A tight, back-and-forth game in Minnesota saw the Tigers blow a lead in extra innings, with the Twins coming back to win it, 5-4 in ten.
Homer Bailey — whose real first name is, curiously enough, not Homer — had a fastball that, most of the time, would barely get a speeding ticket on I-75. Bailey spent a dozen years with the Reds, before a solid year with the Royals and A’s last year. This year he spent a long time on the IL; he made a start against the Cardinals on July 28, and.