Baseball-Highlights of Thursday’s Major League Baseball games (Reuters)

April 4 (SportsDirect) – Twins 8, Tigers 2 Josh Willingham and Trevor Plouffe hit home runs in support of Mike Pelfrey as Minnesota claimed the rubber match of the three-game series. Twins rookie Aaron Hicks delivered a two-run single in a five-run eighth inning for his first major-league hit, and shortstop Pedro Florimon had a two-run double in the big frame. Pelfrey (1-0) pitched 5 1/3 innings in his Twins debut, allowing two unearned runs on five hits to earn his first win since Aug. 24, 2011. Six relievers combined to shut out the Tigers the rest of the way. …