Attendance: 23,395
Game Time: 2:46
Weather: 73 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 7 mph
Umpires: Home Plate - Adrian Johnson, First
Base - Gary Cederstrom, Second Base - Eric Cooper, Third Base - Ryan Blakney
Seventh-inning stretch song: Little Red
Corvette – Prince
Kiss Cam song: Passionate Kisses – Mary Chapin
Carpenter
Section 115, Row 17, Seat 1 – lower level
behind home plate, with several rows of premium seats in front of the section
Highlights (Twins) – Brian Dozier singled to
lead off the bottom of the first (extending his hitting streak to 23 games) and
promptly stole second, but failed to advance any farther … Byron Buxton robbed
Jose Iglesias with a highlight-reel catch in the top of the seventh … Robbie
Grossman homered for the Twins’ only run in the bottom of the frame … starter
Hector Santiago pitched effectively for the first two innings
Highlights (Tigers) – Matt Boyd efficiently
shut down the home team on 99 pitches through 8 innings, allowing only 4
baserunners and retiring 14 straight Twins at one point … Detroit reached Santiago
for single runs in the 3rd and 4th and put the game away
with 4 in the 6th, punctuated by a 3-run James McCann HR … Miguel
Cabrera added insult to injury with a 2-run shot the next inning off Michael
Tonkin
Other – Twins manager Paul Molitor
disappointed those of us who hung around waiting for one more Dozier at-bat,
pinch-hitting for him in the bottom of the ninth … Tom Lehman threw out the
first pitch on Ryder Cup night … had a chicken tikka bowl ($11.00), something
that you can’t find at a ballpark every day … quite a bit of information
available on the various electronic scoreboards, including pitches in the
current at-bat, an in-game box score shown periodically, a baseball headline
ticker, and the names of winning and losing pitchers for completed out-of-town
games
