Quintana (11-10) gave up seven runs on seven hits -- including two homers -- despite striking out eight without a walk over five innings Thursday in Minnesota.
The fifth-year lefty hurler may have been around the plate just a bit too much in this one, and the result was more earned runs than he'd allowed in his prior four starts put together. Thanks to this ugly stat line, his ERA's just back over the 3.00 mark for the first time since mid-July, but that doesn't take much of the shine off the season Quintana's delivered. He's already set a new career mark with those 11 wins and is only 20 short of his career-high 178 strikeouts, set two seasons ago.