Despite an 11-strikeout performance from Taj Bradley, including the Twins’ first immaculate inning in team history, the Twins were largely shut down by a guy named Gage Lee Jump on Tuesday to lose 4-2 to the Oakland/West Sacramento/Las Vegas A’s. The Twins have no business losing to this team. The A’s are nearly 30 games... Continue Reading »

If you thought the Twins’ Friday night loss to the Colorado Rockies — the worst team in the major leagues — was bad, what if I told you the Twins lost again and the series to the same team? Well, that’s exactly what happened. After the Twins’ come-from-behind-effort fell short on Friday, the Twins ran... Continue Reading »

First, the positives: The Twins took three of four games from the West Sacramento A’s, or whatever you want to call them, beating them 10-4, 10-3 and 6-1 before the A’s had had enough and responded with a 14-3 blowout win over the team from Minnesota on Thursday. So how much trouble does this spell... Continue Reading »

The Twins scored six runs early and four runs late to run away from the West Sacramento A’s, or whatever you want to call them, by a score of 10-4 on Monday in Game 1 of the four-game series. Although nearly ever player in the lineup got into the act in this one, it was... 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 »

I was reading a Patrick Reusse column the other day about Dave St. Peter, the Twins’ president and CEO who recently announced he is stepping down from those duties. I was about two-thirds into it when a graf about the uncertain status of the Twins stopped me cold. It had to with TV revenue, noting... Continue Reading »

The Twins’ Byron Buxton finally rejoined the team on Friday in the opener of a three-game set against the Cincinnati Reds, and he made an immediate impact, hitting a game-tying home run in the fifth inning. The good times didn’t last long, however. The Twins took that 1-1 tie into the top of the seventh... Continue Reading »

Through the first four games of the new season, the Twins were averaging 2.75 runs per game, the kind of run-scoring that isn’t going to win you many games. But that all changed Wednesday as the Twins scored seven runs on 11 hits, including a 5-run inning that quickly erased a one-run deficit and propelled... Continue Reading »

Rookie Matt Wallner crushed a first-inning grand slam and the Twins piled on from there, sending the Oakland A’s to their 109th loss of the season with an easy 11-3 win on Tuesday at Target Field. The Twins, now 84-73, end the season against two of the weakest clubs in baseball: the A’s and Colorado... Continue Reading »