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2023 – The Twins dropped the series opener to the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park, losing 7-6 and falling to 11-16 in one-run games this season. Sonny Gray (4-4) was the Twins starter and took the loss, allowing five runs on five hits, with four walks and five strikeouts in 5.2 innings of work. The offense tallied 12 hits, including five extra-base hits, for the club’s ninth loss this season while out-hitting an opponent. Max Kepler doubled, homered and drove in three runs while Edouard Julien went 3-for-4 and matched his single-game career high in hits. Joey Gallo also left the yard, hitting his sixth homer in his last 18 games. The Twins were 3-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base. Kepler had an adventure on the base paths when he hit what turned out to be a double in the fourth inning when he tripped on his bat. You can view it here on this short video. Kepler’s homer was the 142nd of his career, breaking a tie with Michael Cuddyer to take sole possession of 13th place on the Twins’ (1961-present) all-time list. Next up is Joe Mauer (12th, 143). Starter Logan Gilbert (8-5) got the win for Seattle. Nice crowd of 25,770. Box Score
2022 – The Twins limp into the All-Star break with a 11-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox at Target Field getting out-hit 16 to 1 and finish their six game homestand with a 2-4 record and a 50-44 record for the season. The Twins have won back-to-back games just twice in July and have not won more than three games in a row since they had a 6 game winning streak May18-24. The Twins are still in first place but now lead Cleveland by just 2 games and Chicago by 3 games. Chris Archer (2-4) was the Twins starter and loser going 4.2 innings and allowing 4 runs on 5 hits. The game was scoreless for four innings but then the White Sox found their stroke and the Twins sent seven different pitchers to the mound today. Reliever Joe Smith was rocked facing 7 hitters and allowing 6 runs on 5 hits, 3 of which were home runs in 1/3 of an inning. The Twins lone hit was an Alex Kirilloff single in the fifth inning. The All-Star break can’t come soon enough for Minnesota. Box Score
Off the field news: The Minnesota Twins have selected shortstop Brooks Lee from California Polytechnic State University with the eighth overall selection in the first round of the 2022 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. This year marks the fourth time in Twins history they have had the eighth overall selection in the MLB June Amateur Draft, also doing so in 1972 (RHP Dick Ruthven), 1984 (SS Jay Bell) and 1994 (2B Todd Walker). 2022 Twins draft tracker
2021 – With their DH rained out yesterday the Twins and Detroit Tigers play two in Comerica Park. In game one Charlie Barnes made his major league debut as the starter, allowing one run on four hits in 4.2 innings pitched. The only run scored in the first game was a Robbie Grossman leadoff homer. The Twins had just two hits off Tigers starter Jose Urena who pitched the first three innings and no hits off the others Tigers pitchers for the rest of the game. Former Tiger pitcher Beau Burrows made his Twins debut pitching 1.1 scoreless innings. Box Score
Kenta Maeda made the start in game two, allowing three runs on three hits in five innings pitched, with one walk and eight strikeouts but he ended up with a ND. The Twins trailed 3-1 after two innings but came back and tied the game and after seven innings it was 3-3. Remember, now days we play seven inning doubleheaders. The Twins scored on a wild pitch in the top of the eighth to take a 4-3 lead but the Tigers came back with two in the bottom of the inning for the 5-4 win and a DH sweep. The winning run scored when rookie shortstop Nick Gordon who is learning to play centerfield in the big leagues lost a ball in the twilight and let it drop in front of him. It has been that kind of a season for Minnesota. The losses made the Twins 1-7 in doubleheaders in 2021. Josh Donaldson was one of three Twins that had two hits in the game also hit his fourteenth long ball of the season. Box Score
2020 – The Minnesota Twins were scheduled to be in Texas to check out the Rangers new ballpark if all the games this season would not have been postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19. 99 Twins games missed so far. Twins Summer Camp 2020 remains underway at Target Field and CHS Field.
2019 – Twins suffer their first sweep of the season when they lose three games in a row for the first time this year. The Twins lose to the Mets by a score of 14-4, allowing 12 runs between innings 7-9. Martín Pérez was the starter but did not factor into the decision, allowing two runs (1 earned) on five hits in 6 innings pitched. Trevor May who relieved Perez took the loss (3-3) when he gave up a 3-run homer to the A’s Dominic Smith. May has struggled as of late giving up a game-winning home run to Cleveland on July 14. Rocco Baldelli resorted to bringing in infielder Ehire Adrianza to his first career pitching appearance in the ninth inning. Adrianza allowed three runs on five hits in his one inning on the mound. This was the 23rd time a position player has pitched for the Twins and 14th different player. The offense recorded eight hits, two from Mitch Garver, who hit his 15th home run and Nelson Cruz also hit a home run. The hot Oakland A’s are coming to town so the job gets no easier and the Cleveland Indians keep winning. Box Score
2018 – No game today but the All-Star game was played in Washington DC and the American league beat the National League in 10 innings by a 8-6 score in a game in which a record-breaking 10 home runs were hit. This is the second consecutive game the AL has won in the 10th inning. The only Twins player to make the All-Star team was pitcher Jose Berrios and he pitched one inning and allowed no runs on one walk. The AL now leads the series 44-43-2 over the NL. Box Score
2014 – No Game Today, All-Star break.
2013 – No game today, All-Star break.
2008 – No game today, scheduled day off.
2007 – The Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 1-0 at the Metrodome. Each team used three pitchers but no one gave up an earned run. Since 2001 this has occurred to the Twins just three times and two of the three occurrences were against the Detroit Tigers. The Twins only get three hits, two by Luis Castillo and Joe Mauer gets the other. The Tigers have five hits and three were by Curtis Granderson. The Tigers score the only run in the game off loser Matt Garza in the sixth inning when Brandon Inge reaches on an error and moves to second on a wild pitch. Twins nemesis Magglio Ordonez steps to the plate and singles in Inge. Both starters, Matt Garza and Nate Robertson went seven innings and each gave up three hits but Robertson took home the win and Garza was second best. Box Score
2002 – Twins outfielder Torii Hunter, angered after he is hit by a pitch, picks up the ball and fires it at Indians pitcher Danys Baez in the 5th inning of an 8 – 5 Twins win over the Cleveland Indians at Jacobs Field. Hunter’s throw hits the pitcher in the leg but he (Baez) stays in the game. Torii? He took an early shower per Ted Barrett. After the game, Baez goes into the Twins clubhouse to apologize. Jim Thome, Bill Selby and Ben Broussard homer for the Tribe, while David Ortiz and Dustan Mohr hit two-run homers for Minnesota. Luis Rivas hits one with the bases empty. Rick Reed wins but has to shoo away a seagull, which walks out to the mound: it’s the gull’s third straight appearance. Box Score.
1990 – The Twins pull a major league first–2 triple plays in the same game. Both are started on grounders to Gary Gaetti, who had started 5 of the Twins’ last 6 triple killings. Each team had five hits, four walks and the Red Sox had two errors and the Twins one but the Red Sox win 1-0 anyway at Fenway Park. That 0 for 9 with RISP will kill you. Scott Erickson pitched six good innings but not good enough. Box Score
1985 – No game today, All-Star break.
1981 – MLB on strike.
1979 – No game today. The 50th All-Star game was played for the first and only time in the Kingdome in Seattle and for the eighth time in a row the NL beat the AL, this time by a 7-6 score. Roy Smalley was the starting shortstop for the AL and the only Twins player invited to the game. Attendance was 58,905. Box Score
1972 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1969 – The Twins score six times in the home half of the first inning at the Met on just four hits and five walks and take a 6-1 lead. Jim Kaat get the win but it was a struggle all the way as he only lasts 5.2 innings. Gold Glove pitcher Jim Kaat commits three errors. The 30-year old right-hander still gets the victory when the Twins beat the White Sox, 8-5. Kaat goes on to win 16 Gold Gloves (including 12 in a row) in his 25 year career. Rich Reese was 3 for 4 with a double and two RBI. Box Score
1967 – Prior to hitting the road for a 16 game road trip that will take them to Kansas City, Anaheim, New York, Boston and Washington the Twins get just four hits and lose 2-0 to George Brunet and the California Angels. Twins starter Jim Merritt allowed both runs on 10 hits in eight innings and he struck out nine along the way. Box Score
1964 – Playing the Los Angeles Angels at Met Stadium and trailing 1-0, Twins catcher Earl Battey hits what appears to be a clean single to right field in the home half of the fifth inning but Angels outfielder Lou Clinton quickly fields the ball and fires to first baseman Joe Adcock to get the slow-footed Battey for out number 2. The Twins end up losing the game 1-0. Each team had five hits and Fred Newman bested Dick Stigman on this day. The only run in the game was a second inning home run by Angels third baseman Felix Torres off Stigman. Box Score.
Lou Clinton’s arm helps Angels shut out Twins by Ralph Caola
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1961 – No Game Today, scheduled day off.