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Eduardo Escobar homered and drove in three runs as the Minnesota Twins kept pace in the AL wild-card race with a 6-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers Saturday night.

The Twins made it 4-1 in the fourth inning with a rally that began with a leadoff double by left fielder Eddie Rosario, who had three of the Twins’ eight hits. Santana hammered it deep to right for his 18th homer of the season.

“I put a good throw there; it just skipped past McCann”. After sleeping on it, I arrive at the same conclusion. The Tigers host the Twins again tonight in Detroit’s next to last home game of the season.

On the general topic of Ortiz’s power bestowals, here’s this from the Red Sox Twitter account… But facing a lineup for a third or fourth time also tests a starter and aids the team’s ability to evaluate its roster in preparation for next season.

The Angels pulled even with the Twins in the wild card race with a 4-3 win in 12 innings on Saturday afternoon and went up by a game with their second win of the day.

Now that David Ortiz has hit his 500th career home run, you can naturally expect some comments about his all-time greatness.

A September skid was starting to threaten the Los Angeles Angels’ playoff chances and they started a series against wild card competition in Minnesota in the worst possible way.

The Yankees (66-52) scored eight runs and posted double-digit hits in each of their first two wins against the Twins in this series, which coincided with two straight victories by Toronto that have kept their AL East lead at one game.

Armed with a six-man bench for the Blue Jays’ two games in Philadelphia, manager John Gibbons has plenty of options to turn to as he works under National League rules.

On this occasion, however, past performances meant nothing.

Tommy Milone returned from the disabled list and pitched five innings, Kurt Suzuki had two key RBIs and the Minnesota Twins beat Carlos Carrasco and the Cleveland Indians 4-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Mike Pelfrey delivers to the Seattle Mariners during the first inni …

He hit the first pitch of the inning from Pat Neshek (3-2) just inside the left-field foul pole for his 11th home run of the year.

“By adding these two”, Toronto manager John Gibbons said, “it gives me a shot in the arm”. “They capitalized excellently on every single one of my mistakes”. It will be a lot of fun to watch how this will play out. Lowe has allowed just four...

Lookouts center fielder Byron Buxton was called-up to the Twins on June 14.