More than 2,400 feet of home runs were hit at Target Field on Wednesday, a six-pack of blasts that included the stadium’s first inside-the-park job in three years.
So naturally, the hit that wound up costing the Twins the game landed on the pitcher’s mound. With five players surrounding it.
“I don’t really feel like we got beat,” manager Paul Molitor said after the Detroit Tigers left with a 10-7 victory and perhaps a few chunks of the Twins’ dignity. “It just didn’t work out.”
Even worse than the mental beating from such a loss was the physical toll it took.