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 »

Let’s give credit where credit is due: Twins ownership approved a plan to go out and get two relievers and a starting pitcher for the team’s stretch run, and now it’s up to Manager Derek Shelton and the players to deliver on that additional support. And right now that is not happening. The Twins lost... Continue Reading »

After only four runs were scored in the first two games, the Twins finally found their stroke again on Sunday to outlast the West Sacramento A’s (or whatever you want to call them) 11-8 to win the game and the series. The Twins scored those 11 runs on 13 hits, getting nine of them from... Continue Reading »

“Nothing comes easy for this Twins bullpen,” said Twins radio play-by-play man Kris Atteberry late in Monday’s Twins/Astros tilt in Houston. You can say that again. The Twins cruised into the eighth inning with a 5-1 lead, courtesy of three dingers and seven innings of strong starting pitching, and then the ball was handed off... 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 »

Al Worthington, a deeply religious man who found late-in-career success as a reliever with the Minnesota Twins in the 1960s, died Thursday, the team announced. He was 97. Worthington struggled as a starter, but converted to a closer and wound up saving 88 of his 111 career saves with the Twins during some of the... Continue Reading »

The power show rolled into Saturday for these Minnesota Twins as Byron Buxton, Royce Lewis and Luke Keaschall all went deep with a home run apiece. But even a run-scoring team like the Twins, which came into Saturday’s contest having scored the third-most runs in the American League, needs some decent pitching now and then.... Continue Reading »

A day after the Twins committed some embarrassing errors in an 8-6 loss to the Kansas City Royals, the team bounced back on Friday with some strong defensive play from the outfield and a quality start from Daniel Zebulon Matthews to edge the Royals, 5-3. It appeared that Zebby was on his way to an... Continue Reading »

The top dog in the American League Central used to run through Cleveland or Detroit, but now it just might be Chicago after the White Sox took three of four games from the Twins with relative ease, including Thursday’s lackluster game, 6-2. All of which has quickly reduced the memory of the Twins’ first sweep... Continue Reading »