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Bottom 9	R	H	E
Twins	10	13	1
Tigers	4	6	1

Bottom 9	R	H	E
Twins	10	13	1
Tigers	4	6	1

Gerald Laird Season Stats

	Game	Season
Average	.000	.280
OBP	.000	.339
At Bats	3	161
Hits	0	45
• Singles	0	35
• Doubles	0	7
• Triples	0	1
• Home Runs	0	2
Walks	0	14
RBI’s	0	8

Alex Burnett Season Stats

Wins	Losses	Saves
4	4	0

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Comerica Park - September 23, 2012

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Strikeout

Alex Burnett

Ryan Doumit

Justin Morneau

Eduardo Escobar

Trevor Plouffe

Pedro Florimon

Matt Carson

Denard Span

Ben Revere

Gerald Laird

Avisail Garcia

Final Stats

	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Minnesota Twins	10	13	1	6
Detroit Tigers	4	6	1	5
Winning Pitcher	Scott Diamond
Losing Pitcher	Max Scherzer
Save	(none)
Game Winning RBI	Trevor Plouffe
Attendance	40,438
Time of Game	3 hours 5 minutes

View Box Score

Count: 1-2, 2 Outs

Count: 1-2, 0 Outs

End of Game

Laird strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:

Bottom 9 Garcia hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Kelly scores. Dirks scores. Two runs are unearned.

Bottom 9 That is defensive interference on unknown player with unknown particulars. Dirks moves to second.

Bottom 9 Dirks hits a ball on the ground and there's an error on the play. Kelly moves to third.

Bottom 9 Peralta hits a line drive towards third. Plouffe reaches out and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 9 Young strikes out.

Bottom 9 There's a wild pitch. Kelly moves to second.

Bottom 9 Matt Carson now playing left field. Alex Burnett now pitching. Kelly hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.

Top 9 Plouffe strikes out.

Top 9 Doumit strikes out.

Top 9 Brennan Boesch now playing right field. Danny Worth now playing third base. Don Kelly now playing first base. Avisail Garcia now playing center fiMorneau hits a fly ball into left field. Dirks settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 8 Cabrera hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Escobar settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 8 Infante hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Escobar settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 8 Casey Fien now pitching. Jackson strikes out.

Top 8 Willingham hits a fly ball into center field. Jackson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 8 Luke Putkonen now pitching. Mauer hits a fly ball into center field, out of the reach of Jackson who is chasing the ball. Mauer reaches third base with a triple. Florimon scores. Revere goes all the way around to score.

Top 8 Revere hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Escobar scores. Florimon moves to second.

Top 8 Span hits a fly ball into right field. Garcia settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 8 Florimon hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Escobar moves to second.

Top 8 Escobar hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Doumit scores.

Top 8 Plouffe strikes out.

Top 8 Doumit hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Dirks. Doumit reaches second base with a double.

Bottom 7 Laird hits a ball on the ground towards short. Florimon fields it and throws to second for the out.

Bottom 7 Garcia takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 7 Dirks hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Escobar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 7 Peralta strikes out.

Top 7 Darin Downs now pitching. Morneau hits a line drive towards short. Peralta reaches out and makes the catch for the out.

Top 7 Willingham hits a fly ball into center field. Jackson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 7 Mauer hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Dirks settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Revere tags and scores. That run is unearned.

Top 7 There goes Revere. The throw from Laird and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.

Top 7 Revere takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 6 Young hits a fly ball into center field. Span settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 6 Fielder hits a ball on the ground towards short. Florimon scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 6 Cabrera strikes out.

Top 6 Span strikes out.

Top 6 There goes Florimon. The throw from Laird and he is safe. Florimon steals second.

Top 6 Florimon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Infante fields it and throws to second for the out. Doumit scores.

Top 6 Escobar strikes out. There goes Morneau. He's safe. There goes Doumit. Here's the throw, and he's safe.

Top 6 Brayan Villarreal now pitching. Plouffe hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Willingham scores. Morneau moves to third. Doumit moves to second.

Top 6 Doumit takes first base on ball four. Willingham moves to third. Morneau moves to second.

Top 6 Phil Coke now pitching. Morneau hits a fly ball into left field for a base hit. Mauer scores.

Top 6 Willingham hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Dirks. Willingham reaches second base with a double. Mauer moves to third.

Top 6 Mauer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Infante fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Revere scores.

Top 6 Revere hits a fly ball into left field, out of the reach of Dirks who is chasing the ball. Revere reaches third base with a triple.

Bottom 5 Infante hits a ball on the ground towards short. Florimon scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 5 Jackson takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 5 Laird hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Escobar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 5 Diamond fires to first and has Garcia trapped. There's the throw to Florimon who tags Garcia for the out.

Bottom 5 Garcia hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

Top 5 Span strikes out.

Top 5 There goes Escobar. The throw from Laird and he is safe. Escobar steals second.

Top 5 Florimon strikes out.

Top 5 Escobar hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

Top 5 Plouffe hits a ball on the ground towards short. Peralta scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 4 Dirks hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Escobar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 4 Peralta takes first base on ball four. Young moves to second.

Bottom 4 Young hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Cabrera scores.

Bottom 4 Fielder hits a fly ball into left field. Willingham settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 4 Cabrera hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Willingham. Cabrera reaches second base with a double. Infante goes all the way around to score.

Bottom 4 Infante hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

Bottom 4 Jackson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Escobar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 4 Doumit hits a fly ball into right field. Garcia settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 4 Morneau takes first base on ball four.

Top 4 Willingham hits a popup, foul, towards the right side of the infield. Infante settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 4 Mauer hits a fly ball into left field. Dirks settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 3 Laird strikes out.

Bottom 3 Garcia hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Escobar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 3 Dirks hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Diamond fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 3 Revere hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Infante scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 3 Span hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Infante settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 3 Florimon hits a fly ball into left field. Dirks settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 2 Peralta hits a fly ball into center field. Span settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 2 Young hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Escobar settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 2 Fielder strikes out.

Top 2 Escobar hits a fly ball into left field. Dirks settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 2 Plouffe strikes out.

Top 2 Doumit hits a fly ball into left field. Dirks settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 1 Cabrera hits a fly ball into center field. Span settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 1 Infante hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Escobar settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 1 Jackson strikes out.

Top 1 Morneau hits a fly ball into center field. Jackson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 1 Willingham strikes out.

Top 1 Mauer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Revere moves to second.

Top 1 Revere hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

Top 1 Span hits a popup towards short. Peralta settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

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