Alex Kirilloff, who made his major league debut for the Twins in the postseason and accounted for one of only three hits in that 3-1 loss to the Astros, said farewell to Minnesota and his baseball career last week after he announced his retirement days before his 27th birthday. In some ways, it’s no surprise.... Continue Reading »

The Twins have scored 21 runs over their last nine games, which works out to 2.3 runs per game during that stretch. Another way to look at this is that the Twins aren’t going to win many games with that kind of production, and they didn’t again on Friday, collecting four insignificant hits in a... Continue Reading »

The Twins swept the woeful Chicago White Sox over the weekend and then took Game 1 from the lovable losers at Wrigley Field on Monday to extend the team’s winning streak to five games. The Cleveland Guardians and Kansas City Royals both lost, so the Twins are now 3.5 games back of the Guards and... Continue Reading »

Most baseball fans, if asked about the No. 1 starter on the Twins baseball staff, would likely say Pablo Lopez, and there’s good reason to after he set career marks in innings pitched and strikeouts in 2023. But Bailey Ober made a strong case for the role and designation on Sunday after he completely dazzled... Continue Reading »

The Twins’ series winning streak ended at six on Sunday after the team lost in Little League, walk-off fashion 3-2 to the San Francisco Giants. It’s amazing the game ended as it did because for six innings it appeared that Giants pitcher and Northwest native Blake Snell was on the verge of throwing a perfect... Continue Reading »

It appeared the rout was official after the Houston Astros took a 13-5 lead going into the bottom of the ninth inning at Target Field on Friday. But then the Twins staged the mother of all rallies by scoring seven runs, including a Carlos Correa grand slam off flame-throwing closer Josh Hader. That made it... Continue Reading »

Well, at least we know this much: the Twins can score a grand total of five runs and still win games. They did it twice against the Seattle Mariners, winning 5-1 and 5-3 over the weekend, and they did it once more Tuesday night in a 5-3 win versus the Detroit Tigers, the first of... Continue Reading »

The Twins got back to winning in a hurry on Saturday. The club scored in the first inning, the Oakland A’s followed suit, and then the Twins went to work, cracking a double, home run, single, single, double, single, double and one more single to take an 8-1 lead en route to an easy 10-2... Continue Reading »

The losing streak is over and now a new streak, the winning kind, is potentially at hand because the Twins head home to play three games against the lowly Colorado Rockies, followed by four more versus the somewhat improved Oakland A’s. At any rate, the five-game losing streak is over after the Twins pounced for... Continue Reading »