Twins starting pitcher Nick Blackburn is 7-6 with a 6.00 ERA in 16 starts, allowing 127 hits in 93 total innings thus far.\u00a0 The right-hander is coming off a 7-4 home defeat against the Tampa Bay Rays, giving up seven runs (four earned) and nine hits in 6.1 innings.\u00a0 He has compiled a 2-5 record and 9.40 ERA in eight road starts this season, managing to surrender nine home runs in 37.1 innings and opponents are hitting a gaudy .401 against him.\u00a0 Blackburn will be making his 10th lifetime appearance against the Tigers, posting a 4-3 mark and 3.95 ERA.\u00a0 He led the Twins to a 11-4 victory over the division rivals two starts back, tossing seven innings and allowing four earned runs on seven hits.\u00a0 The third-year starter is 0-3 with a 6.12 ERA in five career outings (four starts) at Comerica Park.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Detroit enters today\u2019s game having won 16 of 18 games at home dating back to June 2, as the team stands at 31-12 overall at Comerica Park (+1,690).\u00a0 The victory extended its lead to three games on the third-place Twins and moved the club\u2019s winning streak to four games.\u00a0 All-Star first baseman Miguel Cabrera has been doing it all at the plate, extending his hitting streak to 17 games with a single on Friday night.\u00a0 He is batting .406 with two home runs and 15 RBI over that span and has compiled a 74 RBI total on the season.\u00a0 The Tigers have produced a 22-13 daytime record this season (+720) with the total going 15-18-2 O\/U in those contests.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tigers starting pitcher Jeremy Bonderman is 4-6 with a 4.81 ERA in 16 appearances (15 starts) this season.\u00a0 He is set to make his eighth start of the season at home this afternoon, going 2-3 with a 3.52 ERA.\u00a0 Bonderman is making his 95th overall appearance at Comerica Park, posting a 29-35 record and 4.89 ERA.\u00a0 The right-hander has been bitten by the long ball recently, surrendering nine home runs over his last seven starts after he allowed just two home runs in the first nine outings (eight starts).\u00a0 In 17 previous outings against the Twins, he stands at 4-6 with a 5.40 ERA, including a 7-5 victory on June 28 at Minnesota.\u00a0 He allowed four earned runs and nine hits over 5.1 innings in that start.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bettors need to wait for the lineups to be released to find out if Morneau returns to the field.\u00a0 The over is currently 6-1-1 in Twins games this month and a perfect 7-0 in their last seven games versus a right-handed starter.\u00a0 This fits well with the Tigers going over the total in nine of their last 13 games as a favorite.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The division rivals are both in a good spot to light up the scoreboard at Comerica Park. Minnesota Twins at Detroit Tigers Minnesota has dropped 12 of its last 17 games after dropping a 7-3 road game to the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park.\u00a0 \u201cSilly baserunning, getting picked off in bad situations, and we kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[2126,48,1978,284,2010,240,1502],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-comerica-park","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-jeremy-bonderman","tag-justin-morneau","tag-miguel-cabrera","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-nick-blackburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/miguel-cabrera-tigers-54-150x150.jpg\")
Minnesota has dropped 12 of its last 17 games after dropping a 7-3 road game to the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park.\u00a0 \u201cSilly baserunning, getting picked off in bad situations, and we kind of nonchalanted a bung play there,\u201d Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said.\u00a0 \u201cThose things just can\u2019t happen in a big game like this.\u201d\u00a0 The Twins still lead the season series 6-4 and are 19-11 against the division (+340).\u00a0 Minnesota has dropped eight of 10 on the road and could be without the services of first baseman Justin Morneau for a third straight games, as he suffered a mild concussion by getting kneed in the head on Wednesday.\u00a0 Outfielder Denard Span may be asked to lead the offense, as he\u2019s hitting .350 against the Tigers this season and his 65 career hits against them are his most versus any opponent.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n