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2024 – The Twins beat the Nationals in D.C. by a score of 10-0, snapping their season-long seven-game losing streak. The win marked Rocco Baldelli’s 400th career managerial victory. Joe Ryan (3-3) was the starter and winner, pitching 7 shutout innings, with three hits allowed, two walks and six strikeouts. The offense recorded 10 hits, four being home runs by Jose Miranda (4), Byron Buxton (2, 3) and Willi Castro (4)…for Buxton it marked his 11th career multi-homer game. The win was Minnesota’s largest margin of victory in a shutout since a 12-0 win at Cleveland on May 2. Box Score
2023 – The Twins lost to the Los Angeles Angels in Angel Stadium of Anaheim by a score of 4-2 in front of a crowd of 42,138, making them 1-6-1 in road series play this season and finished their six game road trip with a 2-4 mark. Pablo Lopez (2-3) was the Twins starter and loser, allowing two runs on five hits in 6+ innings, with three walks and nine strikeouts. The offense recorded seven hits, three from Willi Castro. Alex Kirilloff drove in a run with a solo home run in the eighth inning, his third home run this season. Chris Devenski (2-0) who faced one batter and struck him out for the Angels got the win. The Twins now head home to take on the San Francisco Giants. The Twins have gone 14-8 at Target Field nd 11-14 on the road. Willi Castro has hit safely in 10 consecutive starts, a streak that goes back to April 30. In that span, he is hitting .342 (13-for-38) with three doubles, one home run, four RBI and five stolen bases (1 caught). Aside from one pitching appearance, Castro has played six different defensive positions this season: left field, third base, shortstop, second base, center field, and right field. Box Score
2022 – The Twins beat the Royals at Kauffman Stadium by a score of 9-2, securing the series victory and making them 7-3-3 in series play. Joe Ryan (5-2) was the Twins starter and winner, allowing one run on five hits in 5.2 innings pitched with two walks and six strikeouts. Joe Smith pitched 1.1 scoreless inning of relief, giving him 13.2 innings pitched with no earned runs allowed to start his Twins career. The offense had nine hits and scored seven of their nine runs in the sixth inning-or-later. Luis Arraez had a productive day going 2-for-3 with two walks, two RBI and three runs scored. Carlos Correa also chipped in with two hits and two RBI. Box Score
2021 – The Twins began a three-game series against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field with a 10-0 victory recording their third shutout of the season as well as their largest margin of victory in 2021. It marked their largest margin of victory in a shutout since beating San Diego 16-0 on September 12, 2017. The Twins scored nine times in the fourth inning getting five hits and 5 walks as 13 batters came to the plate against three Cleveland pitchers. Randy Dobnak (1-3) made his return to the club, starting his first game of the season and pitching six shutout innings with three hits allowed. The offense recorded nine hits as Rob Refsnyder hit his first home run of the season and Miguel Sanó doubled twice. Box Score
2020 – The Mighty Whitey’s drop by at Target Field to take on the Twins in a four-game week-end set. But as we all know it did not happen. So far all games this season have been postponed/canceled due to COVID-19. We have now missed 51 games.
2019 – The Angels jump out to a quick lead when Mike Trout hits a home run in the first inning and the Halo’s add on two more runs in the second and lead the Twins 3-0 until the Twins bats come alive with 3 runs in the sixth, 4 runs in the seventh and Luis Arraez adds one more leading off the 8th inning with his first major league home run. The Twins ended up winning the game 8-3 and starter Michael Pineda who went six innings allowing 3 runs claimed his fourth win (4-3). Five Twins had two hits including the hot Marwin Gonzalez who was a DH for the first time in his career and he must have liked it because he hit his fifth home run of the season. This is the first time in franchise history the Twins (32-16) have had a 6.5 game division lead in May, the 2002 club reached a 7 game lead on June 24. Box Score
2018 – Ron Gardenhire returns to Target Field as manager of the Detroit Tigers but the Twins beat their former manager 4-2 when they score twice in the bottom of the eighth inning. Jose Berrios started for Minnesota and got the win with his three-hit eight inning effort in which he struck out nine Tigers. For the second day in a row Logan Morrison was up at the plate in the eighth inning with the bases loaded and he delivered again, this time he drew a walk to force in the lead run. Eddie Rosario then scored an insurance run on a short fly that was caught just beyond second base. Rosario also made a great catch against the wall in left field for the final out of the game. Rosario by Phil Miller. Box Score
2015 – No game today, scheduled day off.
2012 – No game today, scheduled day off.
2009 – The Twins are on a six game losing streak when they take on Bartolo Colon and the Chicago White Sox in the final game of a three game series at US Cellular Field. When the smoke clears, the Twins have put a serious pounding on the mighty whitey’s by out-scoring them 20-1 on 20 hits. It was the most runs scored by the Twins all season. Michael Cuddyer hits for the cycle getting 4 hits and 3 RBI’s while Joe Mauer gets 3 hits and 6 RBI’s, and Jose Morales, Jason Kubel and Matt Tolbert also chip in 3 hits apiece. Nick Blackburn picks up the easy win with 7 innings of scoreless baseball and Colon is the loser. Box Score
Twins’ lineup changes result in a 20-run explosion by Brent Heutmaker
2006 – It was almost 5 a.m. central time and the first hints of sunlight were starting to make for the Minnesota State Capitol when a new day dawned for Minnesota Twins baseball. A decade of fans’ frustration came to an end in the wee hours of Sunday morning, as both bodies of the Minnesota Legislature passed a bill that will mean a new home for the Twins. The deal between the team and Hennepin County, which calls for a sales tax extension to fund a 42,000-seat open-air facility in downtown Minneapolis, passed the Minnesota House on a bipartisan 71-61 vote late Saturday. After some last-minute deliberations, identical language passed the Minnesota Senate early Sunday morning on a 34-32 vote. “For all of our fans who have stayed with us, through all of the ups and downs of this debate, we are finally going to build a ballpark,” said a tired but elated Jerry Bell, the president of Twins Sports, Inc. “We’re again going to have baseball outdoors, on grass, the way the game was meant to be played.”
1999 – The Twins trade pitchers Rick Aguilera and Scott Downs to the Cubs to get pitchers Kyle Lohse and Jason Ryan.
1973 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1970 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1969 – The Twins lose to the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 on the road. Dave Boswell started for Minnesota but gave up four runs on 6 hits and 3 walks and could not get out of the fifth inning. Twins relievers kept Baltimore off the board during the rest of the game but the damage had been done. The Twins were 2 for 14 with RISP and left eight runners in scoring position. Boswell not running out a ground ball for the second time in a week did not escape Billy Martin’s attention. Jerry Crider a 27-year old RHP made his major league debut with Minnesota facing two batters and retiring them both. Box Score
1967 – The Twins putting a good whipping on the California Angels by beating them 12-3 at Anaheim Stadium. Cesar Tovar was the hitting star when he became the first Twins player to ever get four XBH in a game when he went four for six with two doubles and two home runs. Dave Boswell pitched a complete game and struck out 11 on the way to his first win of the season. Box Score
1961 – The attendance for the first ever Twins home double-header at the Met was 30,999 but they were not a happy crowd when they left Met Stadium after witnessing the Twins get shutout not once but twice losing to the Cleveland Indians 9-0 and 2-0. In the first game the Twins managed two hits and were shut out by rookie Wynn Hawkins and in the second game the Twins managed three hits and were shut out by Mudcat Grant. Indians second baseman Johnny Temple had 6 hits himself going 6 for 11 in the DH. Pedro Ramos lost game 1 and Don Lee lost game 2. The Twins got outhit on the day 28 to 5 and all five hits were singles. The only good thing that happened to the Twins was that Lenny Green had a hit in each game and stretched his hitting streak to 18 games. Something happened that day that you won’t see nowadays, Ramos started game 1 for Minnesota and lasted just 1.1 innings before being taken out of the game after allowing three runs on 6 hits, so what happens? Ramos relieves Twins game 2 starter Don Lee after he lasts just 1.2 innings and Ramos goes on to pitch 5.1 scoreless innings of relief allowing just three hits.
