Here are three thoughts following the Twins' 8-4 win over Tigers

TURNAROUND FOR GIBSON: Kyle Gibson made have had the defining moment of his season on Wednesday. He looked awful through two innings and probably would have been yanked in another circumstance, but...``We needed innings," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. ``We needed him to pitch. You can't just have two (crappy) innings and say, `that's enough.' We need him to pitch. This young man is going to be one of our pitchers. And we needed him to go back out and pitch." And Gibson did just that, putting up four scoreless innings to get through the sixth. Heck, he outlasted David Price, who was yanked after 5.2 innings. Strategy-wise. Gibson said Suzuki discovered that Tigers hitters weren't respecting his fastball, so when he called for fastballs, Gibson threw sinkers and focused on hitting both edges of the plate with something with more movement. And it worked.

PRESSURE ON PRICE: The Twins offense generated eight runs on six extra base hits - four doubles and two triples. But their at-bats against David Price were pretty good, as the lefthander had to throw 112 pitches to get through 5.2 innings. One key at-bat: Jordan Schafer's 10-pitch at-bat in the fourth. It resulted in a pop out, but Schafer forced Price to throw everything he had and played into him faltering in the sixth, when the Twins started to wail on him. ``That takes a lot out of a pitcher when they have to keep winging it in there," Gardenhire said. ``You look up and Price has 90 pitches after four or five innings. That's hard to do."

MIGGY: Miguel Cabrera flied out to the wall in left to end the game. But he had two singles and two doubles in his first four at-bats as his September pitching bashing continues. In 16 games this month, Cabrera is batting .469 with 15 runs scored 6 home runs and 12 RBI. Good grief.