Well this was absolutely not what the doctor ordered. The Tigers couldn’t hold off a Twins comeback in Game 1, and then failed to hold serve in the 12th inning to lose it. In Game 2, the bats were just atrocious once again while Matt Manning’s rare mistakes were hit hard. And so the Twins swept the doubleheader and will look to take the series on Sunday.
Game 1: Twins 11, Tigers 5 (F/12)
The first of two matchups with the Minnesota Twins on Saturday featured former Twin, Kenta Maeda, taking on RHP Joe Ryan. Of the two, Ryan was decidedly the more dominant, but with some timely defense and enough stuff to keep the Twins offense in the park, Maeda was able to match him.