MINNEAPOLIS -- After 10 matchups in three weeks, the Tigers and Twins won’t face each other again until a makeup game at Comerica Park at the end of August. The Tigers won’t return to Target Field until the final week of the regular season. That might be for the best.

After three back-and-forth battles, these teams need some time away from each other.

“We’re tired of the Twins, and they’re probably tired of us,” manager A.J. Hinch said after the long-awaited final out of a 17-14 slugfest on Wednesday afternoon.

The Tigers clinched their first series win at Target Field since July 21-23, 2017. But like the extra-inning battles the previous two nights, this series rubber match was a grind that turned out to be historic.

No team in American League history -- or NL history since 1900 -- had allowed seven home runs in a game, gone homerless and still won, according to Stathead. No Tigers team in 60 years had scored 17 runs in a game without a homer, last accomplished in a game in which Norm Cash and Rocky Colavito combined for three doubles and nine RBIs.

Detroit seemingly had the game in command for starter Wily Peralta after an eight-run, 11-batter top of the fourth inning off Twins starter J.A. Happ and former Tiger Beau Burrows built a 10-0 lead. By the time Kyle Funkhouser stranded the bases loaded to end the bottom half, Minnesota had brought the potential tying run to the plate, a threat the Twins would repeat against Derek Holland in the next inning.

By the time Joe Jimenez struck out Max Kepler to end the eighth, the Twins had the potential tying run on base, having homered four times in their second six-run inning of the afternoon. Detroit pitchers retired the Twins in order in four of the other seven innings.

“Credit to them for continuing the fight when they’re down by 10,” Hinch said. “And then both teams decide to throw haymakers the rest of the day.”

Considering the nature of the hits, the Twins were the ones throwing the haymakers. The Tigers were countering with combinations.

“We’re just trying to have good at-bats one after another and pass the baton to the next guy,” said catcher Grayson Greiner.

Former Tigers manager Jim Leyland hated games like this. Hinch knows how he feels. Managers see an opportunity to rest tired relievers and maybe get tired hitters off the field, but double-digit leads can get small so quickly that managers get stuck. In this case, a 10-run lead was halved within 18 pitches.

By the time Gregory Soto -- who threw 42 pitches on Monday -- ended the final Twins threat in the ninth, Daniel Norris was warming up in the bullpen. He had finished out Tuesday’s 11-inning comeback win. He was the last reliever Hinch felt comfortable about bringing in, though he could’ve turned to Michael Fulmer -- who hasn’t thrown back-to-back games since his neck injury last month -- in an emergency.

By the time a rally fades, that lopsided game becomes a game a team absolutely has to win, as Leyland would put it.

“It is a challenge mentally,” Hinch said. “It would have been a gut-wrenching loss because of the way that the day started.”

The Twins homered seven times, including a Ryan Jeffers grand slam off Peralta that brought them within 10-5. The Tigers not only went homerless, they had seven extra-base hits, including a bases-clearing double from Eric Haase and an RBI double from Jeimer Candelario for four nerve-calming insurance runs in the eighth.

Derek Hill had two RBI infield singles, including a bunt that brought in Willi Castro in a two-run second inning. Two of the Tigers’ three outs in the fourth inning were sacrifice fly balls. Detroit drew nine walks, seven of which came around to score.

“All that coach stuff that we say about how to put together innings and make it difficult on the other guy, take whatever he gives you, whatever line you want, it holds true,” Hinch joked. “And in a game like this, we needed every good at-bat that we had.”

The Tigers scored 17 runs in a game without a homer for the first time since July 23, 1961. That was a 17-14 win over the Kansas City A’s that included seven errors between the two teams, plus the aforementioned damage from Cash and Colavito.

“To put up 17 runs with no home runs, you have to do your job and pass the baton,” said Greiner, one of six Tigers with multihit games.

The Tigers scored double-digit runs and allowed six runs in the first four innings of a game for just the fifth time in franchise history, and the first time since 1997. Two of the previous four times were against the Twins, including a 24-11 loss on April 24, 1996.