Minnesota Twins share AL Player of Week

Minnesota Twins teammates Jason Kubel and Delmon Young shared the American League Player of the Week for the last week of the season.

Kubel and Young led the Twins’ late surge, which saw the team go 5-2 to finish its regular season tied for with Detroit for the American League Central division lead.

The Twins and the Tigers will play a one-game playoff in Minnesota Tuesday to determine the division champion, with the winner playing the Yankees in New York in the American League Divisional Series.

Young hit safely in all seven games last week and went 13-for-29 with six runs scored. In a weekend sweep of the Royals, he hit three home runs and had 10 RBI.

Kubel was 11-for-26 and hit a pair of three-run home runs Sunday. His six-RBI game pushed him over the 100-RBI mark for the first time in his career.