It may be dreary, rainy evening here in the Lost City, but ah, it's still been a beautiful day.

Why, you ask?

Because today -- after months of trailing by 4 or 5 games --the Minnesota Twins caught up with the Detroit Tigers and are tied for first place in the American League Central.

And it happened thanks to an eighth-inning home run by Michael Cuddyer, God bless his fully-healed fingers.

Not a moment too soon, by the way -- tomorrow is the last day of the regular season.

Both teams stand at 85 wins and 76 losses. The Twins have won seven out of their last ten games, while Detroit have dropped six of their last ten, and are currently on a three-game losing streak.

If both teams win tomorrow, or if both lose, a tie-breaker game will be played on Tuesday.

The Twins seem to have taken an interest in dramatic season finishes lately. Last season, they battled to a division tie with the Chicago White Sox, and played a tie-breaker game on September 30, 2008. The Sox won 1-0.

And in 2006, the Twins took sole possession of the AL Central on the very last day of the season -- the first time in the entire season they'd done so. The team they displaced that day was the Detroit Tigers.

Detroit had the last laugh, though. Minnesota got swept in the division series by Oakland, while the wild-card Tigers went on to meet the Cardinals in the World Series.

For the record -- and baseball is all about careful record-keeping -- the Cardinals won that series, four games to one.