DETROIT >> Zach McKinstry had three hits, including one of Detroit’s four home runs, and the Tigers went on to beat the Twins 10-5 on Saturday afternoon.

Riley Greene, Kerry Carpenter and Gleyber Torres also homered for the Tigers.

Casey Mize (8-2) gave up two runs on five hits and one walk in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out five as he improved to 5-0 with a 2.00 ERA in six starts at home this season.

Bailey Ober (4-6) took the loss, allowing seven runs on 11 hits, including all four home runs. He walked one and struck out five.

The Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the second when Spencer Torkelson doubled and scored on a sacrifice fly. After Minnesota went ahead 2-1 on Buxton’s two-run homer in the third, Detroit tied the game in the bottom of the inning on Carpenter’s homer.

Colt Keith made it 3-2 in the fourth with a sacrifice fly and Torres followed with a two-run homer.

Greene led off the fifth with Detroit’s third home run to move the lead to 6-2, and McKinstry’s lead-off homer in the sixth made it a five-run game.Carlos Correa hit a two-run homer in the eighth, but Wenceel Pérez hit a two-run double in the bottom of the inning.

Key moment

The Twins nearly took the lead in the second inning, but Carpenter leaped to keep a fly ball from Ryan Jeffers from clearing the left field fence.

“You look at my numbers, you look at my expected numbers -- I was rocking over a 100-point gap between expected (batting average) and regular coming into this game and then having two homers taken away,” Jeffers told reporters. “I hit 103 (exit velocity) at 32 (degree launch angle), that’s a --- I don’t know whether it was going to be gone or not. But 103 at 32 to that part of the park should go. Just building up that expected number gap.”

Jeffers noted he has to laugh at his lack of luck.

“That’s the maturity in me understanding you play the long game and you keep putting good swings on the ball, good stuff is going to happen,” Jeffers said. “When you’re young in this game it’s hard to realize that. But it’s how it has to be.”

Key stat

Buxton homered and stole a base in the same game for the 15th time, tying Gary Gaetti for third place on the Twins career list.

“We actually had good at-bats today. Buck was fantastic again, another great day for him. You know, I’m getting in a habit of saying that right now, and that’s a good thing for us,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli told reporters. “It’s also — DH is not a place where he’s been very often this year, so to see him be able to move to the DH spot and still go up there and have the same types of excellent at-bats, that’s a good sign, too. Because there might be some days where we have him over there.

“Never a bad thing to get him going and feeling good when he is the DH,” Baldelli said. “He likes playing in the field, but when he’s the DH, it’s nice to know he’s going to be good with it. And after a day like this, I’m sure he will be.”

Up next

The teams finish the three-game series in the first Sunday night game at Comerica Park since 2017.

Twins RHP Chris Paddock (3-6, 4.64) faces Tigers ace LHP Tarik Skubal (9-2, 2.29), who is 9-0 in his last 14 starts.