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2024 – The Twins beat the Chicago White Sox last night at Guaranteed Rate Field by a score of 3-2. .Joe Ryan was the starter but did not factor into the decision, allowing two runs on six hits in 6 innings pitched, with one walk and three strikeouts. Brock Stewart (1.0 IP), Griffin Jax (1.0 IP, W) and Caleb Thielbar (1.0 IP, SV) combined for 3 scoreless innings of relief. The offense recorded just four hits after combining for 34 in their previous two. Carlos Santana hit his fourth home run of the season and fourth in his last five games. Max Kepler drove in Byron Buxton (double) in the top of the ninth inning for the game-winning run. Box Score
2023 – The Twins lost to the Royals os a Saturday afternoon at Target Field by a score of 3-2. It marked their fist loss this season when outhitting their opponents. Bailey Ober was the Twins starter but did not factor into the decision, allowing one run on four hits in 5.2 innings pitched. Jorge Lopez blew his first save of the season, allowing a run to score and tie the game in the eighth. Jhoan Duran was issued the loss, allowing a run in the ninth inning on three walks and a wild pitch. The offense recorded 10 hits as Byron Buxton hit his sixth home run of the season. The loss snapped a nine-game home winning streak for the Twins, as the Royals won in Minnesota for the first time since May 28, 2022. Aroldis Chapman (1-1) was the winning pitcher for KC. Box Score
2022 – The Rays came out swinging and put up a 4-spot on the visiting Twins in the first inning and added on from there. The Twins lost to the Tampa Bay Rays last night at Tropicana Field by a score of 6-1, snapping their seven-game winning streak and losing for the first time since April 20 at Kansas City. Dylan Bundy (3-1) was the starter and loser, allowing six runs on seven hits and two walks in 6 innings pitched, with a season-high seven strikeouts. Bundy entered the start having allowed just one run on 10 hits and one walk in 15.1 innings through three starts. Twins bats recorded just three hits, including two from Carlos Correa, who drove in the club’s only run with a fourth-inning single. The Twins did not draw a walk for the first time this season and first time since August 19, 2021 at New York Yankees. Box Score
2021 – No Twins game today, a scheduled day off.
2020 – The Twins would have been in LA to play the Dodgers but as we all know the season thus far has been postponed due to COVID-19. Counting today it means we have missed 31 games so far.
2019 – Heck of a pitchers duel between Twins starter Jake Odorizzi and Astros starter and future Hall of Famer Jason Verlander at Target Field and the good guys win a 1-0 game on a Ehire Adrianza home run, his first of the season. The homer was the team’s 50th, which improves a club-record for March and April. The win streak reaches four games but only 12,615 fans by tickets. Verlander goes six innings allowing 2 hits, 2 walks and 1 run and Odorizzi goes seven scoreless innings allowing 4 hits and 1 walk but is lifted after 86 pitches. Taylor Rogers and Blake Parker finish the shutout. Box Score
2018 – The visiting 6-21 Cincinnati Redlegs scored seven times in the first four innings beating up on Jose Berrios and putting another “L” on the Twins by an 8-2 score. Matt Magill who the Twins just picked up on waivers made his Twins debut going a scoreless 2.1 innings but he did give up 3 hits and a walk while striking out 2. The Twins did hit five doubles but were a dismal 2 for 12 with RISP. Box Score
2015 – The Twins and Tigers were knotted at 7-7 after 6 innings but Detroit broke through with one in the 8th and 2 in the 9th and beat Minnesota 10-7 at the Twins home ballpark. The Tigers hit four home runs, two by Miguel Cabrera and one apiece by J.D. Martinez and James McCann. Twins Oswaldo Arcia and Trevor Plouffe hit long balls for Minnesota and Joe Mauer was 3 for 5 but it was not enough. Twins reliever Casey Fien had a rough inning and was saddled with the defeat. Box Score
The Baltimore Orioles hosted the Chicago White Sox in Camden Yards at 2:06 PM, Wednesday, April 29, 2015 before an empty stadium, with an attendance of exactly zero fans. The doors to the ballpark were closed to the public because of riots in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody. The game broke the previous lowest attendance record: at a Major League game — 6 fans, when the National League Worcester Ruby Legs hosted the Troy Trojans on September 28, 1882 at the Agricultural County Fair Grounds. Baltimore won the game 8-2. Box Score
2014 – No game today. The Twins game against the LA Dodgers at Target Field was rained out and rescheduled as part of a DH tomorrow.
2004 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1999 – The Minnesota Supreme Court concluded that the sale and relocation of a baseball franchise is an integral part of the business of professional baseball and falls within the antitrust exemption. The Business of Baseball_ The Antitrust Exemption
1982 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1981 – The Twins and Seattle Mariners game at Met Stadium is called after 8 innings due to rain and is called a tie game with all stats going in the books but the game will be replayed from its entirety on August 14 under rules in place at the time. The Twins were down 7-4 going into the bottom of the eighth inning with reliever Dick Drago on the mound for the visitors. Gary Ward and Pete Mackanin lead off the Twins eighth with singles and Ron Jackson grounded out to third but the runners each moved up one base. Danny Goodwin pinch-hitting for Sal Butera followed with a double to left scoring Ward and Mackanin and the Twins suddenly found themselves down just one run with a runner in scoring position and Dave Engle coming to the plate. Engle tripled to left scoring Goodwin and Engle went for the win trying for an inside-the-park home run but was thrown out at the plate with a perfect relay for the second out of the inning. The game was delayed for rain at that point and after a 30 minute wait the game was called a tie. Jerry Koosman started for the Twins and Glen Abbott for the Mariners but neither lasted more than 2.2 innings. The Twins only home run of the game was hit by Rob Wilfong. The announced crowd on a cloudy wet day was just 2,171 and you have to wonder how many stayed to the end, only to witness a tie game. Mariners Maury Wills serving the second game of his two-game suspension for tampering with the size of the batters box was sitting behind the Twins dugout in full view of his acting manager and seemed to be managing the game from the stands based on what the Star Tribune writer Tom Briere reported. Box Score
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1976 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1975 – No game today, Twins versus Oakland A’s game at Met Stadium postponed due to wet grounds and rescheduled as part of a DH on June 17.
1969 – The Twins extended their win streak to four games when they slammed the Royals 9-1 and swept the two-game series. The Twins and Dick Woodson were down 1-0 when Harmon Killebrew hit a grand slam home run off Roger Nelson in the bottom of the third inning and the Twins never looked back. Woodson pitched the Twins third complete game in a row for his first major league win. Woodson allowed nine hits and threw 118 pitches, and according to Woodson, 90% were fastballs. Catcher John Roseboro was 4 for 4 and four other Twins hitters had 2 hits each. The 12-7 Twins now have a 1 1/2 game lead in the AL West. Box Score
1965 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1962 – The Twins tied a ML record with 6 solo home runs against the Indians in the 2nd game of a Minnesota double-header sweep. The Twins down the Indians 8-4 and 7-3. The home runs were hit by Lenny Green, Don Mincher, Zoilo Versalles, Bill Tuttle and Johnny Goryl hit two dingers. Don Lee got the win with a complete game for the Twins. Box Score game 2
In the first game at Cleveland Stadium the Twins scored four runs in the top of the 8th inning and held on for an 8-4 victory. Catcher Earl Battey led the hitters by going 3 for 4 with 2 runs scored and 2 runs batted in. Twins reliever Dick Stigman blew the save but got credit for the win. Box Score game 1
1961 – Jim Kaat’s third start of the young season doesn’t go well as he walks 6 batters and allows 4 hits including a home run in 4 1/3 innings and takes his first loss of the season. Kaat (1-1) has now walked 11 batters in his last two starts. The Angels jump out to a quick lead and hold on for a 4-1 win with a complete game effort from Ken McBride who allows just 5 hits and one run on Earl Battey’s second home run of the season. Battey had two of the Twins five hits. Harmon Killebrew who missed the last 10 games played for the first time in two weeks after suffering a pulled thigh muscle was 1 for 4. In what would be considered “odd scheduling” today, the second place Twins (9-5) fly home after this Saturday day game and start a 14 game homestand beginning with the visiting Chicago White Sox at Met Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Box Score
