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2023 – The Twins scored five runs in the final three innings to defeat the Reds by a score of 5-3 at Great American Ball Park, securing the series victory and marking Minnesota’s 39th comeback win of the season. Bailey Ober started and took a no-decision, allowing two runs on three hits in 5 innings pitched, with three walks and three strikeouts. Jhoan Duran (3-6) got the win and Griffin Jax (3) got the Save. The offense recorded nine hits, including two hits from Willi Castro and Christian Vázquez. Six of the Twins’ nine hits came off the Cincinnati bullpen after Reds starter Hunter Greene struck out a career-high 14 batters in 7 innings pitched. Castro hit his ninth home run of the season, hitting homers in back-to-back games for the third time in his career. Jorge Polanco’s two-run, tie-breaking single in the top of the ninth proved to be the game-winning hit. The Twins improved to 5-61 when trailing after eight innings. The Twins magic number is one. The Twins are a season-high nine games over .500, reaching their high-water mark of 2023 following their win. The Twins now head home after going 5-2 on their seven-game roadtrip. Box Score
2022 – The Twins who seem just to be playing out the season lost to the Royals 5-4 at Kauffman Stadium, suffering their 25th one-run loss (20-25) of the season. The loss snapped a seven-game winning streak over Kansas City and marked their first loss since a 7-3 defeat on May 28 at Target Field. Dylan Bundy was the starter but did not factor into the decision, allowing four runs on four hits in 4.2 innings pitched. Michael Fulmer (5-6) was issued the loss, allowing a run in the seventh inning on a Salvador Perez double. The offense recorded 12 hits, three from both Carlos Correa and Nick Gordon, who doubled twice, giving him 26 on the season. But that 3 for 13 with RISP did them in. Box Score
2021 – No game today, scheduled day off. But, according to many Twins fans, myself included, the Twins and manager Rocco Baldelli made a huge blunder by optioning Drew Maggi back to St. Paul without allowing Maggi to appear in a big league game. Maggi who has played in the minors for 11 seasons and over a 1,000 games the last three years with the Twins, deserved a shot to play in the majors after being called up. There were numerous chances to get Maggi into a game in Toronto but the Twins shot themselves in the foot again. Disappointing and just plain wrong, the Twins showed no class with a move like this.
2020 – Twins are playing on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball for the first time since August 22, 2010 when they hosted the Los Angeles Angels, winning by a score of 4-0. Scott Baker was the starter and winner, pitching seven shutout innings with just five hits allowed. Tonight; Jose Berrios (5-3) was the starter and winner for Minnesota, throwing 6 scoreless innings on four hits, a walk and four strikeouts. The bullpen combination of Trevor May, Taylor Rogers and Sergio Romo held Chicago hitless through the final 3 innings to round out the game and roadtrip with a 4-0 win. The Twins outhit the Cubs 10 to 4 and pinned the loss Cy Young contender Yu Darvish (7-3). Max Kepler, hitting leadoff went 3-for-5 and finished a triple shy of the cycle after a first-inning single, a seventh-inning home run and a ninth-inning double. The home run was Kepler’s first since going yard on August 26. Kepler became the third European-born player to reach 100 career home runs in MLB history, joining Bobby Thomson (264) and Didi Gregorius (119). The Twins finished 3-4 on their recent roadtrip and finished with a poor 12-14 (.414) record on the road this season. The Twins will have a day off before taking on the Detroit Tigers. The 33-22 Twins are two games out of the division lead with just five games to play. Box score
2019 – The Twins beat the Royals last night by a score of 4-3 for win number 95 and maintain their 4 game lead on the Indians. Randy Dobnak (1-1) was the starter and winner, the first victory of his major league career, allowing one run on three hits in 5.1 innings pitched. Trevor May earned his second save of the season with three strikeouts on three batters faced in the ninth inning. The offense records just five hits but four go for extra bases. Twins are now 22-11 in one-run games, a .667 win %, best in the AL. Box Score
2018 – No Game Today
2015 – Twins starter Tyler Duffey pitches shutout ball for 7 innings and allows just 3 hits to claim the Twins 8-1 win at Target Field over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Glen Perkins allowed the lone Angels run when he allowed Jett Bandy to hit a home run in the ninth with two out. Eddie Rosario, Joe Mauer and Torii Hunter all hit home runs for the home town team. Box Score
Playing alone at Cresta Verde Golf Course in Corona, Calif. on the sunny Sunday of Sept. 20, Rod Carew hit his drive off the first tee precisely where he drove so many of his 3,053 hits with the Minnesota Twins and California Angels: “Right down the middle,” he says. It was 11 days before his 70th birthday. Stepping off that tee box, Carew suddenly felt his chest burn and his hands go clammy. Retreating to the clubhouse, he lay on the floor and asked a woman there to call a paramedic. “The next thing I saw was a man with paddles in his hands,” Carew says. “He was yelling, ‘We’re losing him! We can’t lose him!’ Then I blacked out.” When he woke in the emergency room at Riverside Community Hospital—to more paddles and more shouts of “Don’t lose him!”—Carew closed his eyes again. “I decided to go to sleep,” he says softly. “And I didn’t know if I’d wake up.” He had suffered a massive heart attack—“the kind they call the widow-maker,” says his wife, Rhonda. Carew recovered, then had an artificial heart for a period of time before getting a heart transplant.
Rod Carew opens up about his private life and his near-death experience
2013 – It was a “laugher” at O.co Coliseum as the Oakland A’s took the Twins behind the wood-shed and beat them 11-0 as 40-year-old Bartolo Colon went six innings and improved his record to 17-6. Twins starter Andrew Albers was the unlucky victim giving up 8 runs on 8 hits in 4.2 innings. At least Albers got his work in with 96 pitches. Josh Willingham and Eduardo Escobar each had two hits out of the Twins total of six. Box Score
Twins Minor League right-hander Dallas Gallant has been suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for an amphetamine in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Gallant, currently on the roster of Class A Cedar Rapids, will begin serving his suspension at the start of the 2014 season.
Twins Gallant suspended 50 Games
2007 – No game today, scheduled day off.
2004 – The Twins clinch the AL Central Division title (it marked the Twins third consecutive division championship) when they beat the White Sox 8-2 in Chicago. They won their 88th game in their 150th game of the season. Carlos Silva allows two runs in seven innings and picks up his 13th win of the season with home run help from Koskie, Hunter, Blanco, and Rivas. Rivas’s homer was his 10th of the season and he became the Twins ninth player to have ten or more home runs this season. Blanco hit his career high tenth home run earlier in the game. Box Score
1981 – Rookie third baseman Gary Gaetti make his major league debut one to remember when he hits a home run in his first ML at bat off knuckleballer Charlie Hough and the Texas Rangers in Texas. Gaetti becomes the third Twins player to homer in his first at bat in a ML game. The Rangers get even however, when they score twice on three hits off Twins closer Doug Corbett and walk-off Minnesota 4 to 3 making Hough a winner. Hough pitched a complete game allowing but five hits and Rob Wilfong had two of them. Twins starter Brad Havens allowed two runs in six innings. Box Score
1980 – No Game Today, the game against the White Sox at the Met was rained out and played as part of a DH tomorrow.
1979 – Originally scheduled day off but the Twins played the visiting Yankees in a game that was rained out on August 26.
1976 – No game today, scheduled day off.
1969 – The 90-60 first place Twins host the visiting Seattle Pilots at Met Stadium and send out Jim Perry to start. The Pilots counter with Gene Brabender. The Pilots get first blood when John Kennedy hits a 2-run home run off Perry in the top of the second. Brabender keeps Minnesota scoreless until the seventh when he runs into trouble when with one out, Ted Uhlaender triples and Rod Carew follows with a RBI single. Tony Oliva follows with a single and Brabender’s day is done with 2 runs allowed on 9 hits. Diego Segui strikes out Killebrew but Rich Reese follows with a game tying single and all of a sudden it is a 2-2 game. With Segui still on the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning Uhlaender strikes out but Rod Carew singles with Tony O on deck. Oliva then doubled over the shortstops head and the Twins were walk-off winners 3-2 and Perry (20-6) who had gone the distance wins game number 20 and 12,797 Twins fans go home happy. Box Score
Jim Perry’s 20th victory pushes Twins nearer pennant by Doug Skipper
1967 – The Twins beat the Kansas City A’s for the third game in a row when Twins starter Dean Chance goes the distance striking out 13 and notches his 19th win of the season in a 6-2 win that lasts just 1 hour and 58 minutes at the Met. Tony Oliva and Bob Allison each mash a home run. In a scheduling oddity, the Twins just played the A’s for 2 games at KC and now play them for 2 games in Minnesota. Box Score
1965 – Just 537 fans paid to watch the Kansas City A’s Jim “Catfish” Hunter beat Jim “Mudcat” Grant 8-2 at Met Stadium in a makeup game in a cool 52 degree drizzle. Don Mincher hits two home runs and accounts for two of the four Twins hits. Frank Quilici gets the other two hits and one of them is a double. It is the smallest paid crowd to watch the Minnesota Twins play at home. B-R box score shows attendance of 547 but Twins media guide states 537. Mudcat was going for his 20th win but got his 6th loss instead. Box Score
1963 – No game Today
1961 – The Twins versus Washington Senators game at Griffith Stadium was rained out and rescheduled to be played as part of a DH at Met Stadium when the Senators are in town over the week-end on September 23.