"Pitchgate is apparently over and done with after a meeting between Jose Mijares and Joe Mauer, who had a public dispute over pitch selection following Friday's 4-3 loss to the Brewers.

"Everything's good. I told him, 'Sorry,' " Mijares said Saturday.

Twins manager Ron Gardenhire also made a move to nip any discontent in the bud with a brief team meeting to "clear the air" before Saturday's 11-1 loss at Miller Park.

"Anytime these things happen, for me it doesn't matter; just have a little meeting and get it out of the way," Gardenhire said. "Then we're better off; then we don't have to keep walking around it."

Gardenhire inadvertently started the rhubarb when he criticized the pitch selection in a key Prince Fielder at-bat Friday night. Mijares, replacing starter Scott Baker, threw six consecutive fastballs, including one on a 3-2 count that Fielder knocked into the right-field corner to drive in the tying and go-ahead runs in a 4-3 Milwaukee victory.

When reporters asked Mijares why he threw so many fastballs, the pitcher said it was because Mauer called them. "I don't know what's going on with Mauer," he said.

For his part, Mauer acknowledged calling for a fastball but added, "You don't call it for down the middle."

Gardenhire was most concerned the distraction would keep the Twins from recognizing the story arc of what has still been a good June. The Twins won 15 of 17 games June 2-21, and though they have dropped four straight, they remain eight games in back of first-place Cleveland and Detroit - keeping alive the eight-game improvement they have made in the American League Central. "