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Ultimately, the four-game series was split with two wins for each team, and the Tigers maintained a two-game lead with three games remaining for each club. The Tigers lost two of their next three games to the Chicago White Sox, whereas the Twins swept the Kansas City Royals in a three-game series leaving both teams tied with an 86–76 record.
Minnesota Twins celebrate division tiebreaker victory over the Detroit Tigers. The Twins ended the 162-game regular season tied with the Detroit Tigers, necessitating a one-game playoff. This made the Twins the first major league team ever to play in a tie-breaker two years in a row (they lost one to the Chicago White Sox in 2008). The game ...
Morris started for the Twins three times in the series, going 2–0 with a 1.17 ERA, making his final outing in the deciding Game 7. In a postseason performance for the ages, the 36-year-old hurler threw 10 innings of shutout baseball against the Braves, as the Twins won the game 1–0 on a 10th-inning single by Gene Larkin that scored Dan Gladden.
The Detroit Tigers finish off their series against the Minnesota Twins at 2:10 p.m. Sunday on the road at Target Field.
The teams are next scheduled to play Friday in a game that starts at 5:40 p.m. Thursday's scheduled pitching matchup of Twins righthander Pablo López (1-1, 2.84) vs. Tigers lefthander Tarik ...
Bailey Ober pitched six solid innings, and the Minnesota Twins stopped a five-game slide by edging the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Saturday. Byron Buxton and Austin Martin each had two hits for ...
The Twins and Detroit Tigers finished the 162-game schedule in a first-place tie atop the American League Central and played a one-game playoff at the Metrodome on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, that was won by the Twins, 6–5, in 12 innings, giving them the division championship and a postseason berth.
ABOUT LAST NIGHT: Tarik Skubal gets plenty of run support in 8-2 win over Twins. Tigers Game 2 lineup: LF Riley Greene. DH Mark Canha. 1B Spencer Torkelson. RF Kerry Carpenter. 2B Colt Keith.