 In the bottom half of the inning, manager Tom Kelly, responding to an inordinate number of throws over to first base and believing that Erickson was hesitant to pitch to Carter, took the unusual step of making a pitching change in the middle of an at-bat, bringing on reliever David West inheriting a 1-2 count.West then struck out Carter, Gruber and Maldonado.The Twins tied it in the sixth when Chuck Knoblauch doubled and scored on Kirby Puckett's single with a head-first slide at the plate.