The big question is whether or not the Tigers will be celebrating their AL Central Division championship at Target Field tonight. Their magic number is 1, so either a win over the Twins or a Cleveland loss to the White Sox will do it.
Let’s see if our guys can prevent the Tigers from celebrating tonight or, at the very least, dampen the celebration a bit. As a bonus, a Twins win would actually mean a series win over Detroit.
| TIGERS |
@ |
TWINS |
| Jackson, A, CF | Presley, CF | |
| Hunter, To, RF | Dozier, 2B | |
| Cabrera, M, 3B | Plouffe, 3B | |
| Fielder, 1B | Doumit, DH | |
| Martinez, V, DH | Pinto, C | |
| Dirks, LF | Parmelee, 1B | |
| Infante, 2B | Herrmann, C, RF | |
| Avila, C | Mastroianni, LF | |
| Santiago, R, SS | Florimon, SS | |
| _ Scherzer, P | _Correia, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Detroit | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
The pitching finally got something figured out, at least enough to put together nine solid innings against a very good Detroit lineup.
Unfortunately, the Twins batters couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat and as a result, they got to watch the Tigers celebrate an AL Central championship after the end of the 1-0 game.