MINNEAPOLIS - It's going to be so awkward in that boat the next time Chris Paddack and Brooks Lee go fishing.
That's because Lee turned on a letter-high fastball from his greater Minnesota fishing buddy Sunday and drove it into the right-field seats, a grand slam that helped power the Minnesota Twins to an 8-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Target Field.
The win ended the Twins' three-game losing streak and prevented the Tigers from making some division-foe history: Detroit last swept a four-game series from the Twins in 1983 and had never, in the series' 65-year-history, done so in Minnesota.
Still haven't thanks to the Twins' rude welcome home to Paddack, whose four-season tenure at Target Field ended three days before the trade deadline last month. The right-hander, who has now m