Baseball: Twins end Detroit's season

The Minnesota Twins will face the New York Yankees in the first round of Major League Baseball's postseason, after winning a thrilling one-game playoff against the Detroit Tigers in Minneapolis today.

The Twins and the Tigers were tied for the lead in the American League Central division when the regular season ended on Monday, necessitating a single "winner-takes-all" game.

This afternoon the Twins edged out the Tigers 6-5 in an extra-innings thriller at the Metrodome.

Detroit held leads twice in the game, but failed to hold on to them. The Twins won when Alexi Casilla drove in the winning run in the bottom of the 12th inning.

They now head to New York to start a best-of-five game series against the Yankees tomorrow.

- NZHERALD STAFF