As I said in my previous post, I urged the Twins to make hay against the Baltimore Orioles because they are about to face three good National League teams in the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres. Why is this so important? The Twins are 13-23 against the National League this season, according... Continue Reading »

The Twins survived a dominant performance from Cleveland Guardians pitcher Gavin Williams, then scored three runs off one of the league’s best bullpens to edge the Guards in a classic Minnesota/Cleveland nail-biter 3-1 in 12 innings on Thursday. The win earned the Twins a split of the four-game series with Cleveland. It wasn’t a sweep... 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 »

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 »

Josh Bell and his golf club-like swing clubbed a three-run homer, Byron Buxton added a solo blast — his 23rd of the season — and the Twins took care of business over the Texas Rangers in a little more than two hours for a 4-2 win. Does Bell like to play golf in the off-season?... Continue Reading »

It was a bullpen day on the mound for the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday and, believe it or not, they stood tall and limited the damage to four runs in a 6-4 win over the Detroit Tigers. Most impressively six relievers combined to strike out 14 Tigers. Veteran Taylor Rogers picked up the win and... Continue Reading »

The Twins scored early, the Chicago White Sox scored late to tie the game, and then both teams played two frames of nail-biting baseball in extra innings on Tuesday. In the bottom of the 10th inning, Twins’ veteran lefty reliever Taylor Rogers struck out a batter, served up a single and then induced a short... Continue Reading »

Despite the lack of clutch hitting and terrible defense, the bullpen remains the Twins’ biggest challenge, and again it wasn’t quite up to the task on Sunday as Minnesota was swept 7-4 by the Cincinnati Reds. What isn’t a problem for these Twins? Starting pitching. In the Reds series, Joe Ryan made a quality start,... Continue Reading »

After the outburst of runs on display during the Twins’ home opener, the offense has gone straight into hibernation and generated a grand total of two runs on six hits over the past 48 hours, including Sunday’s 3-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in extra innings. The game started out promisingly enough when slugger... Continue Reading »