MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Spencer Torkelson hit a two-run home run in the 12th inning, Javier B\u00e1ez added a bases-clearing double, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 11-6 on Wednesday night to salvage the final game of a three-game series.<\/p>\n
John Peck drove in three runs with the first two hits of his career, and Hao-Yu Lee, Riley Greene and Max Clark added RBIs.<\/p>\n
In winning for the second time in seven games, Detroit scored more than two runs for the first time in that span.<\/p>\n
Torkelson lined the second pitch he saw from Tommy Nance (2-3) into the left-field seats for his 21st home run, but first since July 29. B\u00e1ez\u2019s double came six batters later.<\/p>\n
Kyle Finnegan (3-0) tossed the final two innings for the win.<\/p>\n
Clark hit an RBI double in the 11th inning for Detroit, but Luke Keaschall landed a single in front of a diving Ben Malgeri to tie it at 6.<\/p>\n
Minnesota, which won 11-1 Monday and 15-2 Tuesday, lost for the first time in four games and remains 3 1\/2 games back of Cleveland for the third American League wild-card spot. Three other teams are between them.<\/p>\n
Brooks Lee had three hits and Josh Bell two for the Twins, 4 for 21 with runners in scoring position, but scored three times in the eighth inning, two on a Royce Lewis single, to tie it at 5.<\/p>\n
Detroit was 6 for 23 with runners on second or third.<\/p>\n
Peck, who was called up Monday from Triple-A Toledo, had a two-run double in the second and added an RBI single in the sixth for a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Tigers: Open a four-game series Friday in Cleveland with RHP Keider Montero (9-8, 3.24 ERA) and LHP Andrew Sears (0-1, 6.75) starting in a day-night doubleheader.<\/p>\n
Twins: RHP Zebby Matthews (9-8, 4.58) goes Friday to open a three-game series at the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n
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Mike Cook, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Spencer Torkelson hit a two-run home run in the 12th inning, Javier B\u00e1ez added a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-881499","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\/881499","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=881499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}