MILWAUKEE -- After knocking six runs across against Brewers ace Corbin Burnes, the Twins liked their chances to pull off a series split on Wednesday afternoon at American Family Field.

“At that point, you feel like it’s your game,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “It’s your game to win and apparently your game to lose, as well.”

But the Twins (65-62), who led 6-3 in the sixth, didn’t score in the next three innings, opening the door for the Brewers -- who tied things up in the seventh en route to forcing extra innings. Milwaukee ultimately walked off closer Jhoan Duran in the 10th, handing Minnesota an 8-7 loss.

“We put a lot out there today,” Baldelli said. “It’s a tough game. It’s a disappointing game to not come out on top.”

The backdrop and necessary context to the series finale was the unwavering conditions both sides played through.

The 97-degree temperature at first pitch was the third highest in American Family Field history. By the ninth inning, it was 101 degrees -- and felt like 110.

“It was like playing in a sauna out there,” Baldelli said. “The guys stood up to it pretty well.”

In fact, home-plate umpire Chris Segal was so soaked by the late innings, second-base umpire Ben May had to hold replacement baseballs in his pocket.

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

Twins starter Kenta Maeda allowed one run on two hits, one walk and one hit by pitch in the first inning while battling grip issues due to sweat. He was able to combat the problem, grinding to toss five innings while allowing three runs.

After Maeda's pitch count stood at 65 through three, he threw 13 and 14 pitches, respectively, in 1-2-3 fourth and fifth innings.

“It was certainly tough with the heat,” Maeda said through an interpreter. “In the first inning, the sweat kind of bothered me with my pitching. But towards the end of the outing, I was able to make adjustments and pitch through it.”

Maeda relied on rosin and dry towels to combat sweat, and he also changed his jersey three times.

“And I'm not a really big fan of changing jerseys,” he said. “I never do, but today is an exception.”

Offensively, the Twins hit three homers -- two-run blasts by Royce Lewis and Michael A. Taylor, and a solo shot by Kyle Farmer -- to take the three-run lead against Burnes. But their lineup and bullpen each ran into trouble in the late innings.

The Twins went 1-for-11 in the sixth, seventh and eighth, after Farmer’s homer. They came up empty in the ninth after putting two on with nobody out (walk, hit by pitch) against All-Star closer Devin Williams.

Meanwhile, Baldelli had Emilio Pagán, Caleb Thielbar, Griffin Jax and closer Jhoan Duran lined up, tasked to hold a three-run lead over the final four innings. That quartet has been largely steady for Minnesota this season, adding to the club's confidence it was positioned to lock down the game.

In the sixth, Pagán allowed a single to Carlos Santana and a home run to Adames, the first two hitters he faced. In the seventh, Thielbar surrendered a game-tying solo homer to Tyrone Taylor.

Duran worked a clean ninth, but he gave up a game-tying single to Adames to lead off the 10th inning. Brice Turang’s walk-off single -- a two-out chopper to Lewis at third base with a .180 expected batting average -- was the game-winner.

With their series against National League Central-leading Brewers behind them, the Twins will host the Rangers, who are in a heated race with the Astros and Mariners for the American League West title.

That figures to be a high-intensity series, and the stakes are naturally higher this time of year for postseason hopefuls. And though Wednesday was one game, it was a winnable for the Twins.

“You have to find a way to keep scoring,” Baldelli said. “You have to find a way to do a few things, and they have a good bullpen, too. You knew it was going to be a tight contest and guys coming out of the 'pen with good stuff all the way around.

“There's more than one way to win a ballgame, but when you have a 6-3 lead going into the sixth inning with all your best guys rested and ready to pitch, you feel good about it.”