DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – Back home in Detroit after over two weeks on the road, Comerica Park wasn’t friendly to the Tigers this weekend. The first games in Detroit since July 6, the Tigers lost to Minnesota, 8-4, on Saturday, and 9-1, on Sunday. They open a three-game series with San Diego on Monday at 7:10 p.m. with Prostate Cancer Awareness night.

Rony Garcia went only 2.2 innings giving up three earned runs in the first inning. Detroit used five pitchers after that point in the game as they combined for just six strikeouts and 10 hits. Eric Haase record the only RBI and had two of Detroit’s three hits.

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The lone run came in the fourth inning to pull within two, 3-1, before Minnesota ran away with the game.

Manager A.J. Hinch said, “Garcia’s injury is a new injury and not the same as before. It’s a bicep issue that radiates down his bicep.”

He followed about the loss to Twins saying, “We are beat up as a team physically and we aren’t winning games and you put that combo together and it’s pretty miserable. I don’t get caught up in the narratives but I don’t like losing today’s game. We had a chance to beat a team that has really turned the corner and the last two days we got beat by them.”