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- Updated: September 13, 2016
DETROIT — Jose Iglesias led another Tigers late-inning comeback Monday, doubling home the tying run and scoring the go-ahead tally on Ian Kinsler’s sacrifice fly to rally Detroit past the Twins for a 4-2 win at Comerica Park.
The victory drew Detroit back within a game of Baltimore for the second American League Wild Card spot, making up the ground lost when the O’s took two of three from the Tigers over the weekend.
Though Daniel Norris set a career high with 11 strikeouts — all swinging — over 6 1/3 innings, solo homers from Brian Dozier (No. 40) and Kurt Suzuki were enough to keep the Twins ahead through the middle innings thanks to Ervin Santana’s five innings of one-run ball. Andrew Romine’s one-out walk in the seventh was Detroit’s first baserunner in three innings, but Iglesias’ line drive down the left-field line converted the run off Alex Wimmers. It also set up Kinsler, whose leadoff home run opened the scoring in the first.
After Cameron Maybin ran down Max Kepler’s drive to left-center with two on in the eighth, Miguel Cabrera added an insurance run with his 32nd homer of the season and 440th of his career, tying him with Jason Giambi for 42nd on Major League Baseball’s all-time list.
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED Romine beats throw home: Iglesias initially thought his liner was going to slice foul, hesitating a second before taking off. Romine, however, took off, earning the wave home from third-base coach Dave Clark. The throw to the plate looked like it beat him, but Romine slid around Suzuki’s tag to score the tying run. Iglesias moved to third on the throw and scored on a …
