This time the bullpen did its job. Nick Gordon hit a solo home run and four pitchers, including three relievers, stood their ground to preserve the lead and give the Twins a 1-0 win over the Cleveland Guardians. The Twins and Cleveland are once again tied for the lead in the AL Central. Devin Smeltzer... Continue Reading »

The Twins scored 10 runs on 12 hits, including four home runs, a triple and a double on Wednesday, and yet they still found a way to lose to the Cleveland Guardians 11-10. It was the second consecutive game that the Twins have lost by one run. And once again you can point your finger... Continue Reading »

The team that dropped two of three games to the Arizona Diamondbacks returned home to Target Field Tuesday night. Unfortunately, the Twins played like they were still stuck in Phoenix. The Twins were 2-for-13 with runners in scoring position, struck out 15 times as a team and finally fell in 11 innings to the Cleveland... Continue Reading »

The Twins turned a promising road trip into a ho-hum affair after they lost two of three games to one of the most mysterious lineups in baseball. I thought the Tampa Bay Rays had won the honors of no-name lineups, but no, that distinction now goes to the Arizona Diamondbacks. I didn’t recognize a single... Continue Reading »

After three years at the Minneapolis Tribune, reporter Molly Ivins, who would go on to become a celebrated columnist/humorist in her home state of Texas, finally had a come-to-Jesus moment about her career. She was frustrated working within what she viewed as the constraints of the Tribune and increasingly wrestled with the notion that objective... Continue Reading »

The Twins won their second consecutive series on Wednesday with a 5-0 win over the Seattle Mariners. The Twins won 3-2 on Monday, were blanked 5-0 on Tuesday and then returned the favor the following day. Twins pitching scattered five hits over nine innings, including a five inning, three-hit performance from Sonny Gray, who finally... Continue Reading »

The Twins quickly put their disappointing 10-7 loss to the Yankees behind them on Friday with a 9-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. The Twins and Rays took a 1-1 tie into the fifth inning when the Twins exploded for six runs, including Byron Buxton’s second homer of the game. He now has 17... Continue Reading »

The Twins put the game in motion early and added a couple of solo home runs after that to beat the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday and win the series. The “small ball” looked like this: A Luis Arraez walk, a steal of second base and then Max Kepler singled him home to take a 1-0... Continue Reading »

After a nine-run fifth inning, including a grand slam, propelled the Twins to 12-8 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Friday, the Twins reverted to recent form and struggled to score at all, finally falling to the Guardians in the 10th inning by a score of 3-2 on Saturday. The lack of scoring was somewhat... Continue Reading »