DETROIT (AP) — Kerry Carpenter homered in a three-run sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers rallied for a 6-3 win over the Minnesota Twins on Monday night.
Wenceel Pérez and Dillon Dingler also homered for the Tigers, while Ryan Jeffers, Trevor Larnach and Matt Wallner had homers for Minnesota.
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Detroit Tigers shortstop Zach McKinstry, right, and Minnesota Twins' Matt Wallner react while walking off the field during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Minnesota Twins' Matt Wallner celebrates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Detroit Tigers' Wenceel Perez, right, celebrates with Spencer Torkelson (20) after hitting a tying two-run home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Detroit Tigers designated hitter Riley Greene, left, is called out at second base by umpire Ben May, center, as Minnesota Twins shortstop Brooks Lee (2) watches during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Detroit Tigers' Kerry Carpenter tosses his bat after hitting a go-ahead two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Detroit has won six of its last eight games since losing 12 of 13. The Twins have lost five of six.
Casey Mize (10-4) picked up the win, allowing three runs in six innings while Kyle Finnegan pitched the ninth for his second Tigers save. Noah Davis (0-2) took the loss in relief.
Minnesota only had two hits in the first five innings, but they were both long home runs. Jeffers hit one to the flag pole in center in the first, and Larnach hit a fifth-inning shot deep into the right-field stands.
Pérez tied the game with a two-run homer in the fifth, but Wallner made it 3-2 in the sixth with a homer into the shrubbery above the centerfield fence.
Javier Báez scored the tying run in the bottom of the sixth and Carpenter followed with a 437-foot home run to right to make it 5-3. Dingler's solo homer in the seventh gave the Tigers a three-run lead.
Twins opener Travis Adams held Detroit to one infield single in the first four innings, but he allowed Pérez's tying homer in the fifth.
Minnesota's three homers averaged 430.3 feet, with Larnach (434) and Wallner (437) each clearing 430 feet.
The teams play the second of a three-game series on Tuesday night, with Tigers RHP Chris Paddack (4-9, 4.77 ERA) facing Minnesota RHP Zebby Matthews (2-3, 5.67). Paddack has started two Tigers-Twins games this season, losing both as a member of the Twins. He was traded to Detroit on July 28.
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Detroit Tigers shortstop Zach McKinstry, right, and Minnesota Twins' Matt Wallner react while walking off the field during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Minnesota Twins' Matt Wallner celebrates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Detroit Tigers' Wenceel Perez, right, celebrates with Spencer Torkelson (20) after hitting a tying two-run home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Detroit Tigers designated hitter Riley Greene, left, is called out at second base by umpire Ben May, center, as Minnesota Twins shortstop Brooks Lee (2) watches during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
Detroit Tigers' Kerry Carpenter tosses his bat after hitting a go-ahead two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other allegations.
Yoon was impeached, arrested and dismissed as president after his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024 triggered huge public protests calling for his ouster.
The most significant criminal charge against him alleges that his martial law enforcement amounted to a rebellion, and the independent counsel has requested the death sentence in the case that is to be decided in a ruling next month.
Yoon has maintained he didn’t intend to place the country under military rule for an extended period, saying his decree was only meant to inform the people about the danger of the liberal-controlled parliament obstructing his agenda. But investigators have viewed Yoon’s decree as an attempt to bolster and prolong his rule, charging him with rebellion, abuse of power and other criminal offenses.
In Friday’s case, the Seoul Central District Court sentenced Yoon for defying attempts to detain him, fabricating the martial law proclamation, and sidestepping a legally mandated full Cabinet meeting and thus depriving some Cabinet members who were not convened of their due rights to deliberate on his decree.
Judge Baek Dae-hyun said in the televised ruling that imposing “a grave punishment” was necessary because Yoon hasn’t shown remorse and has only repeated “hard-to-comprehend excuses.” The judge also restoring legal systems damaged by Yoon’s action was necessary.
Yoon’s defense team said they will appeal the ruling, which they believe was “politicized” and reflected “the unliberal arguments by the independent counsel.” Yoon’s defense team argued the ruling “oversimplified the boundary between the exercise of the president’s constitutional powers and criminal liability.”
Prison sentences in the multiple, smaller trials Yoon faces would matter if he is spared the death penalty or life imprisonment at the rebellion trial.
Park SungBae, a lawyer who specializes in criminal law, said there is little chance the court would decide Yoon should face the death penalty in the rebellion case. He said the court will likely issue a life sentence or a sentence of 30 years or more in prison.
South Korea has maintained a de facto moratorium on executions since 1997 and courts rarely hand down death sentences. Park said the court would take into account that Yoon’s decree didn’t cause casualties and didn’t last long, although Yoon hasn’t shown genuine remorse for his action.
South Korea has a history of pardoning former presidents who were jailed over diverse crimes in the name of promoting national unity. Those pardoned include strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who received the death penalty at a district court over his 1979 coup, the bloody 1980 crackdowns of pro-democracy protests that killed about 200 people, and other crimes.
Some observers say Yoon will likely retain a defiant attitude in the ongoing trials to maintain his support base in the belief that he cannot avoid a lengthy sentence but could be pardoned in the future.
On the night of Dec. 3, 2024, Yoon abruptly declared martial law in a televised speech, saying he would eliminate “anti-state forces” and protect “the constitutional democratic order.” Yoon sent troops and police officers to encircle the National Assembly, but many apparently didn’t aggressively cordon off the area, allowing enough lawmakers to get into an assembly hall to vote down Yoon’s decree.
No major violence occurred, but Yoon's stunt caused the biggest political crisis in South Korea and rattled its diplomacy and financial markets. For many, his decree, the first of its kind in more than four decades in South Korea, brought back harrowing memories of past dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s, when military-backed leaders used martial law and emergency measures to deploy soldiers and tanks on the streets to suppress demonstrations.
After Yoon's ouster, his liberal rival Lee Jae Myung became president via a snap election last June. After taking office, Lee appointed three independent counsels to look into allegations involving Yoon, his wife and associates.
Yoon's other trials deal with charges like ordering drone flights over North Korea to deliberately inflame animosities to look for a pretext to declare martial law. Other charges accuse Yoon of manipulating the investigation into a marine’s drowning in 2023 and receiving free opinion surveys from an election broker in return for a political favor.
A supporter of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shouts slogans outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs and flags outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
A supporter of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol waits for a bus carrying former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs as police officers stand guard outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs and flags outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
A picture of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is placed on a board as supporters gather outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
