DETROIT — I just filed my game story after the 19-3 debacle for the Twins and wanted to add a note about one play in particular.

Carlos Guillen hit an RBI double in the third inning, scoring Miguel Cabrera from first base. Anyone who has seen Cabrera run (rumble?) around the base knows how peculiar the play must have been.

Guillen hit the ball down the first-base line. Justin Morneau pointed first-base umpire Tom Hallion to a spot in the dirt where the ball landed on the foul side of the chalk line. Manager Ron Gardenhire came out and convinced Hallion to ask the other umpires if they saw it. Alas, they didn’t.

“[Hallion] just basically told me, ‘Hey, this one’s on me.’ ” Gardenhire said. “What am I going to say to that? He got turned around in a circle, and he thought it hit the chalk, and there’s a Wimbledon mark right beside it. That was one run. There were a lot more before, and a lot more after.”

Indeed, Cabrera’s run made it 6-2. In right field, Michael Cuddyer double pumped before throwing the ball to catcher Joe Mauer, who caught the ball up the line, and had Cabrera slide under the tag. Cuddyer said he waited because “there was no one to throw it, too.”

Anyway, Boof’s throwing error certainly looms as a bigger play, but I just wanted to clarify on the other one.

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