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2023 – The Twins beat the Yankees at Target Field by a score of 6-2. Joe Ryan (5-0) was the starter and winner, becoming the first five game winner in baseball. Ryan allowed two runs (1 earned) on seven hits in 7 innings pitched, with no walks and seven strikeouts. .Jorge López and Jhoan Duran each pitched one scoreless inning of relief. The offense recorded eight hits, two from both Byron Buxton
and Jorge Polanco. Buxton hit his fourth home run while Trevor Larnach hit his third homer. Ryan has won each of his first five starts this season, becoming the fifth pitcher in Twins/Senators history (1901-present) to go 5-0 in his first five starts of the season, joining: Sad Sam Jones (5-0 from April 27-May 21-1, 1930), Bill McAfee (5-0 from August 19-2-September 4, 1932), Connie Marrero (5-0 from April 17-May 17, 1951) and Jerry Koosman (5-0 from April 10-May 1, 1979). The Twins win secured the season series for Minnesota, their first over the Yankees since going 4-2 in 2001. Attendance 19,201. Box Score
2022 – No game today, scheduled day off. Twins stats as of today.
2021 – The Twins lost to the Pirates by a score of 6-2, making them 2-4 in series play this season, 0-3 at Target Field. The loss was the 11th in the teams last 13 games. Matt Shoemaker (1-2) was the starter and loser, allowing two runs on six hits in 5.1 innings pitched. The Pirates held a 2-1 lead until the Twins bullpen allowed three runs in the seventh inning and one more in the eighth inning. The Twins had just seven hits with two coming from Luis Arraez who also drew a walk. Nelson Cruz hit his seventh home run of the season with an eighth-inning solo shot. The 7-13 Twins have ended their short three game homestand and now begin a short three game trip to Cleveland. Box Score
2020 – The Twins would have been home today playing 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 28 games so far.
2019 – No Game Today
2018 – The Twins lost their sixth game in a row when they fell to the New York Yankees 7-4. Yankee shortstop Didi Gregorius hit a home run in his fifth straight game against the Twins. Lance Lynn was the starter and loser. Miguel Sano hit a home run and the Twins got 10 hits but it was not enough. This was only the third time in 19 games this season that the Twins have had double-digit hits in a game. Max Kepler went 3 for 5 with a runs scored and a RBI. The Twins designated Rule 5 pick-up Tyler Kinley for assignment after the game and ended up returning him to the Marlins. Box Score
2012 – Twins first baseman Chris Parmelee was hit in the batting helmet in the sixth inning by a 93 MPH fastball thrown by Red Sox hurler Justin Thomas. The ball hit the bill of Parmelee’s helmet, deflected down and struck Parmelee above his eye. A couple of inches lower, Parmelee continues to think, and he could have been struck directly in his eye. The ball bounced all the way back to the Red Sox dugout at Target Field. Parmelee was down for about a minute but rose to his feet and walked off the field. He was examined by doctors, who tested him for a concussion but luckily that was not the case. The Twins were down 7-1 after five innings and bounced back with five runs in the bottom of the sixth but the Red Sox bullpen shut down the Twins after that and the Twins ended up losing the game 7-6. Second baseman Alexi Casilla was 3 for 4 with a run scored, an RBI, a stolen base and was hit by a pitch.
2011 – No game today, scheduled day off.
2005 – The Minnesota Twins and Hennepin County announce they have agreed on a proposal to fund and construct a new ballpark in downtown Minneapolis.
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On the field, in a make-up game that was rained out on April 23 at Comerica Park the Tigers wrestled away a Twins 4-3 lead with two runs in the seventh and another in the eighth and held on for a 6-4 win. Twins reliever Juan Rincon who could not hold the lead that Brad Radke left him, took the loss. Nick Punto had two hits. Box Score
1980 – Making his first appearance in Minnesota since his fight with a marshmallow salesman in the fall of 1979, A’s manager Billy Martin has to be restrained by umpires from attacking a fan who was pelting him with marshmallows during the Twins’ 10-3 victory at the Met. The Twins jumped to a quick 5-0 lead and rolled on to a 10-3 win over the Martin led A’s in front of only 2,664 fans. Jose Morales and Rick Sofield each hit home runs in support of Twins starter Jerry Koosman who picked up the win. Box Score
1977 – No game today, scheduled day off. In some terrible off the field news Twins pitchers Mike Pazik and Don Carrithers were seriously injured in an automobile accident when their van collided with a car going the wrong way on an exit ramp in Bloomington, MN. Pazik suffered two broken bones in each leg and was out for the season. Carrithers, who was driving, suffered a compound fracture of his right knee, a partial rupture of the quadriceps tendon near his knee and a fractured right wrist and ended missing three months of the 1977 season.
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1975 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1970 – The Twins are playing the Tigers at the Met and take a 3-1 lead into the ninth only to have the Tigers score twice to tie the game. The Twins came back with one of their own, an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth and the Twins walk-off the Tigers 4-3. Tony Oliva and Rich Reese had homered earlier but it was Harmon Killebrew‘s single that scored the winner in the end. Stan Williams who blew the save scored the win.
Exciting you say? But you should have seen what transpired in the top of the seventh with the Twins ahead 2-1. Jim Kaat is on the mound for the Twins and retires Elliot Maddox and Cesar Gutierrez on ground outs to the shortstop for the first two outs and then appeared to have struck out pitcher Earl Wilson, but, Twins catcher Paul Ratliff did not catch Kaat’s pitch in the air and this is where things really got weird. Ratliff got the ball and rolled it back to the mound and headed for the dugout. Tiger third base coach Grover Resinger knew his rules and he told Wilson to head to first base. None of the Twins seemed to notice Wilson as he rounded first and headed for second base and at this point coach Resinger was in the middle of the infield urging Wilson on. By now Twins left fielder Brant Alyea figured out what was happening and ran after the ball but had trouble picking it up and Wilson was still running and was now rounding third base and heading for home. By this time Twins shortstop Leo Cardenas had run over to cover home plate and Alyea threw him the ball. Wilson was a big guy and all this running was beginning to take its toll and when he saw Cardenas with the ball he turned and started back to third base but pulled a hamstring and just collapsed to the ground before getting back to the third base bag. Cardenas threw the ball back to Alyea who then tagged Wilson out as he lay in the base path just short of third base and the Twins were out of the inning unscathed. The scoring you ask? A strikeout, an error on Ratliff, and the out was recorded as LF-SS-LF (7-6-7). To top it all off the television crew had all gone to the commercial after the apparent strikeout and none of this was recorded on video. Box Score
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Earl Wilson nearly achieves a ‘Little League home run’ after striking out by Chad Moody
1969 – The White Sox jumped on Twins starter Tommy Hall for four runs in the bottom of the first with the big blow being a 2 run home run by the Sox Buddy Bradford that landed on the left field roof that is 75 feet above the stands that are 365 feet from home plate at White Sox Park. Dick Woodson relieved Hall and pitched for the fourth straight day going five scoreless innings and the Twins finally took a 5-4 lead with three runs in the top of the eighth. Ron Perranoski who had not given up a run all year (in 16 2/3 innings) was brought in with one on and one out in the bottom of the ninth and gave up two straight singles allowing the tying run to score. A passed ball allowed the runners to move up to second and third and so an IW was ordered to fill the bases. Carlos May then walked off the Twins with a single to left and the Twins lost the game 6-5 and the White Sox also took over first place. Tony Oliva and Leo Cardenas each had three hits in the game and Oliva’s hits extended his hitting streak to 13 games. White Sox starter Tommy John went seven innings allowing four run but received a ND for his days work. Box Score
1965 – No Twins game today as the Twins versus the Tigers in Detroit is trained out and rescheduled as part of a June 11 doubleheader. The Twins are off to Cleveland.
1964 – The Twins lose to the Detroit Tigers 5-2 at Met Stadium in what was the first ever nationally televised Twins game from Met Stadium. Dave Wickersham was credited with the win. The team had played on national TV 19 times before this game but all the games were on the road. Their first nationally televised game was on June 10, 1961. Strangely enough, Camilo Pascual started and lost both of these games. The game was on NBC and the announcers were Bob Wolff and Joe Garagiola. Box Score
1961 – A tough day in Municipal Stadium in Kansas City as the A’s pound seven Twins pitchers in a 20-2 Twins defeat. The 20 runs was the most runs the Twins gave up all season. This game is only the eleventh game in Twins history but it remains as the biggest losing margin in a Minnesota Twins game. Twins reliever Fred Bruckbauer made his first and only big league appearance in this game when he came in to pitch in the top of the fourth inning and gave up a double, a single, a walk and a double before getting pulled. Bruckbauer was charged with 3 earned runs and since he never again pitched in the big leagues his ERA stands at infinity. Bruckbauer is the first native Minnesotan to make his major league debut wearing the Minnesota Twins colors. Twins starter Ted Sadowski gave up 7 earned runs in 2.2 innings and reliever Paul Giel gave up 7 earned in 1/3 of an inning. Norm Bass went the distance for the A’s giving up 7 hits and 9 walks but still got the “W”. Box Score
A tale of three pitchers in Athletics’ lopsided 20-2 win over Twins by Stew Thornley
