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2023 – The Twins lost to the Tigers tonight at Comerica Park by a score of 3-2 and knotting the series at one apiece. Pablo López (3-5) was the starter and loser, allowing three runs on seven hits in 6 innings (100 pitches) pitched, with one walk and 10 strikeouts. It marked the fourth time in his career to reach double-digit strikeout totals and one short of his career high of 11. The offense recorded eight hits, including two from Carlos Correa, who hit his 11th home run of the season. The struggling Joey Gallo also added a home run, his 12th of the season and first since May 20 at Los Angeles-AL. 24,403 attended the 2 hour and 59 minute game. The Twins have homered 102 times this season, fourth most in the AL and seventh most in baseball. The Twins have 19 different players with a home run this season, the most in baseball. The Yankees and Brewers, both with 18. Starter Reese Olson (1-2) got the win for the Tigers. The Twins have placed right-handed pitcher José De León on the 15-day Injured List with a right flexor muscle strain, De León, sustained the injury while warming up. Are still in first place with a 39-39 record. Box Score
2022 – Bats turn ice cold against the visiting Colorado Rockies. The Twins lost to the Rockies at Target Field by a score of 1-0. It marked the second time in Twins history (1961-present) with a 1-0/0-1 score in back-to-back games; the other was September 13-15, 1971, the 13th being the second game of a doubleheader at California and the 15th at Milwaukee. Today Dylan Bundy (4-4) was the starter and loser, allowing one run on four hits in 6 innings pitched. The offense was shutout for the 10th time this season, tied with Seattle, Kansas City and Detroit for the most in baseball. Ryan Jeffers, Carlos Correa and Max Kepler had all three of the Twins hits. The game was over in just 2 hours and 17 minutes, the quickest 9 inning game at Target Field since June 7, 2018. The Twins had 17 ground outs against the two Colorado pitchers. Box Score
2021 – The Twins scored first against the Cleveland Indians at Target Field when Luis Arraez led off with a single, went to second when Trevor Larnach walked, and with two out was balked to third and scored on a wild pitch by Indians starter J.C. Mejia. That however; was it for the Twins scoring as they were outhit 8 to 6 and outscored 4-1. Former Twins Eddie Rosario had two RBI for the Indians. Jose Berrios started for Minnesota and pitched well enough to win going 6.1 innings and allowing 1 earned run on 4 hits but today he took a ND. Jorge Alcala (1-2) took the loss. Josh Donaldson and Jorge Polanco each had two hits. The Twins went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring
position and left six men on base. Box Score
2020 – MLB and the MLBPA reached agreement yesterday to play a 60 game season in 2020. See yesterday’s OTD in Twins history for more info. The Twins had been scheduled to be playing the Astros in Houston but nothing has changed, all the games this season have been postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19. 82 games missed so far.
2019 – No Game Today
2018 – The Twins take on the Rangers and Big Sexy Bartolo Colon at Target Field with Twins ace Jose Berrios on the mound. Berrios strikes out 12 Rangers as he throws 107 pitches in seven innings allowing just 2 walks and 3 hits. Trevor Hildenberger and Fernando Rodney complete the shutout in a 2-0 Twins victory. Eddie Rosario was 2 for 4 and continued making a strong case to be an All-Star as he got his average up to .320 and Robbie Grossman went 2 for 3 with a double, a run scored and a RBI. Rosario really has no chance to be a starter on the AL All-Star team based on current voting but he could and should be named to the team. Box Score
2016 – Another one of those Twins/Yankees games when Minnesota jumps out to an early lead and the Yankees come back to win, this time it was a 5-3 loss at Yankee Stadium III pushing the Twins record to 23-50. Three Twins errors did not help the cause. Box Score
The Minnesota Twins announced today that they have traded outfielder Oswaldo Arcia to the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for a player to be named later or cash. Arcia was designated for release or assignment on June 16. Originally signed by the Twins in 2007, Arcia played in parts of four seasons with the Twins hitting a career .240 (212-for-884) with 40 home runs and 120 RBI in 251 games.
2013 – No game today, scheduled day off.
2007 – The Twins beat the Florida Marlins 7-4 at Dolphin Stadium. The Twins only had seven hits but two of those belonged to Joe Mauer and they were both home runs. Mauer also scored twice and had 3 RBI. Johan Santana went six innings allowing 2 runs on 5 hits while striking out 8 and got the win but all he wanted to talk about was his triple which knocked in a run and he himself scored on a sac fly. Box Score
The Twins worked out a deal where they acquired Darnell McDonald from the Washington Nationals and allowed them to reacquire Rule 5 pick Levale Speigner.
1992 – The Twins win their fifth in a row when Kevin Tapani pitches a gem and shuts out the visiting Angels at the Metrodome 11-0. Tapani pitches a complete game shutout on 115 pitches while allowing just 2 hits with no walks while striking out ten and notches his seventh win of the season. Chuck Finley took the “L” for the Angels. Twins bats were alive for 17 hits and Chile Davis (5) hit the only home run. Brian Harper was 4 for 4 and Chuck Knoblauch was 3 for 4. Every starter in the Twins line-up had at least one hit. Box Score
1989 – Twins outfielder John Moses is asked to pitch at Fenway Park in an 11-2 loss to the Red Sox. John threw one scoreless inning giving up a walk but only faced 3 batters when the team turned a double play behind him. John is the fourth Twins position player to pitch and this is the fifth occurrence of a Twins position player pitching for the Twins. No real bright spots in the game for Minnesota as they had just four hits. Box Score
1984 – Second baseman Tim Teufel gives the Twins a 3-2 win over the White Sox with a three-run inside-the-park walk off home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth at the Metrodome. Ken Schrom gladly took the surprise win and Richard Dotson was the tough luck loser. Actually, it was a broken-bat blooper to right field that bounced over the head of Sox right fielder Harold Baines and rolled to the wall for a bizarre walk-off inside-the-park home run. The disgusted Dotson said “it is a joke to lose this way, Teufel didn’t hit the ball hard at all”. Now you know the rest of the story, one of those “Metrodome” moments. Box Score
Bloop, blast, or blot? Twins top White Sox on Tim Teufel’s game-ending inside-the-park home run by Stew Thornley
1982 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1981 – MLB on strike.
1977 – Ralph Garr of the White Sox homered off Minnesota’s Paul Thormodsgard in Minneapolis but due to a base-running blunder ended up with a single. It came in the third inning with two men on and no one out. Jim Essian, the runner on first, thought the ball might be caught by the Twins’ right fielder, Dan Ford, so he retreated towards first base. Garr was watching the flight of the ball and passed Essian after rounding the bag. He was credited with a single and two runs batted in. It is funny when it happens to the opposition but when it happens to your team, not so much. The Twins won the game 7-6 when Lyman Bostock hit a home run off Lerrin LaGrow to lead off the eighth inning at Met Stadium. Larry Hisle who was 3 for 4 with a home run and a double had 5 RBI and Craig Kusick also hit one out for the Twins. Tom Johnson who pitched the final 2.2 innings blew the save but pocketed the win. Box Score
1971 – No game today. Twins vs Oakland A’s game at Met Stadium rained out and rescheduled for September 3 as part of a DH.
1968 – In a one game series, the Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0 in County Stadium in Milwaukee in a game called after 5 innings due to rain. The reason the game was played in Milwaukee was that in 1968, Bud Selig, a former minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves who had been unable to stop the relocation of his team three years earlier, contracted with the Allyn brothers who owned the White Sox to host nine home games (one against each of the other American League clubs) at Milwaukee County Stadium as part of an attempt to attract an expansion franchise to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Twins scored the games only run in the fourth inning with two out when Bob Allison singled and stole second base, Frank Quilici walked and John Roseboro singled to score Allison. Dean Chance allowed just three hits in his five inning complete game. Box Score
1961 – Over 35,000 fans packed Met Stadium to catch the Twins play the New York Yankees and they saw shaky pitching and poor play in the field by the home town team and in the end the Yankees beat the Twins 10-7. Cuban rookie Bert Cueto started for the Twins and gives up two runs in the first but when he starts the second by giving up a home run to Skowron, another home run to Blanchard, and a double to Billy Gardner, Sam Mele has seen enough and pulls him for an early shower. The four Twins relievers that followed Cueto didn’t fare much better. Jim Lemon is finally starting to hit and hits two home runs, Harmon Killebrew hits one out too and Earl Battey chips in three hits including a double and a triple (his only one of the season) giving these three hitters 8 out of the Twins 9 hits in the game. The loss dropped Cueto to 0-2 on the season. Box Score
1955 – One year and one day after his major league debut and five days short of his 19th birthday Harmon Killebrew hits his first major league home run off Billy Hoeft at Griffith Stadium, but the Detroit Tigers beat the Washington Senators 18-7. Here is what dcbaseballhistory.com wrote about this event.
“The visiting Tigers pounce to a 13-0 lead in the top of the 5th, when 3B Harmon Killebrew boots a grounder. In the bottom of the frame, Killebrew would bat and work a 2-2 count against Detroit southpaw Billy Hoeft. Tigers catcher Frank House tells Killebrew that Hoeft’s next offering would be a fastball. Hoeft delivered that fastball and Killebrew rocketed the ball out of the park for his first major league home run. Killebrew would later say that, of all the home runs he hit at Griffith Stadium, the home run off Hoeft was the longest he ever hit in Griffith.”
Kind of interesting that Pedro Ramos, Jose Valdivielso, and Chuck Stobbs, all future Twins were in the line-up that day. Box Score
