"If Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had been at Comerica Park on Wednesday night to watch the Tigers' 6-5 loss to the Twins, he could have rewritten a couple of his famous poems.

Longfellow could have used some of his phrases from "The Village Blacksmith" to describe Minnesota's Jim Thome, who hit his 601st homer:

"A mighty man is he. . . the muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands."

Thome launched his third homer of his milestone series -- all to leftfield -- for a 1-0 lead in the second. Then he singled in the eighth to put the Twins ahead again.

Longfellow wrote the "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." On Wednesday night, there was material for "The Centerfield Rides of Ben Revere.""