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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 Tigers battled all the way back from a 4-0 deficit to hang a soul-crushing defeat on their division rival Twins who are still in the thick of the American League Wild Card race.

“I put a good throw there; it just skipped past McCann”. After sleeping on it, I arrive at the same conclusion. “Tonight was a tough one”.

New York is 12-4 this month, including 5-1 since the All-Star break, to open up a 5 1/2-game lead on the rest of the AL East. The Yankees are doing it mainly with strong starting pitching and are allowing an average of 2.7 runs since the break. As for the Minnesota Twins, they...