The Tigers made a lot of contact against spot starter Pierson Ohls on Friday. The young right-hander faced 16 batters, and 15 put the ball in play. Worse, seven of them scored.
Colt Keith and Gleyber Torres started the night with singles, and an error by second baseman Luke Keaschall — on a potential double-play ball — opened the floodgates early in Detroit’s 7-0 victory in front of 27,282 at Target Field.
The Twins, who managed only two hits against four Tigers pitchers, have lost the first two of this four-game series against the American League Central leaders and five of their past seven overall, falling 14 games behind the Tigers.
Ohls (0-3) was charged with seven runs on eight hits and a pair of walks in 2⅓ innings, but only three of those runs were earned because Keaschall’s error on a sharp grounder by Kerry Carpenter loaded the bases with no outs, and all three runners wound up scoring on RBI singles by Dillon Dingler, Zach McKinstry and Javier Baez.
Pierson Ohl #62 of the Minnesota Twins pitches against the Detroit Tigers in the first inning of the game at Target Field on Aug. 15, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
That put the Twins into a 5-0 hole that they never threatened to climb out of, limited to just two hits — one an infield grounder by Keaschall — in six innings by Tigers starter Charlie Morton (8-10).
Morton walked three, hit a batter and struck out five as the Tigers won for the sixth time in eight games.
José Ureña, who started the last time he and Ohls piggy-backed a start, followed with six scoreless innings. He gave up two hits, walked one and fanned three.
Keaschall drew walks in the first and third innings, advancing the third base in the third when Matt Wallner was hit in the left knee by a Morton pitch and Brooks Lee reached on a fielder’s choice. But Royce Lewis was out on a pop foul, and Edouard Julien grounded out 1-3 to end the small threat.
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