ARLINGTON -- Once the dust finally settled from a 10-inning, back-and-forth affair between the Twins and Rangers on Saturday night, it was Minnesota that reigned supreme.

After finding themselves in an early four-run deficit, the Twins’ offense caught fire to complete the comeback, beating the Rangers, 9-7, at Globe Life Field.

• Games remaining: at TEX (1), at CLE (3), vs NYM (3), vs TB (3), at CWS (4), at CIN (3), vs LAA (3), vs OAK (3), at COL (3)

• Standings update: With the Guardians also winning on Saturday, the Twins maintained a five-game lead for the American League Central title. Minnesota (71-65) is the third-seeded division winner, meaning the club would host a three-game Wild Card Series vs. the final AL Wild Card entrant.

Donovan Solano was the driving force behind the comeback effort, as the infielder tied a career high with four hits -- including a solo home run -- and drove in three runs against Texas.

“He was unbelievable today,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “It’s crazy because he was sick as a dog yesterday. I mean, he was extremely sick. We even had to send him home because he wasn’t able to play.

“Then he came in today and said he’s feeling better. He’s definitely not 100 percent, but his health improved and he came ready to play. He’s been raking all year, and tonight was more of the same of what we’ve seen from him.”

Solano’s Statcast-projected 403-foot blast came in the top of the third inning and gave the Twins their first run of the game.

“I’ve worked a lot on my routine,” Solano said. “I’m just trying to hit the ball hard. When I hit the homer, I didn’t expect it to go that far and was surprised it went into the second deck.”

The following inning, Minnesota’s offense erupted for five runs on four hits and two walks to force Texas southpaw Jordan Montgomery out of the game early.

Impressively, each of those five runs came with two outs. After Royce Lewis and Carlos Correa were retired to start the frame, Jordan Luplow reached safely on a single to center field. Kyle Farmer followed by drawing a walk before Ryan Jeffers scored Luplow on a single to left field.

After Matt Wallner walked to load the bases, Michael A. Taylor scorched a two-run double to left field to tie the game, 4-4. With runners on second and third, Solano delivered a two-run single to give the Twins their first lead of the ballgame.

“Our offense was unrelenting,” Baldelli said. “We put together great at-bats. A lot of guys had great at-bats. Solano led the way, but we had a lot of guys that played great.”

The lead didn’t last, though, as the Rangers tacked on two more runs to push the game to extra innings.

In the top of the 10th, the Twins got the best of hard-throwing lefty Aroldis Chapman, scoring three runs before Jhoan Duran allowed just one run in the bottom of the inning to close out the game.

With Saturday’s nail-biter of a victory, Minnesota won its second series against Texas in the last week.

“When you’re playing a close game and lose the lead late, there’s some teams that would let that get them down,” Baldelli said. “Some teams wouldn’t be able to recover, but we recovered. We just found a way today against a good team. I was very impressed with how we played today.”