"The attempt was to post a positive, second-day Justin Morneau's overturned home run. The Twins first baseman wasn't having any of it.

"It's the hardest I've hit the ball for a while, if you want to take anything from that," he said. "But I went 0 for 4 after that, so it doesn't mean anything. There aren't a lot of moral victories in this game."

Morneau clubbed a CC Sabathia fastball a good 400 feet into the plaza behind right field for a two-run homer with one out in the first inning Thursday night, but the umpiring crew quickly met and decided to review the homer on replay - and it was overturned relatively quickly.

"You can take three horrible swings, break three bats, and get three hits; you'll be happy," Morneau said. "You can line out three times and lose a game, and it doesn't mean anything.

"It felt good. It would have been a nice start to the game."

Morneau returned from a two-month stint on the disabled list (neck/arm/wrist) on Aug. 12, and Thursday's drive was briefly his first major league homer since May 31, when he hit two at Detroit. But crew chief Brian O'Nora overruled first-base ump Jim Wolf's on-field call, telling manager Ron Gardenhire he had seen a replay that showed the ball veering right in front of the foul pole.

Morneau and his manager still believe it was a home run, citing a replay that appeared to show the ball passing over and behind the foul pole."