Tiebreaker Needed for AL Central Title
October 4, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Baseball
Headed into the last day of the baseball regular season, the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins were tied on top of the AL Central. After both teams won on Sunday, the two ballclubs will have to play a tiebreaker to settle the division title. The tiebreaker will take place on Tuesday in Minnesota at the Metrodome.
The Tigers were able to beat the Chicago White Sox 5-3 thanks to great efforts by Justin Verlander and Ryan Raburn. Verlander didn’t give up a run until the eighth inning, while Raburn hit a pair of homers to finish with three runs and three RBIs.
As for the Twins, they strolled to a 13-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Minnesota scored four runs in the first and then three more runs in the third to put the contest away. The TWins got five home runs – two by Jason Kubel, two by Delmon Young and one by Michael Cuddyer. Kubel finished the game 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs and six RBIs.
The matchup in the tiebreak will be Rick Porcello of the Tigers versus Scott Baker of the Twins. Porcello is a 20-year-old rookie who is 14-9 with a 4.04 ERA, while the 28-year-old Baker is 15.9 with an ERA of 4.36.
Delmon Young and the Twins will try to win the division on Tuesday (Image: Zuma Press)
