MINNEAPOLIS — The most perfect strike thrown by a Twins player on Saturday — and there were a lot of good ones — was unleashed by Carlos Correa, a spin-and-fire one-hopper from short left field that turned the Tigers' lone scoring chance into an inning-ending out.
That, and a couple of well-placed, well-timed singles were all the Twins needed — and all they got — to hand the Tigers a lightning-quick 2-0 loss at Target Field.
Willi Castro broke up former teammate Joey Wentz's no-hit bid in the fifth inning by following Royce Lewis' walk with a line drive into left field, and Alex Kirilloff pulled a ground ball into right field to score Lewis and move Castro to third. He scored when Kirilloff broke up a possible double-play grounder by Ryan Jeffers with a hard slide into second base.
