Tigers vs. Twins Game Highlights (4/21/24) | MLB Highlights

After snapping their five game slide, the twins can make it two in a row today and in the process capture their second series of the season. Meanwhile, it also sparked the twins winning yesterday. Capitalizing on poor tiger defense. That's been an issue. Now, Detroit has committed nine errors over the last four games for me. Story is all about the guy getting the ball today. Louis Varland. It's not just been a rough start to the season. It's been a rough start from him starting going back in the last year, five, a of 9.31 allowed 10 homers going back into last June. I think that, you know, we're going to find out early, I think in the first couple innings with Lou and what his approach might be. We see the first two strike count for Louis Varland today and he missed inside with a cutter and Riley Green draws leadoff walk. There he goes outside doesn't matter. Back to back walk. Spencer Torkelson will bat and he is ding today on the ground left side to shortstop down to a knee. Castro got the out at second base. It's really good hustle there by Marna with Willie Castro going in the hole. How close Marna makes this play at second base in the runner at third Tork in at first Carpenter Digs in hitting 320 in his early at bats. Carpenter line drive base hit over a leaping Santana down the right field line green in to score Torkelson over to third carry. Carpenter delivers again his fourth RB I of the weekend and the Tigers take a 10 lead in the first infield tight runners at the corners, one out low and away, yanked the cutter. That's his third walk of the inning. Bases are loaded and the Tigers have a chance to break this thing open early and he hits it in the air center field. It's into right center. Byron Buxton is back to make the catch. Here comes another run. Torkelson scores Carpenter to third. The Tigers take run number two. Now Varley needs one more strike to minimize the damage here. The 32 pitch right down the middle strike three inning over as the Tigers will leave a pair. Fourth start of the year for this 26 year old native of Springville, Alabama Casey again. We talked about the stuff tick up and Julian sends it to left Riley Green makes the play. Eddie Julian retired and here's Larn who's hit safely in three out of four and Larn looks Lowe did not bite in the slider. Nice plate appearance there from Larn as he draws a one out walk. And here comes Byron Buxton. Here's the pitch swung on and rolled through to the left side of the infield for a base will stroll on down to second base. I'll see what Kirillov can do and Kirillov did not offer. The bases are full of twins and Austin Mart-n will be the batter. So Louis Varland walked a couple in the opening frame and he had all sorts of traffic behind him. And now it's Casey Ms's turn. It's sharply caught by my and that's the only out they record so solid contact but my got the glove up two down bases loaded, two out and no one pitch hit in the air for left center field. It's meadows back into the alley to make the catch. Casey M can go in and reset two walks, gets him into a bases loaded jam. He gets out of it without a run. You know, you walk the leadoff guy, he's still second and you go 31 to the number nine hitter. It's not the ideal start to the half inning slicing fly ball to left BuxtonMart-n. Mart-n. Back Mart-n on the warning track makes the play. Baez will tag and take third. So two down can walked his first time. Two chopped on the ground back to third backhand by kyle Farmer sets his feet long throw picked out of the dirt by carlos Santana. And the inning is done. Works around a leadoff walk. It's two Tigers rubber game of this series, 20 Tigers spencer to in the hole and through on a high curveball. So Torkelson has been on twice second hit given up by Louis Varland today and he'll face the man who has the other one that's carry Carpenter an RB I single in the first and a hit by pitch. So again, Varland leadoff man on and now trouble finds him immediately chance to get two Castro second for one. Julian's return throw is in time. There's a double play exactly what needed right there. Carpenter and out on the double play to, to third base with two outs, man chances galore for the Tigers buddy. Kennedy saw six pitches in his first trip to the plate. I like this match up again. Righties hit this guy the 2 to 1 swing, fly ball left field. This one's deep going back Mart-n looking up and it's gone home run buddy, Kennedy with a two run shot with two outs in the third. Buddy. Kennedy's second big league home run. They both come against the twins and the Tigers take a four nothing lead trail four, nothing trying to get right back in this thing home third. A lot of baseball still to be played. Byron Buxton singled in his first. He's at the plate now with julian at first base, ground ball back up the middle bouncing ball, grab at second by Kennedy steps on the base throws to first and a double play will erase any thoughts of the twins chipping away here in the third , the fourth inning at second base. Baez takes off the third throw to third. Not in time. Vasquez made that very close at third but that was a steal for Baez off the pitcher. Two strikes for on the ground. Third base side that's farmer to vacuum it up and throw out. Baez is stranded at third pretty good baserunning for Baez but he can't get home. It's going to be 1st and 3rd with two down. Here we go. Let's see if the twins can come up with some clutch two out hitting and get back in this game ground ball. The shortstop Baez, he'll field it flipped to second and forced the runner out there. Twins threatened, they leave two on and it's four Detroit. Last time he thrown six innings was August 30th 2021. He threw six against Texas in the third base side and there is Matt for the final out of six scoreless for casey. My zero for two of the walk for the green scored a run in the first inning line drive and that's going to drop for a base hit Baba in the green was on it. It's a shortstop on a line cannon lines out for the second out here in the seventh inning. When is that first home run for to, I feel like he's close in the air left field side, Mart-n back off the wall hard off the wall giving Riley Green a chance to streak home as that ball ricocheted sharply back into the field of play and it was very close to that home run for torque. It's 54 Riley Greens on mark can zero for three today with the walk fly ball right center field and a diving try for Buckton. He can't make the catch it ricochets off toward right field and the Tigers have two on here in the ninth inning. Just a little flare. And if Buxton can't make the play, you know, you've just hit it in the right spot. Yeah, you have Tigers here in business tack on a few runs here. Help out the cause. 2nd and 3rd 1 out. Five nothing Tigers fly ball right center. Not sure if it's deep enough. Let's see, they will press Margo newly into right and that's the right call. Doson gets the ball to the outfield deep enough and the Tiger take a 60 lead. Quince trailing 60. Austin Mart-n one last chance to extend his hitting streak to seven games. Mart-n sends one to left field and deep becket goes and gone first big league home run for Austin Mart-n and finally something to smile about today here at target field and the twins are down five. Congratulations. That's one. He'll never forget the target field crowd recognizing that as well. And the twins are now down to their last strike by 80. It's a fly ball left hand side, Riley Green pointing to the sky and he makes the catch to win the series for the Tigers 6 to 1 behind Casey, my six scoreless and Buddy Kennedy's second major league home run.