Jose Miranda, running from first to second base on the play, slid into the bag and assumed he was out because the ball beat him there. So, Miranda started trotting back to the dugout. The only issue? Miranda was called safe because Tigers second baseman Colt Keith missed touching the bag.

The Minnesota Twins have optioned third baseman Jose Miranda to Triple-A St. Paul, according to the transaction section of his official MLB page. This came nearly immediately after a game in which Miranda made a pretty terrible mental error.

One Minnesota Twins player committed a blunder so bad over the weekend that it got him demoted. Twins infielder Jose Miranda embarrassed himself on the basepaths during Saturdays

Dillon Dingler finished 3-for-5 with an RBI, Zach McKinstry drove in two, and the Detroit Tigers held on for a 7-6 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night in Minneapolis.

Another run scored on Trey Sweeney’s groundout, giving the Tigers the lead before Topa could extract the Twins from the mess. All told, it was a four-run inning, one that completely wiped out the three-run lead the Twins had scrapped for an inning prior.