The Twins fell to 4-1 on the season against the Oakland A’s on Tuesday after the Athletics pulled away in the seventh inning for a 5-2 win. Dylan Bundy was back on the mound after he was sidelined by COVID-19, although he was pulled after only three innings and 54 pitches in favor of Josh... Continue Reading »

Yes, the St. Louis Browns* are going to win some of the time. And they did just that on Wednesday, chasing Twins starter Dylan Bundy with six runs in the third and three more in the fourth en route to a 9-4 win. The Twins will try again Thursday to get the series win. Bundy... Continue Reading »

The Twins overcame some cheap hits and a couple of errors to finally run way from the St. Louis Browns* by a score of 7-2 on Tuesday. The Twins have now won 11 of their last 12 games and improved to 15-9 in the American League Central after they started the season 4-8. They go... Continue Reading »

Now that’s more like it. The Byron Buxton show was on full display Saturday as the outfielder returned to his spot at the top of the order. And he didn’t miss a beat, cranking out four hits, including a double and home run, in four trips to the plate to pace the Twins to a... Continue Reading »

Twins starting pitcher Joe Ryan looked great, Miguel Sano finally broke out of a long hitless streak with a home run and the Rod Carew-like Luis Arraez cracked an RBI double to pace the Twins to an 8-4 win over the Boston Red Sox on Friday. But all of that was overshadowed by what happened... Continue Reading »

Plenty has been written about former baseball manager Gene Mauch, one of the winningest mangers in baseball with more than 1,900 wins, but who also had more than 2,000 losses, including an epic collapse with the 1964 Philadelphia Phillies that has attracted a lot of spilled ink over the years. But in reading about Mauch,... Continue Reading »

It never fails: A current or former Twins player is in the news and before long I have stumbled across something online that is entirely new to me. Who has been in the news? Former Twins Jim Kaat and Tony Oliva, both of whom were recently elected to the Class of 2022 of the National... Continue Reading »

Calvin Griffith’s tenure as owner of the Minnesota Twins came to an end in 1984, the year he sold the team. But for all intents and purposes it really ended on Sept. 28, 1978, a date which will live in infamy for Twins fans. That’s when the old cherub shot off his mouth in the... Continue Reading »

The Twins’ disappointing 2021 season is winding down to a disappointing close after team pitching served up 10 runs on Thursday and 11 more on Friday. The Twins lost 10-7 to the Detroit Tigers on Thursday, a game that was tit-for-tat for most of it until Motown pulled away late. As for Friday’s loss to... Continue Reading »