{"id":730969,"date":"2026-06-12T01:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:40:16","slug":"detroit-tigers-hit-6-homers-in-11-0-rout-of-minnesota-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730969\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers hit 6 homers in 11-0 rout of Minnesota Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Spencer Torkelson<\/a> hit one of Detroit\u2019s six homers and the Tigers rolled to an 11-0 win over the Minnesota Twins<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Colt Keith<\/a>, Gleyber Torres<\/a>, Riley Greene<\/a>, Zach McKinstry<\/a> and Wenceel P\u00e9rez also went deep for Detroit.<\/p>\n

Leading 2-0, Torkelson hit a two-run shot in the fourth inning for his 10th of the season.<\/p>\n

Torres made it 5-0 in the fifth before Keith hit a two-run shot for his first of the year in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Greene in the seventh and McKinstry added solo shots before P\u00e9rez capped the surge with a two-run shot to left-center in the eighth. <\/p>\n

Kevin McGonigle<\/a> hit a leadoff double in the first and scored on Greene\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

Tigers starting Keider Montero<\/a> (3-4) allowed four hits, struck out four and walked one in 6 1\/3 innings. <\/p>\n

Zebby Matthews<\/a> (2-4) gave up nine hits, including three homers, and seven runs. He struck out four and walked one.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP Jack Flaherty<\/a> (1-7, 5.31 ERA) will start for the Tigers against Cleveland on Friday against Tanner Bibee<\/a> (1-7, 4.09).<\/p>\n

RHP Joe Ryan<\/a> (4-3, 3.07) will start for the Twins against the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> on Friday. RHP Kyle Leahy<\/a> (5-3, 4.42) will start for the Cardinals. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Spencer Torkelson hit one of Detroit\u2019s six homers and the Tigers rolled to an 11-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-730969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}