MINNESOTA 8, DETROIT 6 IN DETROIT (10 INNINGS)

Date:  Friday, April 23.

Batting stars:  Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring three times.  Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs.  Tony Oliva was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.

Pitching stars:  Dave Boswell pitched four shutout innings of relief, giving up one hit and two walks with two strikeouts.  Al Worthington struck out two in two shutout innings, giving up one walk.  Bill Pleis pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up two hits and a walk with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Al Kaline was 2-for-4 with a home run (his second) and a walk, scoring twice.  Dick McAuliffe was 1-for-3 with two walks and a run.  Norm Cash was 1-for-4 with a walk, scoring once and driving in one.

The game:  The Tigers scored five in the first inning off Mudcat Grant, who retired only one of the six batters he faced.  The Twins got back into the game two by two.  They scored two in the second and got a pair of unearned runs in the third to cut the lead to 5-4.  Kaline homered in the seventh to make it 6-4, but the Twins got two more in the eighth, with an RBI single by Earl Battey tying the score.  The Twins opened the tenth with two walks, Hall put the Twins ahead with a run-scoring single, and an error allowed an insurance run to score.  The Tigers did not get a hit after Kaline's homer leading off the seventh.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-6 with a run.  Rich Rollins was 1-for-5 with an RBI.  Bob Allison was 0-for-5 with two RBIs.  Grant pitched only a third of an inning, giving up five runs (four earned) on four hits and a walk with one strikeout.

Record:  The win gave the Twins a five-game winning streak and made them 6-1 on the season, in first place, a game ahead of Chicago.