Here are three thoughts following the Twins' win against the Tigers

MILONE ON POINT: Tommy Milone has figured out the right way to mix his pitches. He kept the game close as the Twins struggled with Anibal Sanchez earliy, then benefited when they knocked him out of the game in the seventh inning. Milone has posted a 2.33 ERA over his last three starts and has lowered his ERA to 4.71. It was obvious that Milone was not going to pitch inside too often to the Tigers, especially their righthanded hitters. Some picked up on it and tried the opposite field approach. Miguel Cabrera hit a shot in the fourth inning that Joe Mauer made a nice stop on before beating Cabrera to the bag. Cabrera then got the crowd excited with a deep drive down the right field line in the sixth that ended up going foul. Milone stuck with his game plan and it worked. ``It's a lot easier when you got guys making great plays out there," Milone said.

SUZUKI SIZZLES: Kurt Suzuki slapped singles in his first two at-bats and ended up 2-for-4 with two runs scored as he continued his sizzling run. Suzuki is batting .359 over his last 32 games. Twins manger Paul Molitor has resisted the urge to move Suzuki up in the batting order. But leaving him in the bottom third means he's getting on base for the top of the order, where Eduardo Nunez, Joe Mauer and others can drive him in. At least, that is what is supposed to happen.
``It's kind of a return to what we saw a couple of years ago," Molitor said. ``Improved contact. A little bit of power, we have seen. But most of all he has been squaring balls up. It is one of those confidence things. He knows he can hit."

GROSSMAN'S K'S: Robbie Grossman can draw walks. He can show occasional pop. But he can strike out a ton. On Tuesday, Grossman struck out four times, three of them swinging. The knock on Grossman is that he takes strike three too much, but that wasn't the case Tuesday. In 52 games with the Twins, Grossman has walked 39 times (very nice) and struck out 50 times (egads).