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MINNEAPOLIS -- Kyle Gibson lost his grip in the middle of the game. This entire season has essentially been slipping out of his hands.Cameron Maybin reached base three times and drove in three runs, including a go-ahead two-run single in the sixth inning that gave the Detroit Tigers a spark in an 8-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.Gibson (5-8) failed to get an out in the sixth inning, leaving with seven hits, five runs and four walks allowed. He struck out four in his discouraging step back from the career-high nine innings he logged last week in winning at Atlanta.Didnt feel as fresh, Gibson said. Didnt feel as sharp.Anibal Sanchez (7-12) pitched seven innings to win a start on the road for the first time since the first week of the season, and the Tigers broke the game open in the seventh with soaring home runs by Erick Aybar and Victor Martinez.Brian Dozier gave Minnesota the lead in the fifth with his 29th homer, a new career high, but Gibson couldnt hold it.Literally.He threw two of the teams three wild pitches in the decisive sixth, when rain started to fall hard and the Tigers tallied three runs on three singles and a walk.Its nothing that I havent dealt with before, but its always just kind of a variable when youre out there, said Gibson, whose ERA rose to 5.09.Detroit entered the day in fourth place in the AL wild-card race, three games out of the second spot. The Tigers won for the second straight time following a 3-10 stretch that severely damaged their postseason bid, but Martinez and Miguel Cabrera each had three hits. J.D. Martinez had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 13 games, the longest active string in the league.Moved to the bullpen in June, Sanchez was 1-6 with an 8.76 ERA in his 10 turns outside of Detroit until this critical performance to lift the lid on a series against the worst team in the league. He surrendered six hits with no walks, following seven scoreless innings with one hit allowed against Kansas City last week.Right after the Tigers took command in the sixth, Sanchez needed only seven pitches for three outs in the bottom of the inning.Barely half (51) of Gibsons 98 pitches were strikes. He was one strike away from escaping the second inning unscathed, after Justin Uptons double put runners at second and third with one out, but Maybin forced in the games first run with a walk.He thinks he can make pitches, manager Paul Molitor said. A lot of times theyre close.Maybin, hitting ninth as a precaution for his sprained left thumb that had him on the disabled list until Sunday, walked again to lead off the fifth. He stole second, took third on a throwing error by catcher Juan Centeno and then jogged home to tie the game on a single by Aybar.The Twins have lost five games in a row for the first time since June 14-18.Im holding on the hope were going to play better and get back on track, Molitor said.HOMER HAPPYDozier, who went deep 28 times last season, has the most home runs by a Twins player since Josh Willingham hit 35 in 2012.Itll be fun if we see him get to 30, Molitor said. Thats a pretty big number for a little second baseman.With 20 homers since June 25, Dozier leads the major leagues. 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Esa Lindell and Rasmus Ristolainen replied for Finland (1-1-0) Lindell opened the scoring for Finland just 41 seconds into the game, but the hosts quickly regained their composure and tied the score less than four minutes later on Wennbergs first of the game.WASHINGTON -- Breanna Stewart and Sue Bird scored 17 points apiece and the Seattle Storm beat the Washington Mystics 81-76 on Friday night in a critical showdown between teams battling for the final playoff spot.The Storm (14-17) won their third straight on the road to move into a tie for seventh place with Phoenix, 1 /2 games in front of the Mystics (12-18) in the chase for the final playoff spot.Ramu Tokashiki, who had 13 points, scored Seattles first seven points of the fourth quarter to close a 16-1 run that put the Storm up 70-61. The Mystics scored the next eight, the first six by Nattasha Cloud, to make it a one-point game.dddddddddddd.Jewell Loyds step-back 20-footer with 2:05 left made it 79-76 for the Storm and both teams missed several chances before Loyds two free throws with less than a second remaining iced it.Stewart had 10 rebounds, and the Storm had a 36-26 advantage on the boards. Bird had nine assists and seven rebounds.Emma Messeman led Washington, which scored 118 points in a win over Chicago on Wednesday night, with 15 points. ' ' '