It’s pretty simple, really: The Twins have a winning record with Byron Buxton in the lineup and a losing one without him, which explains why the club dropped its third straight series on Sunday, losing 4-3 to the Milwaukee Brewers and flame-throwing righty Jake Misiorowski, a pitcher who regularly throws at 100 miles per hour... Continue Reading »

All the hope and joy created by Tuesday’s walk-off win over the Kansas City Royals vanished faster than you can say Royce Lewis after Byron Buxton landed on the injured list, Joe Ryan turned in another crummy start and worst of all, former Twins pitcher Randy Dobnak — the Dobber — who toiled for a... Continue Reading »

Perhaps Glen Perkins, a former Twins relief pitcher who was in the radio booth on Monday with broadcast partner Kris Atteberry, put it best as he tried to wrap his head around what was happening to the Twins in their Game 1 tilt against the Cleveland Guardians. “Make it make sense,” said Perkins on a... Continue Reading »

The streak of five straight series wins is over after the Twins dropped two of three games to the Lovable Losers, including a 10-1 defeat on Sunday in which starter Zebby Matthews really brought nothing to the table. The question now is: Which second-half Twins team are we going to get? Are we going to... Continue Reading »

The Twins won again on Tuesday, getting a 3-1 victory at home over the never-easy-to-beat Cleveland Guardians. That’s three wins in a row for Minnesota. They also are 7-3 in their last three games, two games under .500, three games back in the AL Central division and 1.5 games back in the Wild Card hunt.... Continue Reading »

It’s the best kind of Independence Day celebration for this fan because the Twins, a team that usually wilts when facing the New York Yankees, found its footing again on Saturday and showed off the American League’s best run-scoring offense by clobbering six home runs in an 11-4 rout of the Bronx Bombers at the... Continue Reading »

After getting swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Twins came out Friday and wasted no time against the lowly Colorado Rockies by scoring two runs in the first inning, two runs in the second and three in the fifth to take a commanding seven-run lead. But then the Twins bullpen — who else? —... Continue Reading »

Is there any point in playing the big-money, big-talent, big-everything Los Angeles Dodgers when the outcome seems preordained? I imagine a lot of mid-market major league teams feel this way, and no doubt the Twins are among them after they returned home and lost by a run on Monday and then were blown out by... Continue Reading »

Byron Buxton hit a grand slam in the Twins’ runaway win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday, but it was the bottom of the order that really put on a show. The six through nine hitters: Brooks Lee, Victor Caratini, Luke Keaschall and Ryan Kreidler were a combined  13-for-21 (.619) with 11 runs scored and... Continue Reading »