handed his opponent victory at match point in Madrid. Novak Djokovic is out to make amends for an early exit in Monte Carlo Rafa Nadal moved into the the last 16 with a routine win over Andrey Kuznetsov and Andy Murray saw of a resiliant and at times inspired Radek Stepanek to advance. Murrays Masters route Who could Andy Murray face in Madrid? You can follow all the action from Madrid on Wednesday with the action getting underway on Sky Sports 1 from 11am.Also See:Barry Cowans Madrid questionsMurrays Masters routeLatest scoresSign in to watch on Sky Sports 1 ' ' '