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2023 – The Twins beat the Yankees at Target Field by a score of 6-1 in front of a small crowd for a Yankee game of 16,242. Sonny Gray (3-0) was the starter and winner, pitching 7 shutout innings, with three hits allowed, two walks and eight strikeouts. Sonny lowered his ERA to 0.62, the third-lowest ERA through a pitcher’s first five games of the season in Twins/Senators history since 1913 (min. 20.0 IP), behind only Walter Johnson (0.24 ERA in 1913) and Eddie Matteson (0.55 ERA in 1918). The offense recorded 10 hits, three coming from Max Kepler. Joey Gallo hit his team-leading sixth home run. Box Score
2022 – The Twins win their fourth game in a row and sweep the week-end series with the visiting Chicago White Sox when they walk them off in 10 innings in a 6-4 Sunday afternoon win. Chris Archer started for the Twins but got a ND for his three innings (61 pitches) of work allowing 2 runs on 3 hits and 3 walks and 2 strikeouts. Josh Winder did another nice job out of the bullpen going 4 innings and allowing just one run on three hits. Joe Smith got his first win as a Twin. Chicago starter Lucas Giolito came off the IL to go 4 strong innings (76 pitches) while striking out 9 and left with a 2-1 lead. Each team had 9 hits and the Twins hitting star was Byron Buxton who went 2 for 5 with 2 home runs and 5 RBI after striking out in his first three AB’s. His second home run was the three-run walk-off blast in the tenth inning off White Sox closer Liam Hendriks. Max Kepler and Gio Urshela also had two hits each. The Twins now have a day off before the Detroit Tigers come to town. Box Score
2021 – The Twins lost to the Pirates by a score of 6-2 at Target Field, evening the series at one game apiece. Michael Pineda (1-1) was the starter and loser, allowing five runs (4 earned) on six hits in 4.1 innings pitched, snapping his eight game winning streak. Devin Smeltzer pitched 4.2 innings of relief with one unearned run allowed and was rewarded with a demotion to AAA St. Paul. Twins bats recorded just three hits, two from Jake Cave (2 doubles) and one from Willians Astudillo (single). The defense committed two errors, marking the Twins fourth game with multiple fielding miscues. The Twins have given up 14 unearned runs so far this season, more than any AL team. Trevor Cahill (1-2) was the winning pitcher, his last previous win against Minnesota was in 2009. Box Score
2020 – The Twins would have been home today opening a week-end series with the Boston Red Sox, but we all know the season thus far has been postponed due to COVID-19. Counting today it means we have missed 27 games so far.
2019 – The Minnesota Twins lost the rubber game to the Astros by a score of 7-1, dropping the three game series tow games to one. Call-up Kohl Stewart made his 2019 debut as the starter, allowing five runs on eight hits in 6.0 innings pitched and was dealt the loss. The Twins then sent him back to AAA Rochester. Justin Verlander (4-0) held the Twins to four hits over 8 innings. The only run he gave up was a Jorge Polanco home run. The 13-9 Twins completed their six-game road trip with a record of 4-2, going 3-0 in Baltimore and 1-2 in Houston and have a half game lead in the AL Central. Box Score
2018 – Another day in New York and another loss for the Twins making their current road trip record 0 and 5, this time the Yankees win 8-3. Jose Berrios was the starter and loser and team had a total of five hits with Eduardo Escobar getting three of them (two doubles) in a 3 for 3 effort. The Yankees committed four errors which matched their home run total for the game. Brian Dozier went 0-for-4 snapping his hitting streak at 24 games and marking his first game without a hit since September 21. Box Score
2016 – The Twins lose to the Washington Nationals 6-5 in 16 innings and strike out a team record 20 times. The Twins young studs Miguel Sano, Byron Buxton, and Eddie Rosario each struck out four times. The Twins had several opportunities to win this game but came up short each time. The game, played at Nationals Park lasted 5 hours and 56 minutes. Just a day earlier the Twins had struck out 18 times in a nine inning game. The Twins offense centered around Eduardo Nunez who was 4 for 7 with a stolen base and scored two runs while Brian Dozier was 2 for 6 with a run scored, 3 RBI and a dinger. Stephan Strasburg had 10 K’s for the Nats and Yusmeiro Petit added six more K’s for the Nats. Box Score
2013 – No game today, scheduled day off.
2006 – No game today, scheduled day off.
2005 – No game today, the Twins versus Tigers game at Comerica Park was snowed out and rescheduled as part of a doubleheader on July 23.
1996 – Greg Myers and Paul Molitor each had five RBI as the Minnesota Twins set a team record for runs and routed the Detroit Tigers 24-11 at Tiger Stadium. Myers was 5 for 6 with two doubles, five RBI plus he scored three times and Matt Lawton was 4 for 6 with 4 runs scored. The fourth inning was the only inning that the Twins failed to score a run. The Tigers went through seven pitchers and the Twins scored off of each one of them. It was the most runs against the Tigers in 84 years, matching the mark set in a 24-2 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics on May 18, 1912. Erik Bennett picked up the win in relief for the Twins. Box Score
1980 – No Twins game today, scheduled day off.
1978 – No game today. The Twins were in Oakland to play the A’s today but they were rained out so they will play two games tomorrow.
1974 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1972 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1969 – There were only 7,085 fans paying fans on hand on Thursday afternoon to witness the A’s beating the Twins 6-4 to split a four game series at two games each. But the fans saw more than they bargained for when they saw Reggie Jackson charge Twins rookie pitcher Dick Woodson and take him down. Jackson had hit two home runs off starter (and loser) Dave Boswell earlier and Woodson wanted to settle the score I guess. His first pitch to Jackson leading off the fifth with the Twins down 5-0 was high and tight behind Jackson and when Woodson’s next pitch went about four feet over the head of the batter, catcher and umpire, Jackson threw his bat down and charged Woodson knocking him down. The dugouts and bullpen’s emptied and it took about 3 or 4 minutes to calm everyone down. Jackson was eventually asked to leave the premise. The Twins came back with two runs in the bottom of the fifth and scored again in the sixth and seventh but came up short 6-4. Rod Carew had three hits and Tony Oliva hit a home run but the A’s prevailed and Blue Moon Odom got the win for Oakland. The loss dropped the Twins record to 8-6 and tied for first place in the AL West with the Royals. Box Score
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1967 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1965 – The Twins five-game winning streak is snapped when they get walked-off by Detroit at Tiger Stadium 7-4 after scoring twice themselves to take a 3-2 lead in the top of the ninth inning. The Tigers come back with four in the bottom of the ninth. The trouble starts when Jerry Fosnow (1-2) gives up a game tying home run to Willie Horton to lead off the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at 3-3. Fosnow then gets a groundout, gives up a walk, strikes out pitcher Larry Sherry (1-0) but walks Jerry Lumpe. That is it for Fosnow as the twins bring in Al Worthington and the Tigers counter with Gates Brown pinch-hitting for Don Wert (who was 3 for 3). Brown homers to deep right for his first HR of the season and the ballgame is history. The Tigers had three more errors today in 42 degree temps with just 3,596 fans looking on during the 3 hour and 5 minute game. Box Score
1961 – After a short three-game homestand the Twins hit the road. The Twins come from behind by scoring 3 in the top of the 9th to tie and 4 in the top of the 10th when Earl Battey hits a bases-clearing double and Reno Bertoia follows with another double to score Battey and the Twins go on to beat the KC A’s 10-6 at Municipal Stadium. The A’s starter in this game was Don Larsen. Box Score
1956 – Metropolitan Stadium was opened with a capacity of 18,200 as the new home of the AAA Minneapolis Millers, a farm club for the New York Giants.