Isn’t baseball a crazy game? It doesn’t matter how good or bad you are, on any given day, anything can happen. You can be on a winning streak and then head on the road and get swept. You can play poorly all game and then have one great inning and be back in the thick of things. These are just few of the many reasons why each game is worth watching.

If you didn’t follow the series opener with the Detroit Tigers, you really missed out.

Through the first six innings, the Twins scored just two runs, and trailed by a score of 6-2 after Kevin Slowey allowed the Tigers to take the lead with the five-run fourth inning. Inning after inning, the Twins would get runners on. But base running blunders and poor at-bats would send them back to the field with nothing to show.

They finally cut into the four-run Tiger lead in the seventh and eight innings, cutting the deficit to just two runs with a run in each inning. The Twins would still need to score two runs in the ninth however to have a chance at a victory.

Nick Punto singled to leadoff the inning, and Denard Span followed with a hit to right. The ball rolled under the glove of Tigers’ right fielder Matt Joyce, allowing Punto to go from first to home and allowing Span to reach third with nobody out and the Twins down just one. Joe Mauer pinch-hit for Carlos Gomez and tied the game with a sacrifice fly.

In just a few minutes, what had been a poorly executed game for the Twins turned into a tie ballgame.

The Twins wouldn’t score anymore the rest of the inning, and brought Joe Nathan on for the ninth. Things didn’t get started very well for Nathan as he walked the first two batters. With nobody out, it looked as if the Twins might blow their chance at a comeback victory.

Nathan recorded out number one after Matt Joyce missed two bunt opportunities and eventually popped-out to Punto at short. However, he allowed the Tigers two move their runners over on a wild pitch to the next batter. The Twins decided to fill the bases with an intentional walk. Miraculously, Nathan struck out the next two batters and ended the jam the way Everyday Eddie once did.

No runs would score in the tenth inning, and in the top of the eleventh inning, the Twins would strike again.

Justin Morneau stepped to the plate, already 4-4 on the day. On the second pitch, a fastball left out over the plate, Morneau hammered a line drive homerun over the right field wall to break the tie.

Matt Guerrier made a solid comeback from his outing in Boston, and what looked like a fourth straight loss for the Twins turned into a stunning late-inning victory.