With Jhonny Peralta on first and two out in the eighth, score tied at seven, Alex Avila sliced one down the left field line.
A fan touched the ball in play. It bounced and hit another fan out of play. Twins left fielder Delmon Young pointed, Third base ump Gary Darling signaled fan interference. Peralta never stopped running, and touched home plate.
Peralta was send back to third. Jim Leyland came out and said something to Darling. The umps conferred, and waved Peralta home.
As we knew he would be, Ron Gardenhire got tossed.
When fan interference is called, the umps can place baserunners where, in their opinion, they would have ended up had the interference not occurred. This time, they ruled that Peralta would have scored. But they sent him back to third, discussed the play at the request of the home manager, and then allowed his run to stand. It would become the winning run.
Mother Teresa would be mad.
It's been that kind of year. Somewhere in each game, it seems, their season-long companion, Miss Fortune -- the female counterpart of Jim Price's Mojo -- appears to spoil the day for all involved with TWINS across their chests.
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