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Florida, Alabama are 1-2 in BCS rankings
Tuesday, November 10
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Detroit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 6 | 14 | 0 |
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| Batting Stats - Detroit | |||||||||||
| Player | Pos | AB | R | H | RBI | 2B | 3B | HR | W | K | Avg |
| Marcus Thames | 1B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.28 |
| Placido Polanco | 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.32 |
| Carlos Guillen | 3B | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.30 |
| Ivan Rodriguez | C | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.28 |
| Curtis Granderson | CF | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.29 |
| Gary Sheffield | DH | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.23 |
| Clete Thomas | LF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.32 |
| Ryan Raburn | LF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.21 |
| Miguel Cabrera | PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.28 |
| Matt Joyce | RF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.21 |
| Edgar Renteria | SS | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.27 |
| Total | -- | 37 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | -- |
| Batting Stats - Minnesota | |||||||||||
| Player | Pos | AB | R | H | RBI | 2B | 3B | HR | W | K | Avg |
| Justin Morneau | 1B | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.31 |
| Alexi Casilla | 2B | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.33 |
| Nick Punto | 3B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.26 |
| Mike Redmond | C | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.30 |
| Carlos Gomez | CF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.27 |
| Craig Monroe | DH | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.22 |
| Delmon Young | LF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.28 |
| Denard Span | RF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.30 |
| Brendan Harris | SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.24 |
| Total | -- | 31 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | -- |
| Pitching Stats - Detroit | |||||||||||||
| Team | GM | W | L | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | PC | ST | ERA |
| Nate Robertson | Loss | 6 | 7 | 4.00 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 73 | 49 | 5.56 |
| Zach Miner | 3 | 3 | 2.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 24 | 4.23 | |
| Bobby Seay | 1 | 1 | 2.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 3.16 | |
| Pitching Stats - Minnesota | |||||||||||||
| Team | GM | W | L | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | PC | ST | ERA |
| Scott Baker | Win | 5 | 2 | 6.00 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 100 | 77 | 3.65 |
| Brian Bass | 3 | 2 | 1.20 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 20 | 4.53 | |
| Joe Nathan | Save | 0 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 1.30 |
| Dennys Reyes | 2 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2.25 | |