Apparently, all Twins second basemen do is hit home runs.

Brian Dozier took a day off with a sore back and his replacement, Eduardo Escobar, hit a solo home run in the third inning and then walked with the bases loaded in the ninth inning for the only two runs of the game.

Kyle Gibson showed that he can pitch well on the road as well with seven shutout innings. He didn't exactly dominate with just three strikeouts and two walks, but he got more than twice as many ground balls as fly balls. That worked out for him despite the Twins' best defensive shortstop playing in Rochester and their best infielder on their roster on the bench.

Gibson played with fire by facing Miguel Cabrera in the most critical at-bats: once with two on and two out and the other with the bases loaded and two outs. The first situation, Cabrera hit a comebacker to end the inning and the second time, he hit into an inning-ending double play.

It was good for the Twins to get that extra run in the ninth, but it was painful to watch the struggles of Joe Nathan. It wasn't so much that he was struggling all that much as it was seeing him get booed off the field by the always classy Tigers "fans." (Yeah, booing a guy is really going to make him do better because he really wasn't trying until you started booing him.)

As much as Twins pitchers, especially starters, have struggled recently, I don't remember any of them getting booed off the field like that, especially after only allowing one run in a game the team was already trailing and it was all set up by an infield error.