Starter Taj Bradley allowed just two hits over seven innings, Trevor Larnach and Ryan Jeffers delivered big hits and the Twins won another series 4-2 on Sunday over the Los Angeles Angels, making it their fifth straight series win. The Twins are now a game under .500, three games back of the division lead in... Continue Reading »

Telling the schoolyard bully to shove it with a 4-2 win seems pretty sweet to me. And that’s exactly what happened to the Twins on Saturday as the “bully” emerged in the form of the Boston Red Sox’s Wilson Contreras. Wilson knocked over Kody Clemens with a head-first slide into first base, then appeared to... Continue Reading »

The three-game losing streak is now a four-game skid after the Twins really had nothing going against the Tampa Bay Rays in their 6-1 loss on Saturday. And it’s too bad because the starting pitching through the first 27 games of the season has been pretty good, including Bailey Ober on Saturday who made a... Continue Reading »

You never know when you’re going to have a Minnesota Twins moment. There I was watching You Tube again when a video popped up in my feed about former Twins third baseman Gary Gaetti, better known as the Rat or G-man, who, according to the video, played a role in eight triple plays, most of... Continue Reading »

You never know when you’re going to have a Minnesota Twins moment. Once again I was watching You Tube when a Sept. 6, 1986, game between the Twins and Boston Red Sox popped up in my feed. I settled in to watch it and was disappointed to see the Twins suffer a 3-2 walk-off loss... Continue Reading »

It’s a good thing the Twins got Monday off because they are going to need all the beauty sleep they can muster to sustain themselves through at least mid-August, according to a check of the baseball season calendar. It begins Tuesday with a three-game set versus the Lovable Losers, although this Cubs team should in... Continue Reading »

You never know when you’re going to have a Minnesota Twins moment. There I was, perusing the internet as I often do, when I came across a Twins Almanac tweet about a Twins/Yankees game played on April 29, 1972, in which Harmon Killebrew hit a rare triple and Jim Kaat tossed six innings of four-hit... Continue Reading »

Camilo Pascual, who pitched for 18 big league seasons, most of them with the Washington Senators and Twins, and who still holds a significant major league record, turned 91 last week on Jan. 20. Congratulations to him and happy birthday. Pascual recorded 174 wins and racked up more than 2,100 strikeouts, including four straight seasons... Continue Reading »

Bob Veale, a hard-throwing lefty for the Pittsburgh Pirates who led the majors in strikeouts in 1964 and finished second to Sandy Koufax in whiffs the following season, died last week. He was 89, the New York Times reported. When a major leaguer dies, particularly a pitcher, I usually check to see whether they ever... Continue Reading »