Twins prospects flex muscle at Beloit

Twins prospects Daniel Ortiz and Oswaldo Arcia are having no problems adjusting in their first full seasons of pro ball -- Ortiz is batting .377 and Arcia .352. Between the two, they've socked 11 home runs since the start of the Midwest League season.

They were at it again in Saturday's matinee. Ortiz went yard twice and Arcia chipped in a two-run dinger in the Beloit Snappers' 10-8, 10-inning loss to the Peoria Chiefs.

The pair went back-to-back in the first inning and Ortiz started a barrage of three straight homers in the eighth, with Michael Gonzalez belting his second homer of the afternoon and Josmil Pinto tacking on his first of the year.

Arcia, who homered twice on Tuesday and smacked another on Wednesday, ranks among the Twins' top outfield prospects. He also contributed an RBI double Saturday. A 19-year-old Venezuelan, he led the Rookie-level Appalachian League with a .375 batting average and 51 RBIs and was second with 14 home runs for Elizabethton last season.

Ortiz, a 21-year-old outfielder taken in the fourth round of the 2008 Draft, also homered Friday and was 3-for-4 with a walk during his two-homer Saturday. After missing the 2009 season due to a knee injury, he played alongside Arcia on the E-Twins last year, hitting .259 with 11 homers and 43 RBIs in 62 games.

The consecutive homers in the eighth put the Snappers up, 8-7, but the Chiefs scratched a run across in the ninth and scored five times in the 10th, starting with Smaily Borges' second longball of the game.

The loss ended the Snappers' four-game winning streak.