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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (4-5) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (3-6)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Casey Mize<\/a> (0-0, 1.50 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Twins: Joe Ryan<\/a> (0-1, 4.82 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Twins -123, Tigers +103; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins host the Detroit Tigers to open a four-game series.<\/p>\n

Minnesota went 70-92 overall and 38-43 at home last season. The Twins slugged .397 as a team in the 2025 season while hitting 1.2 home runs per game.<\/p>\n

Detroit had an 87-75 record overall and a 41-40 record on the road last season. The Tigers averaged 8.3 hits per game last season while batting a collective .247 and slugging .413.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Tigers: Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip inflammation), Trey Sweeney: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Sawyer Gipson-Long: 15-Day IL (oblique), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers (4-5) vs. Minnesota Twins (3-6) Minneapolis; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Casey Mize (0-0,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[29375,5,2259,399,3916,147,53,2583,75686,713,1455,388,19,60,4,1997,768,594,33608],"class_list":{"0":"post-666109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-bailey-horn","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-beau-brieske","11":"tag-casey-mize","12":"tag-david-festa","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-detroittigers","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-jackson-jobe","18":"tag-joe-ryan","19":"tag-justin-verlander","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-minnesota-twins","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-pablo-lopez","24":"tag-reese-olson","25":"tag-tigers","26":"tag-troy-melton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116356873309367791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}