The Twins showed a lot of fight in their series loss to the M’s, but asking them to come from behind in every game is a tall order. They pulled it off on Friday — their only win in the series — and came up short in the next two games, both back-to-back walk-off losses,... Continue Reading »

Royce Lewis hit a walk-off triple to win Game 1 of the Twins’ three-game series against the Kansas City Royals, and Kody Clemens capped it with one of the biggest hits in Twins history, a bases loaded walk-off grand slam to give the Twins an unbelievable 4-3 win after they were flat out dead for... Continue Reading »

After the worst loss of the season on Friday, an anemic, two-hit effort against the West Sacramento A’s (or whatever you want to call them) — a team that has allowed an AL-worst 582 runs — the Twins bounced back with a 2-0 shutout win of their own on Saturday. Although the Twins now have... Continue Reading »

The Twins are still in line to win their fifth straight series, but it should be a sweep because the Los Angeles Angels are 20 games under .500. If the Twins want to be contenders and not pretenders, then this is the kind of team they need to beat. They dropped Game 1 in a... 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 »

“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 »

The three-game series with the Colorado Rockies put the Twins’ spit and baling wire bullpen under the microscope, and the results are still a work in progress. The bullpen coughed up multiple runs on Friday and Saturday, but on Sunday Andrew Morris, Anthony Banda and Yoendrys Gomez — I think the Twins have found a... 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 »

Sunday was the anniversary of Byron Buxton’s major league debut for the Twins, and he celebrated — if one can say that — with three hits and a 5-4 win plus a series win over the St. Louis Cardinals. On June 14, 2015, Buck, the Twins’ second overall pick of the 2012 draft, joined the... Continue Reading »