TAMPA BAY LEFT FIELDER CARL CRAWFORD leaps up to the wall but can't reach a game-winning home run by Minnesota's Justin Morneau. The Twins beat the Devil Rays, 3-2, on Thursday in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis ? Carl Crawford compounded one baserunning mistake with another, and Justin Morneau made him pay for it.

After Crawford’s two blunders caused a double play in the top of the ninth, Morneau led off the bottom of the inning with an opposite-field home run off Brian Stokes to lift the Minnesota Twins over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 3-2 on Thursday night.

“Right when you think you saw everything,” Minnesota’s Torii Hunter said, “you see something else. I’ve made mistakes before. We’ve all made mistakes, just not like that.”

After the Devil Rays rallied from a 2-0 deficit to tie the game in the eighth, Ben Zobrist led off the ninth with a single off Joe Nathan. Crawford then lined a double into the right-field corner and started blazing around the bases.

Tampa third base coach Tom Foley held Zobrist at third, but Crawford was right on his heels, and the two met at the bag when right fielder Michael Cuddyer’s relay throw came to Luis Castillo at second base.

Castillo saw the predicament and threw to catcher Joe Mauer, who caught the ball up the third base line and chased down Zobrist for out No. 1.

“I was running with my head down,” Crawford said. “I thought it was an automatic triple, and I was running with my head down. I didn’t see the stop sign, and I got caught up.”

Then, instead of staying on third base, Crawford broke back for second base. Mauer threw to shortstop Alexi Casilla to complete the 9-4-2-6 double play.

“I turned and saw two guys there on third base and I said, ‘What’s going on?”‘ Castillo said. “I’ve never seen a play like that. Never.”

Nathan (1-0) got Ty Wigginton to ground out to second to end the inning. Stokes then hung a 1-2 changeup that Morneau lofted toward the left-field seats. The ball landed in the first row, just over the outstretched glove of a leaping Crawford.

“That was crazy how quick it turned around,” Morneau said. “I don’t know if I’ll ever see that again. Two guys on third base to two guys out to it’s over.”

Indians 4, Angels 2

Milwaukee – Travis Hafner hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning, sending Cleveland back to Jacobs Field with a victory in its homestand away from home.

The Indians took two out of three in the series, moved from Cleveland to Milwaukee’s Miller Park after snow wiped out a four-game series against Seattle and left Jacobs Field unplayable.

The Indians expect to play a true home opener against the Chicago White Sox tonight.

Scott Shields (0-1) walked his first two batters in the eighth before Hafner homered. Aaron Fultz (2-0) got one out, and Joe Borowski pitched the ninth for his third save.

Tigers 5, Blue Jays 4

Toronto – Brandon Inge homered and drove in three runs, and Mike Maroth (2-0) limited Toronto to two runs and nine hits in six innings as Detroit won for the fifth time in six games.

Joel Zumaya pitched two innings for his first save.