Minneapolis ? At the end of the first inning, Minnesota’s ace was long gone with another injury.

After three innings, the Twins trailed the Anaheim Angels 5-0.

But the Twins’ tired bullpen held on long enough and was rewarded by getting to watch the game-winning rally against the Angels’ relievers in the 10th.

Cristian Guzman, who tied the game in the eighth, drove in the winning run in the 10th with a sacrifice fly, giving the Twins a 7-6 win over the Angels on Thursday night after they wasted a chance to win it in the ninth inning.

“The way this started, it would’ve been easy to hang our heads and keep getting our butts kicked,” said outfielder Dustan Mohr. “But this team plays all 27 outs.”

Guzman had two hits and extended his hitting streak to a season-high 11 games for the Twins, who are an AL-best 18-7 at home.

But he wasn’t the real hero.

“I can’t say enough about our bullpen,” said manager Ron Gardenhire. “They just keep taking the ball and getting the job done.”

Hours after being activated from the disabled list, Twins starter Brad Radke reaggravated his injured right groin. Radke was going to be limited to five innings, but he only made it through 12 pitches.

Darin Erstad crushed a 1-0 pitch into the upper deck in right field, and on a pitch to the next batter, Troy Glaus, Radke hopped gingerly off the mound and was relieved by Jack Cressend. After the game, the Twins put him back on the 15-day DL.

The Twins, who lead Chicago in the AL Central by 21/2 games, have been hit hard by injuries, but Radke’s short night was also bad news for a taxed bullpen that pitched 72/3 innings Wednesday when starter Rick Reed left the game in Texas with a stiff neck.

But after Cressend gave up three runs in the third left with the Twins trailing by five, Minnesota relievers held the Angels to one run over the final seven innings.

“It’s one of those days where you’ve just got to give credit where credit’s due,” said Anaheim’s Troy Percival, “and their bullpen gets all the credit.”

Percival walked Doug Mientkiewicz and Torii Hunter to start the ninth. Despite falling behind the next three hitters, Percival got David Ortiz and Jacque Jones to pop out and struck out Corey Koskie to send it into extra innings.

“We had (Tony) Fiore up, so we were ready to go another 20 innings,” Gardenhire said. “It’s not often you can get a run off a guy like Percival. Did we get a run off Percival?”

No, but they came very close.

The Twins have never scored an earned run in 34 innings against Percival, and the Angels’ closer worked out of a jam in the ninth.

Problem was, Percival had thrown 41 of them at that point, so Lou Pote was summoned for the 10th.

Pote (0-1) walked Mohr, and A.J. Pierzynski singled him to third. With five infielders and nobody in center field, Guzman poked a fly ball off the end of his bat to left field.

The Twins missed a chance to take the lead after trailing 6-4 heading into the bottom of the eighth. Koskie hit a sacrifice fly off Al Levine to bring Minnesota within one. Guzman tied it with a soft single against Percival a run that was charged to Levine but Pierzynski ran through the stop sign at third and was thrown out at home to end the inning.

Adam Kennedy had three hits and an RBI and Darin Erstad homered for the Angels, who lost two of three to the Twins last weekend.

Eddie Guardado (1-1) pitched two scoreless innings for the win. He gave up a leadoff single to David Eckstein in the 10th but made a diving catch off Tim Salmon’s foul pop that glanced off a speaker and dropped between home and first.

Indians 11, Tigers 7

Cleveland Ellis Burks and Jim Thome each homered twice and drove in four runs as Cleveland Indians beat Detroit.

It was the 20th career two-homer game for Burks and Thome, who hit the Indians’ first back-to-back homers of the season in the second inning.

Thome hit his 13th homer in the fourth. The shot off Jose Lima (1-3) gave the Indians a 10-6 lead.

Mariners 5, Orioles 4

Baltimore Jeff Cirillo doubled in the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning, and Seattle blew a four-run lead before bouncing back to beat Baltimore. Seattle built a 4-0 lead in the second inning against Scott Erickson, but Baltimore used home runs by Jeff Conine and Brook Fordyce to draw even.

The Mariners took the lead for good in the ninth against Jorge Julio (2-3). Arthur Rhodes (3-1) quelled a Baltimore uprising by getting the final out in the eighth, and Kazuhiro Sasaki worked a perfect ninth for his 12th save.

Devil Rays 4, Athletics 3, 13 innings

St. Petersburg, Fla. Greg Vaughn hit a game-winning double in the 13th inning as Tampa snapped a seven-game losing streak against the Athletics.