Scoreboard Watching (10/6/09): Tigers @ Twins, 2p

Rick Porcello (14-9, 4.04) vs. Scott Baker (15-9, 4.36). COMMENTS: If you're a fan of baseball, or just someone who doesn't want to work this afternoon, then you'll be tuning in to this game, the 163rd of the season for the Tigers and Twins, who are competing for the right to go play the Yankees in the Bronx. This is also the last quasi-regular season game ever to be played in the Metrodome; the Twins also played a 163rd game last year, in Comiskey Park, only to lose to the White Sox 1-0. Will a home-field crowd advantage, and emotional ties to giant center-field trashbags, buoy the spirits of the Twins? We'll see.