May 22, 1968 at Metropolitan Stadium
Twins 4, Tigers 3 (23-14)
The Tigers lost their rubber game with the Twins despite coming back from two runs down to tie it in the top of the eighth. Don Wert led off the inning with his second homerun of the game to make it a one run contest and then after a Gate Brown pinch hit triple, Al Kaline singled to tie the game. Unfortunately, Fred Lasher gave up a run in relief of Mickey Lolich in the bottom of the eighth to blow the comeback.
Wert hit his fourth and fifth homeruns of the season and outside of that, the Tigers didn’t get much at the plate. A decent start by Mickey Lolich went to waste and he gave up three runs on six hits and two walks with five strikeouts in seven innings.