Thursday's Twins-Detroit game recap

The Twins have scored five or more runs in five consecutive games.

April 29, 2022 at 12:01AM
Twins center fielder Gilberto Celestino caught a fly ball off the bat of Detroit’s Harold Castro in the eighth inning Thursday at Target Field. (Jim Mone, Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

IMPACT PLAYER

Gilberto Celestino, Twins

Drove in his first run of the season, collected the first two-hit game of his career, and made a sliding catch on the warning track.

BY THE NUMBERS

5 Consecutive games scoring five or more runs, the Twins' longest such streak since Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2019

.429 Trevor Larnach's batting average against lefthanded pitching, after a two-hit Thursday

2 Sacrifice bunts credited to the Twins, their first of 2021 and the first time with that many since Aug. 31, 2018

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Phil Miller

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Phil Miller has covered the Twins for the Star Tribune since 2013. Previously, he covered the University of Minnesota football team, and from 2007-09, he covered the Twins for the Pioneer Press.

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