MILWAUKEE -- Corbin Burnes started on a sweltering afternoon befitting his surname. Rookie Abner Uribe brought the heat like never before from a Milwaukee pitcher. And the Brewers emerged from the hottest day at American Family Field in more than a decade with an 8-7 win over the Twins in 10 innings on Wednesday afternoon.

After the Twins scratched out a one-run lead in the top of the 10th inning, the Brewers came back thanks to Willy Adames’ tying single to lead off the inning and Brice Turang’s winning single to end it -- a two-out chopper to third base for the rookie’s first walk-off hit in the big leagues.

By enduring the 100-degree temperature and outlasting the Twins, the Brewers (70-57) won their fifth consecutive game and pushed 13 games over .500 for the first time since last July. They maintained their 3 1/2-game lead over the second-place Cubs (66-60) in the National League Central. A postgame blast of air conditioning never felt so good.

“It’s like anything, you just have to stay in the fight,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “We’ve been rewarded for staying in the fight. It hasn’t always been super hard contact, but we stayed in the fight and got positive results.”

It was 97 degrees when Burnes fired his first pitch, the third-hottest game day at the stadium since it opened as Miller Park in 2001. The ballpark is equipped with a retractable roof to keep out the rain, and it can be heated on particularly cold days in April and October. But it does not have air conditioning, so Burnes and every pitcher who followed him to the mound battled the conditions as much as the opposing hitters.

Burnes said he kept the same sweat-soaked uniform throughout his 99-pitch effort, but batterymate Victor Caratini went through two sets of catcher's gear and changed uniforms at least four times -- some of which were washed and dried in-game so he could wear them again. Home-plate umpire Chris Segal was so soaked by the late innings that he couldn’t keep replacement baseballs dry; second-base ump Ben May handled that duty instead. 

“I told him, ‘That’s my first time seeing that,’” Adames said. “Every day you see something new in baseball.”

Burnes refused to blame poor grip for a subpar outing in which he lasted six innings but yielded six runs on eight hits (including three home runs, all with two outs) and one walk. Coming into the day, he’d surrendered four two-out home runs in his first 25 starts.

But Brewers hitters bailed Burnes out by erasing a 6-3 deficit after he exited following the top of the sixth. Adames hit a two-run home run in the bottom of that inning, giving him at least one RBI in five consecutive games, and a home run in three of the past four. And Tyrone Taylor continued his own recent surge with a solo home run in the seventh that tied the game at 6-6.

Along the way, Uribe unleashed a 103.3 mph fastball in a scoreless top of the seventh -- a ball just off the plate to Twins leadoff hitter Edouard Julien -- that represented the hardest pitch from a Brewers pitcher as tracked by Statcast, which has data back to 2008. Uribe broke his own record by 1.1 mph.

There’s still room for improvement -- Uribe said he touched 104 mph in 2021 in the Minors. 

“Before, I feel like I couldn't really control it much,” Uribe said. “Now I’m more consistent and I can put it where I want to.”

Joel Payamps, Devin Williams and Elvis Peguero also managed to keep a grip on the baseball as they followed Uribe, with only Peguero allowing a run. It came via a two-out dribbler in the 10th from Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers, who stumbled up the line and crawled the final few feet to first base.

Once again, the Brewers had a comeback in them. Adames led off with a game-tying single that snuck past Minnesota center fielder Michael A. Taylor. Three batters later, Adames was at third base when Milwaukee won the same way it beat the Twins the night before: By putting the ball in play.

“I was like, ‘I’ve got to start running,’” said Turang, who chopped a 102.5 mph fastball up the third-base line at 85 mph off the bat. “We were just fighting.”

It continued a tremendous offensive turnaround for the Brewers, who were limited to three runs while getting swept at Dodger Stadium last week but have scored at least six runs in each game of their five-game win streak over division leaders Texas and Minnesota.

After an off-day Thursday -- well timed, since the temperature is expected to reach triple digits again -- the Brewers host the Padres this weekend before a pivotal three-game series against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

“We’re playing good baseball,” Burnes said. “That’s what it’s going to take to beat good teams. That’s another first-place team we played today, and for us to make a deep postseason run and eventually win this World Series, we’re going to have to put good ABs together against really good pitchers. We’ve done that the last five days.”