Detroit 12, Minnesota 9
When: 4:08 PM ET, Saturday, June 14, 2014
Where: Comerica Park, Detroit, Michigan
Temperature:
70°
Umpires:
Home -
Jim Reynolds, 1B -
Seth Buckminster, 2B -
Manny Gonzalez, 3B -
Brian Knight
Attendance:
41498
By SportsDirect Inc.
Tigers 12, Twins 9: Eugenio Suarez and Victor Martinez each homered during a seven-run third inning and visiting Detroit set season highs in both runs and hits while snapping Minnesota’s three-game winning streak.
Detroit bounced back from a 2-0 loss in Friday’s series opener by collecting 19 hits, including nine for extra bases. Anibal Sanchez (3-2) allowed three runs on four hits over 6 1/3 innings and Ian Krol struck out Eric Fryer after allowing a two-run homer to Brian Dozier in the ninth for his first career save for the Tigers, who won for only the fourth time in their last 13 games.
The top five batters in the Detroit lineup – Ian Kinsler, Torii Hunter, Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez and J.D. Martinez - combined for 12 hits and nine RBIs. Suarez sparked the Tigers’ seven-run third inning with a leadoff homer off Samuel Deduno (2-5), who yielded seven runs on seven hits over 2 2/3 innings.
Detroit, which had scored two runs or fewer in seven of Sanchez’s previous eight starts against the Twins, led 7-1 after sending 12 batters to the plate in the third inning. Victor Martinez, who came within a triple of hitting for the cycle, highlighted the outburst with a two-run blast just over the right-field wall for his third homer in the last five games.
Fryer went 3-for-5 with an RBI and scored twice for Minnesota, which trailed 11-1 before plating three runs in the seventh and three more in the eighth. Nick Castellanos recorded three hits and Suarez went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and came within a single of hitting for the cycle for Detroit, whose four relievers allowed six runs on eight hits over 2 2/3 innings.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Twins 3B Trevor Plouffe left the game with a left oblique strain after diving for a ground ball in the third inning. … Suarez is the sixth player in Tigers history to homer in three of his first eight career games and the first since Alex Avila in 2009. … Dozier was held out of the starting lineup for the second straight game with tightness in his lower back, but he entered the game in the eighth in place of Eduardo Nunez, who exited with a strained right hamstring.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Minnesota
|
12 |
1 |
17 |
.316 |
18 |
9 |
8 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| Detroit
|
19 |
2 |
34 |
.463 |
20 |
4 |
12 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
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