MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Torii Hunter attributed his big game to luck.

His manager knows better.

Hunter had a grand slam among his five hits and drove in six

runs to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 6-2 victory over the

Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night.

"Tonight, I will be at the casino -- I'm all in," Hunter said

after going 5-for-5.

Hunter raised his average 20 points to .258 with his career high

for hits, matched his career best with six RBI and showed signs

that he's putting a slow start behind him.

"He's been out here early working on just trying to get better,

and tonight it paid off," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "If

we can get him on a roll, we can score a lot of runs."

Hunter put the Twins ahead 4-2 in the third inning with a grand

slam to left off Cliff Lee, the fourth of his career. Hunter just

missed a home run in his next at-bat when he doubled high off the

wall in right field.

With two outs and the bases loaded in the sixth, Hunter got a

gift double and two RBI when shortstop Jhonny Peralta and left

fielder Jody Gerut had trouble communicating going after his

towering flyball. Pinch-runner Nick Punto and Lew Ford scored to

give Minnesota a 6-2 lead.

"Jhonny thought I called it," Gerut said. "Crowd noise can be

a problem. This place gets pretty loud."

It got even louder in the eighth, when the crowd gave Hunter a

standing ovation after he capped his night with a single.

"I was just trying to make contact, and I got a base hit,"

Hunter said. "[The ovation] was pretty great. They recognized that

was a career high for me."

Brad Radke (5-4) pitched seven strong innings to get the

victory. He allowed two earned runs and six hits with no walks and

six strikeouts. J.C. Romero and Jesse Crain each pitched a

scoreless inning to close the game.

"Radke pitched like Radke pitches," Indians manager Eric Wedge

said. "He expanded the zone from left to right and was able to

take advantage of that. He was tough on our guys."

The last time Radke faced the Indians in the Metrodome he held

them to three hits in a 9-0 complete-game victory on May 5. That

scoreless streak against Cleveland didn't last much longer, as Ben

Broussard hit a two-out, two-run homer in the first inning to put

the Indians up 2-0.

But a key miscue in the field set up the Twins rally in the

third. With two on and one out, Justin Morneau hit a sharp grounder

to first. Broussard bobbled the ball and couldn't get the out at

second, but Lee forgot to cover first base and Morneau reached

safely.

"As we've found out this year, any time you give up extra outs

in this game, it gets you," Gardenhire said. "It cost them dearly

tonight."

Hunter hit the next pitch -- a hanging curve -- 410 feet to put

the Twins ahead for good. Lee said he didn't think the pitch was a

mistake.

"I threw a first-pitch curve to him, trying to throw a strike,

and got it up a little," Lee said. "I didn't even expect him to

swing on a curve. Looking back, I would've thrown that one again,

because I didn't expect him to hit a curve."

Hunter didn't expect to see one, either.

"I wasn't sitting on a curveball," Hunter said. "It's just

that my hands said, 'Yes!"

Hunter's career night helped the Twins win a rare one-sided game

in this series. Ten of the first 11 games in the season series were

decided by one or two runs, or went into extra innings.

Lee (6-3) went five innings, allowing four earned runs and nine

hits. He walked two and struck out six in his first road loss of

the year in six decisions.

"I was battling the whole time. I never had an easy inning,"

Lee said. "I made it through a lot of innings, but that one with

the grand slam really hurt me."Game notes
It was Hunter's first grand slam since July 2002. He last

drove in six runs in an 11-inning game against Texas last Aug. 31.

... Brent Abernathy was 1-for-3 with a sacrifice bunt in his season

debut for the Twins. He was called up from Triple-A Rochester after

Tuesday's game.