MINNEAPOLIS -- It has got to the point where Brian Dozier doesn't even expect a home run when the ball soars toward right-center at Target Field.
So when the ball initially left his bat in the eighth inning, he was thinking double. But the ball carried a bit more than normal Saturday afternoon, right over the wall, which served as the go-ahead home run to lift the Twins past the Rays, 5-2.
"It's tough to hit them here at right-center. I thought for sure it was a double," Dozier said. "I don't get too excited when I see one that I think I get, because I have seen that net gobble it up plenty of times.