Tigers-Twins Doubleheader Rained Out With Twinbill On Saturday
The Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins' doubleheader scheduled for Friday has been postponed due to rain.
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The Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins' doubleheader scheduled for Friday has been postponed due to rain.
The Minnesota Twins rallied from a four-run deficit to beat the Detroit Tigers 9-4 Saturday.
The game was delayed by rain for 35 minutes in the middle of the fourth and for 69 at the start of the seventh.
Ryan Jeffers hit his first major league homer to spark Minnesota's four-run third inning, and Michael Pineda stayed sharp in his return from suspension by finishing seven innings for the Twins in a 6-2 win over the Detroit Tigers on Monday.
Miguel Sanó led Minnesota's rally against the Detroit bullpen with a home run and the tying single in the ninth inning, before Byron Buxton beat out an infield single for the game-winning RBI to give the Twins a 4-3 victory over the Tigers on Saturday night.
Marwin Gonzalez singled home Willians Astudillo in the eighth inning, and the Minnesota Twins rallied to beat the Detroit Tigers 3-2 and sweep Friday's doubleheader.
Jonathan Schoop hit a tiebreaking home run in the sixth inning, and the Detroit Tigers finished off a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 3-2 victory Sunday.
Victor Reyes had four hits to lift the Detroit Tigers to an 8-2 win over the Minnesota Twins in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday. Detroit has won five of its last seven.
The move comes as a number of teams have been putting a pause on business as usual, in the aftermath of the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Jonathan Schoop hit Minnesota's record 300th home run, Willians Astudillo also went deep and the AL Central champion Twins rallied past the Detroit Tigers 10-4 Thursday to move within one victory of giving the major leagues four 100-win teams for the first time.
Max Kepler's two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning lifted the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins over the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Monday.
The Minnesota Twins broke the major league record for home runs in a season — before September even started.
The first four innings Saturday night certainly weren't pristine for the Minnesota Twins and starting pitcher Kyle Gibson. Too many groundballs found holes. And Twins infielders failed to make several plays behind him.
The Twins are 8-2 against the rest of their division. Minnesota has hit 70 home runs this season, third in the American League. Eddie Rosario leads the team with 13, averaging one every 11.3 at-bats.
Eddie Rosario hit a tiebreaking drive in the eighth inning for Minnesota's third homer of the day, helping the Twins top the Detroit Tigers 5-4 on Sunday.
Joe Mauer, Tyler Austin, Miguel Sano and Mitch Garver homered for the Twins, who had won four straight.
Austin hit a two-run homer, Kyle Gibson pitched seven effective innings and the Twins beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Saturday night.
Some MLB teams are already looking to next season and beyond, but even their fans have something to be hopeful about.
A wild goose chase (literally) in Detroit ended with a crash into one of the stadium's scoreboards.
The Boston Red Sox were in Detroit for a series over the weekend, and several players came down with flu-like symptoms.
The Tigers look to get another strong year out of their young pitcher.
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Eduardo Escobar homered and drove in three runs as the Minnesota Twins kept pace in the AL wild-card race with a 6-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers Saturday night.
Glen Perkins crouched in front of the mound with his head down, trying to come to terms with a home run that put a bit of a dent in Minnesota's playoff chances. Rajai Davis hit a two-run shot off Perkins in the eighth inning, and the Detroit Tigers rallied for a 6-4 victory over the Twins on Friday night.
The Twins just finished a crucial 10-game homestand and while you can't call it a rousing success, you can't exactly call it a complete disaster.
