Royce Lewis snapped a long hitless streak, Trevor Larnach and Brooks Lee had six of the Twins’ 13 hits and DaShawn Keirsey Jr. delivered the most important hit of the game: a bottom of the 10th inning base knock to walk-off the San Francisco Giants 7-6 and extend the team’s winning streak to eight games.... Continue Reading »

You never know when you’re going to have a Minnesota Twins moment. But when I do, it’s usually because of something I see on social media, and so it was as I discovered an old game film* of the Twins knocking off the Chicago White Sox 13-6 on Sept. 21, 1976, at Comiskey Park. The... Continue Reading »

It’s back to the well with another look at “The Baseball Codes,” a book about the unwritten rules of the game, including the business of beanballs. Hitting a batter, it turns out, is not always about retaliating after the batter takes the pitcher deep, or tosses the bat too far, or stares too intently at... Continue Reading »

The Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees on Friday in Game 1 of their playoff series. But I’m no fan of either team, so let’s remember the year 1977 when the Twins rolled into Fenway Park for a doubleheader and blew the doors off the place. Of course, I was too young to... Continue Reading »

Calvin Coolidge Ermer, who managed the Twins for part of 1967 and all of 1968, is one of 991 players in major league history to appear in one game, according to Baseball-Reference.com. That moment for Ermer, better known as a “cup of coffee” in baseball terms, came on Sept. 26, 1947 with the Washington Senators.... Continue Reading »