Major League Baseball
Minnesota 5, Detroit 3
When: 7:40 PM ET, Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature: 72°
Umpires: Home - Bill Miller, 1B - Alex Mackay, 2B - Malachi Moore, 3B - Chad Whitson
Attendance: 19609

Manuel Margot and Carlos Correa homered as the Minnesota Twins rallied for a 5-3 win over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night in Minneapolis.

Royce Lewis went 1-for-2 with a two-run double for the Twins before exiting the game because of left groin tightness after the fifth inning. The team labeled his status as day-to-day.

Justyn-Henry Malloy and Ryan Kreidler homered for Detroit.

Twins right-hander Jorge Alcala (2-3) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings after replacing starter Simeon Woods Richardson, who gave up three runs on four hits in 5 2/3 innings. Woods Richardson struck out four and walked two.

Jhoan Duran pitched a perfect ninth inning to collect his 13th save.

Tigers right-hander Will Vest (1-2) allowed one run in two-thirds of an inning. He followed starter Tarik Skubal, who gave up three runs on four hits in six innings. Skubal fanned seven and walked one.

In the opener of a three-game set, Minnesota won for the fifth time in six games while Detroit took its fifth defeat in six contests.

The Twins broke a 3-3 tie in the seventh. Byron Buxton led off with a ground-rule double, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a fielder's-choice groundout by Ryan Jeffers.

Correa made it 5-3 Minnesota with a leadoff homer in the eighth off Beau Brieske. The 421-foot shot to left-center field was Correa's 10th long ball of the season.

Minnesota grabbed a 2-0 lead in the third. With one out, Kyle Farmer and Margot hit back-to-back singles, and Lewis came up big with a two-out, two-run double to left field.

The Tigers blasted a pair of home runs in the top of the fifth to grab a 3-2 advantage.

Malloy started the big inning with a leadoff home run to left. It was the rookie's fourth homer in 24 games.

Three batters later, Kreidler ripped a two-run homer to put Detroit on top. The shot to left marked Kreidler's first homer of the season and the second of his career.

Margot evened the score at 3-3 in the bottom of the fifth. He pulled a pitch 406 feet to left-center field for his third homer of the season and his second in the past seven games.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Detroit   Minnesota
Tarik Skubal Player Simeon Woods-Richardson
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.0 IP 5.2
7 Strikeouts 4
4 Hits 4
4.50 ERA 4.76
Hitting
Detroit   Minnesota
Justyn-Henry Malloy Player Manuel Margot
2 Hits 2
1 RBI 1
1 HR 1
5 TB 5
.500 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Detroit 5 2 11 .156 6 7 3 2 0 0
Minnesota 7 2 15 .233 11 8 5 5 0 1