MINNEAPOLIS -- Mitch Garver's first career homer, a solo shot in the seventh inning after Miguel Sano tied the game with a two-run homer in the sixth, helped lift the Twins to a 4-2 win over the Mariners in the Target Field opener on a chilly Thursday afternoon that saw a game-time temperature of 38 degrees.
Garver, who had never homered in his previous 52 at-bats in the Majors, capitalized on a mistake from reliever Dan Altavilla, as he hung an 0-2 slider that Garver didn't miss. Garver crushed it, as it left his bat at 105.