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Yankees 8, Twins 3: No Joke(s)
With the Minnesota Twins hosting the New York Yankees tonight, it gives me the opportunity to use one of the few jokes I know (mine being a more dry, sardonic sense of humor): What’s the difference between a Yankees fans and a dentist? One roots for the Yanks—the other yanks for the roots. Make sure […]
Game 150: Yankees at Twins
First Pitch (CT): 6:40 PMTV: Twins.TVRadio: TIBN/830 WCCO/102.9 The Wolf /Audacy AppKnow Yo’ Foe: Pinstripe Alley Bad news: the Twins play the Yankees. Good news: most of these Twins are young enough to not even know the Twins are cursed against the Evil Empire. But back to bad news: back-to-back MVP Aaron Judge is back […]
Monday Morning Minnesota: The “It’s Dinamita Time!” Edition
The youth movement is continuing to progress, with Emmanuel “Dinamita” Rodriguez making his major league debut this past weekend, hitting a homer in his first big-league at-bat. Unfortunately for Rodriguez, he’s joining the team just as they are all but mathematically eliminated from making it to the playoffs. There’s a chance, but with the way […]
Guardians 9, Twins 2: Looking to 2027
Bad news: the Twins lost. Good news: it doesn’t really matter at this point. While Minnesota’s second half fade has been disappointing, 2026 was always supposed to be a transition season as the kids worked their way up to the MLB squad to make a push for 2027 and beyond. But for now, let’s look […]
Game 149: Guardians at Twins
First Chuck: 1:10 PM (new anthem each week!) The Tube: Twins.TV The Dial: Treasure Island Baseball Network Spies ‘R Us: Covering the Corner I will admit that my mind is not fully on baseball today. As a Skol-a-holic, I am eagerly anticipating the Minnesota Vikings opening up their 2026 campaign by hosting the rival Green […]
Twins 4, Guardians 3: Coming Out Party
That the article editor’s thumbnail selector offered two dozen images of a beaming Emmanuel Rodriguez, smiling as he jogged around the basepaths with his fist in the air, should tell you everything you need to know about the top prospect’s first major-league at-bat. A 2-1 fastball was swiftly deposited 420 into left-center field, tying the […]
Game 148: Guardians at Twins
First Pitch: 3:10 pm CDTTV: Twins.TVRadio: TIBN / WCCO 830 / The Wolf 102.9 FM / Audacy One of the only redeeming factors of this year’s annual August/September slide is that the youth movement — which in each of the last few seasons has mainly been represented by prospects falling out of relevance or young […]
Guardians 5, Twins 2: Here’s a new one, the bullpen loses
Well, that wasn’t worth staying up for, was it? The Twins walked the leadoff hitter four times, you’re not gonna win too many games that way. Inning-by-inning notes: 1: Taj Bradley decides that walking the very-fast Steven Kwan is a good idea. Hey, it works out; flyout, strikeout, and forcing Jo Adell into Chasing Pavements […]
Game 147: Guardians at Twins
Time: 7:10 Central Weather: High chance of sprinkles, 72° Opponent’s SB site: Covering the Corner TV: Twins TV. Radio: Alan Freed was born 105 years ago 25-year-old Guardians LHP Parker Messick made his MLB debut last August, and so far the results have been pretty spectacular. Even if they’re helped a little by a lucky […]
The last Twins game before the world wobbled
Twenty five years ago today, the world irrevocably changed. There was “the world before 9/11” and “the world after 9/11”. On September 10, 2001, the Minnesota Twins played their last game in that old world. Opening up what was to be a four-game series at Detroit’s year-old Comerica Park, the Twins sent Joe Mays to […]
A Glimpse of the Twins’ 2026 Draft Class
The Twins added 21 draft picks to the organization on July 11th and 12th, and we got a glimpse of 9 of them over the final month of the season. While draft year production in such a small sample size is largely unimportant, looking into the underlying numbers does help us evaluate each player’s tools. […]
Tigers 7, Twins 2: Comerican psycho
(same rules as the game thread — a three-verse hymn doubled in length) Patience has broken, chances are waning,Baseball has spoken: write the Twins out.Same old imploding, same old explaining,Same old eroding, nothing to tout. Right away Zebby gave up a dinger;Gloves that are webby couldn’t bring back.Loaded the bases ere a free swingerBrought in […]
Game 146: Twins at Tigers
First Pitch: 12:10 PMTV: Twins.TVRadio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM, Audacy AppKnow Yo’ Foe: Bless You Boys (Traditionally, “Blessed Assurance” has three verses. This cover has two, while the lyrics below account for six; feel free to replay the song as much or as little as you choose to account for them all.) […]
Twins 3, Tigers 2: Clemens’ homer launches Twins to victory
The Twins got on the board first, with a Josh Bell sac fly RBI. Not as many runs as they wanted considering they loaded the bases with 1 out, but a run is a run. On the pitching side, Dean Kremer held the Tigers scoreless until the 5th inning, when Kevin McGonigle hit a go-ahead […]
Game 145: Twins at Tigers
First Pitch: 5:40 PM CDT TV: Twins.TV Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM, Audacy App, LosTwins.com Know thine enemy: Bless You Boys The Twins may be nearly out of the playoff race, but I think it will still be fun to watch the rest of this season play out. Especially with rookies Kaelen […]
Monday Morning Minnesota: The “Slowly Drifting Away” Edition
I hope you all had a nice Labor Day holiday! The Twins did not, dropping the first game of a three-game series to the Tigers in Joe Ryan’s return from the injured list. In the previous week, the team went overall 3-3, taking a series 2-1 against the Tigers and then dropping a series 1-2 […]
Tigers 5, Twins 4: Rookies shine, vets struggle on Labor Day
It was a labor of a game on Labor Day. The Twins were resilient and had plenty of chances to score, but more bad luck with RISP, four double plays, and poor defensive execution led to another Twins loss. The same script as most of the second half. The Twins once again struck first in […]
Game 144: Twins at Tigers
First Pitch (CT): 2:10 PMTV: Twins.TVRadio: TIBN/830 WCCO/102.9 The Wolf /Audacy AppKnow Yo’ Foe: Bless You Boys The playoff hunt isn’t over quite yet, but we’re just about there. For the sixth time in the past five seasons, the Minnesota Twins went into the trade deadline with a decent shot to make the postseason, and […]
White Sox 10, Twins 1: Mostly flightless birds on Peacock
If the Minnesota Twins are finally featured on Sunday Night Baseball but the game is on a streaming service (Peacock) at an extremely odd (5:20 CST) time so very few people can watch it, did it actually happen? Philosophical cud-chewing aside, I can confirm—as a subscriber to the plumaged bird—that the Twins did indeed close […]
Game 143: Twins at White Sox
First Chuck: 5:20 PM (new anthem each week!) The Tube: NBC/Peacock The Dial: Treasure Island Baseball Network Spies ‘R Us: South Side Sox A few weeks ago, this contest was flexed into NBC’s Sunday Night Baseball—something that doesn’t often happen with matchups that aren’t LA/SF, BOS/NYY, or CHI/STL. Hey, at least someone somewhere said “we […]
Twins 6, White Sox 4: Y’all Come Back Now
The Twins may only have 68 wins on the year, but the ability to come back from deficits both early and late seems to have defined manager Derek Shelton’s early tenure with the team. Tonight, down 3-0 after the first inning, Minnesota put together a midgame rally to even the series one apiece, and deliver […]
Game 142: Twins at White Sox
First Pitch: 6:10 pm CDTTV: Twins.TVRadio: TIBN / WCCO 830 / The Wolf 102.9 FM / Audacy What we will call The Math is finally catching up with what we have been calling The Vibe. The Twins, with two September series against the Chicago White Sox loosely circled on the calendar, watched those games progress […]
White Sox 4, Twins 1: ChiSox treat Zebby Matthews to dong show
Zebby Matthews hadn’t given up any long balls in his last two starts, so he made up for it with three here. Still, not exactly a TERRIBLE outing for him… but it kinda was for the offense. Inning-by-inning notes: 1: Kody Clemens gets a hit / nothing special comes of it Miguel Vargas slugs a […]
Game 141: Twins at White Sox
Time: 6:40 Central Weather: Ever-increasing chance of thunderstorms, 85° Opponent’s SB site: South Side Sox TV: Twins TV. Radio: I’ll bet you can pick up games for three teams in Kenosha ChiSox starter Erick Fedde won Player of the Year in 2023, when he pitched for the NC Dinos in Changwon, Korea. Here are their […]
MLB Pennant Chase ‘26
Though the current ultra-humid atmospheric soup we call “air” belies this observation, autumn is right around the corner. Before embarking on Labor Day plans later today, let’s widen the aperture from the Minnesota Twins and look around Major League Baseball to see how each division is shaping up for the stretch run… AL Central AL […]
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