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2023 – The Twins beat the Orioles in Baltimore by a score of 1-0, improving to 8-1-2 in their last 11 series vs. the O’s. It marked the Twins’ second 1-0 victory this season, the other coming on June 2 vs. Cleveland. It was the first time the Twins won a 1-0 ballgame in Baltimore since Game 2 of a doubleheader at Memorial Stadium on October 2, 1966. Bailey Ober (5-4) was the starter and winner, pitching 7 shutout innings (85 pitches) with two hits allowed, no walks and eight strikeouts. Ober allowed just one batter to get to a 3-ball count. Griffin Jax earned his 11th hold and Jhoan Duran earned his 12th save (14th chance). The offense scored their only run on a solo home run by Joey Gallo in the fourth inning. The Twins’ previous 1-0 win with the only difference being a home run was on June 23, 2022 vs. Cleveland, when Nick Gordon homered for Minnesota. Michael A. Taylor was caught stealing in the seventh inning, snapping the Twins’ club record of 29-consecutive successful stolen bases. It was their first caught stealing since May 13 vs. Chicago-NL. Box Score
2022 – The Twins beat the Orioles at Target Field by a score of 3-2 in walk-off fashion, their fourth walk-off victory of the season and third career walk-off home run for Byron Buxton. Nice to get a walk-off win after suffering two walk-off losses in a row in Cleveland. Joe Ryan was the starter but did not factor into the decision, allowing one run on two hits, with one walk and seven strikeouts. 90 strikeouts by Joe Ryan in his first 17 major league games sets a franchise record. The Twins offense recorded just five hits for the 22nd time (27.5%) this season. Arraez, who had two hits today leads the majors with 29 multi-hit games. Buxton hit his 21st home run of the season on a 2-1 pitch off Jorge López, with nobody out in the ninth inning. The Twins named Pete Maki as their new pitching coach replacing Wes Johnson who resigned a few days earlier to take a similar position with LSU. The Twins also promoted Colby Suggs to Bullpen coach to replace Maki. Box Score
2021 – The Twins battled back from a 3-0 deficit to take a 4-3 lead in the top of fifth with a four run inning but ended losing to the White Sox by a score of 8-5, suffering their third sweep of the season. José Berríos was the starter but did not factor into the decision, allowing four runs (3 earned) on 10 hits over five innings. It was a bad day all around for the Twins as they left ten men on base. But nobody had a bad a day as Miguel Sano who has struggled mightily this season. Sano struck out four times in 5 at bats and left 9 men on the bases. That is a bad day to be sure. Box Score
2020 – The Twins would be taking on the Tigers in Detroit today but then you remember that nothing has changed, all the games this season have been postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19. 87 games missed so far. MLB camps open for players to report to spring training version two. The Twins will be conducting theirs at Target Field and CHS Field the home of the St. Paul Saints, an independent minor league team. Due to Minnesota restrictions the Saints are scheduled to play with a number of other teams in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The first two days are pretty much set aside for COVID-19 testing and actual practices are scheduled to begin July 3.
MLB highlights unique features for 2020 season
2019 – No Game Today
2018 – The Twins lost to the Cubs in the series finale yesterday by a score of 11-10 and suffered their fourth sweep of the year. Lance Lynn was the starter and loser, allowing seven earned runs on five hits and three walks. The Twins found themselves down 8-1 after two innings on another hot day at Wrigley Field. The Twins recorded 16 hits, a season high for the team but even that would not be enough. Mitch Garver highlighted the Twins offense by going 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBI. Brian Dozier and Jake Cave also hit home runs as the Twins tried to fight back and got to within one run but could not get any more and lost 11-10, another one run loss. The Twins scored 25 runs over the three game series, the most in any series this season but lost all three games. The Twins now take a bus to Milwaukee and leave Chicago with one win in six games against the White Sox and Cubs. Box Score
2016 – Ian Desmond’s tenth-inning home run off Twins reliever Fernando Abad was the game-winner for the Rangers in their 3-2 triumph at Minnesota. Twins second baseman Brian Dozier extended his career-best hitting streak to 13 games by going 1-for-4 with a single, but it snapped his streak of 11 consecutive games with at least one extra-base hit, which tied the longest streak of that kind in American League history. The only other AL players with 11-game extra-base-hit streaks were Hank Greenberg (1935), Jesse Barfield (1985) and Alex Rodriguez (2006 to 2007). Box Score
1984 – Frank Viola blanks the 55-21 Tigers 9-0 at Tiger Stadium on 4 hits and a walk while striking out three. Kent Hrbek goes 3 for 5 with a double, home run and four RBI and shortstop Houston Jimenez goes 2 for 3 with a double, scores twice and knocks in two. Box Score
1981 – MLB on strike.
1976 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1973 – The Twins are taking on the California Angels at Anaheim Stadium with Jim Kaat starting for the Twins. Angels outfielder Frank Robinson leads off the second inning with a home run over the left field wall putting the Angels on the board 1-0. It was the 534th of Robinson’s big league career tying him with Jimmie Foxx for sixth on the all-time list. Who was to know at that point it would be the only hit the Angels would get all day? The Twins didn’t do much better getting just 4 hits off Bill Singer who also pitched a complete game. Outfielder Jim Holt, hitting ninth had 3 of the Twins 4 hits including a double and a run scored. Rod Carew had the other hit and it was good for 2 RBI. The game was over in just one hour and 40 minutes and the crown of 27,068 gave Kaat an ovation when the game ended. Box Score
1971 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1965 – No game today, scheduled day off. But no golfing today as the Twins flew to Denver to play their AAA Denver Bears team at Mile High Stadium. According to a Twins Exec the Denver team is talented enough to play in the majors. Maybe he was right as the Twins lost 9 to 5. The article below talks about some interesting Twins baseball transactions that no longer are done. There is also a blip about building a domed stadium in Atlanta for $18 with no A/C. Sound familiar?
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1961 – On a hot 90+ degree day in Kansas City Jim Kaat pitched his first nine inning complete game and was credited with the 9-3 win over the Kansas City A’s. It wasn’t as easy as the score seems to indicate as Kaat gave up 6 hits, 6 walks and 3 runs (just one earned) and was in almost constant trouble but he was able to strand 11 KC runners. It was a 2-2 game until Earl Battey homered in the fourth inning to make it a 3-2 Twins lead and then the Twins added two more in the sixth inning and Harmon Killebrew hit his second career grand slam in the ninth for a Twins 9-2 lead before Kaat (3-7) gave up a final run in the bottom of the ninth. Killebrew’s four hits and five RBI on day upped his count to 62 RBI. Earl Battey had 3 hits including his home run and a double. Box Score
Voting for the 1961 All-Star team starters was announced-
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1960 – A first-refusal option for chief minority stockholder H. Gabriel Murphy to buy the holdings of Washington owner Calvin Griffith expires. Murphy, who owned 40% of the ball club will lose 2 court decisions in efforts to keep Griffith from moving the Senators to Minnesota.