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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Gerald Laird hit a one-out homer in the 13th inning Thursday to give the Detroit Tigers a marathon 10-9 win over Minnesota.
Laird's hit was the 34th and final one of a game that took 5 hours to play.
Detroit tied it at 7-7 by scoring four times in the eighth, two of the runs coming on homers by Jhonny Peralta and Ryan Raburn. Minnesota quickly regained the lead in the bottom half of the inning on an RBI single by Alexi Casilla.
The Tigers again tied it in the ninth on a home run by Casper Wells, his first in 28 major league at bats this season.
Both sides produced a run in the 11th to keep the game going but Laird finally delivered the decisive blow against Nick Blackburn (8-9).
Jose Valverde (2-3) worked the final three innings to get the win, giving up two hits and striking out four. Only five of the Minnesota runs were earned thanks to two Detroit errors.
The Twins had their lead over the second-place Chicago White Sox in the American League Central cut to 3 1/2 games.
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Andrew Bynum scored the game's final points with 1:27 left in overtime Thursday and the Los Angeles Lakers eked out an 88-87 win over Boston.
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Macaulay Culkin is in "perfectly good health," his publicist said after the former child star was photographed looking gaunt and disheveled in New York.
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GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 9 (UPI) --
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured the first color image from orbit of the three-petal lander of NASA's 2004 Rover Spirit mission, scientists say.
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