The Minnesota Twins took the Cleveland Indians on a 10 inning ride that ended with them winning 2-1 with a single off the bat of Justin Morneau driving in the winning run in the bottom of the tenth inning putting Minnesota up to 9-10 for the year currently placing them at second place in rankings for American League Central.

Scott Baker took the pitcher’s mound for the Twins on Sunday and pitched seven innings of five hit and one earne run ball.  Dennys Reyes, Pat Neshek, and Matt Guerrier pitched in relief of Baker.  Guerrier picked up the win as he pitched the 10th inning.

Brendan Harris got his 1st home run of the year and his fourth RBI while Morneau picked up a RBI for the game winning run.

The Twins start a 3 game series against the Athletics in Oakland staring on Tuesday night so they will have plenty of time to rest after the extra inning game.

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The Minnesota Tigers had the Detroit Tigers right where they wanted them heading into into the 8th inning.  That was things completely turned around and the Tigers scored six runs in the inning on their way to a 11-9 victory over the Twins.

Pat Neshek took the loss for the Twins as he allowed two earned runs in his one inning of action.  Matt Guerrier who was pitching in relief of starting pitcher Nick Blackburn allowed four earned runs in 1.1 innings of action.  Blackburn pitched 5.2 innings to start the game and also allowed four earned runs.  Overall, the Twins pitching stuff sucked it up all night long.  There is no reason that the Twins shouldn’t have won after scoring nine runs themselves.

The middle of the order did all the damage for the Twins.  Justin Morneau, Delmon Young, Jason Kubel, and Brendan Harris all contributed with two RBI each.  Mike Lamb contributed with one RBI.

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The Minnesota Twins controlled the game against the Chicago White Sox for most of the day, all except for the 7th inning when the White Sox put up five runs and took the lead for good giving the Twins there fifth lose of the season.

Mike Lamb had two RBI, while Joe Mauer and Delmon Young each had one RBI.

Nick Blackburn started the game for the Twins but only lasted five innings as he gave up seven hits and two earned runs.  Matt Guerrier took the loss as he allowed two earned runs, and Pat Neshek allowed three earned runs.  You have to have better performances out of the bullpen if you want to compete, the Twins will have to work on that.

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