The New York Mets did a little rearranging to their rotation in advance of their two-game interleague series at Minnesota against the Twins, as left-hander Steven Matz will get the start Tuesday over an injured Zack Wheeler. Wheeler, who has been a popular name atop the trade-rumor list, was placed on the 10-day injured list […]
Indians Avoid Sweep
>>Indians Edge By Twins (Cleveland, OH) — Carlos Santana homered with two out in the seventh for the go-ahead run in the Indians’ 4-3 victory over the Twins in Cleveland. Brad Hand struck out the side in the ninth after the leadoff batter reached on an error to log his 24th save. Cleveland salvaged the […]
Twins Open Second Half in Cleveland
The Cleveland Indians have won 21 of their last 29 contests to shave six games off their sizable deficit in the American League Central and keep the heat on the first-place Minnesota Twins. The Indians vie to turn up the temperature even more on Friday when they carry a season-high six-game winning streak into the […]
American League takes another All-Star Game, dominated by pitching
For one night, the pitchers took back the power. Hours after an awesome Home Run Derby got everyone buzzing even louder about monster shots and juiced balls, only a couple flew out of Progressive Field in the All-Star Game. Instead, Justin Verlander blazed 97 mph heat from the start, Shane Bieber and Aroldis Chapman each […]
Twins say All-Star break comes at a good time
There is hardly a team that deserves or desires this All-Star week more than the Minnesota Twins, whose powerful performance over the first half of the season was one of the biggest surprises in baseball. The Twins could take the break as a symbolic reward for consecutive residence in first place in the American League […]
Polanco will hit ninth for A-L; starting pitchers set
Sitting next to Justin Verlander, American League manager Alex Cora cheekily declared ”we’ve got the opener” as he described his pitching plans. Touche! Houston’s ace has been among the players most critical of some teams’ practice of using relief pitchers as ersatz starters for an inning or two. Verlander will be making his second All-Star […]
Twins lose in extra innings to Rangers
RANGERS 4, TWINS 1 (11 innings) Rougned Odor’s three-run homer in the 11th inning gave the Rangers a win against the Twins. Odor’s 13th homer of the season, into the bullpens in left-center field, came off Minnesota left-hander Adalberto Mejia (0-2). Mejia walked Joey Gallo and Asdrubal Cabrera ahead of Odor’s one-out home run. Shawn […]
Twins host Texas at Target Field
Left-hander Martin Perez will make the first start of his career against the team he spent his first seven major league seasons with when the Minnesota Twins open a three-game series with the Texas Rangers on Friday night in Minneapolis. Perez (7-3, 4.15 ERA) signed as an undrafted free agent for $580,000 in 2007 with […]
Twins lose to Oakland after Semien’s slam
ATHLETICS 7, TWINS 2 Marcus Semien hit a grand slam in the eighth after his tying solo homer leading off the fifth, Chris Herrmann had a career-high four hits, and Oakland beat Minnesota for a winning series against the AL Central leaders. Semien sent the first pitch from Mike Morin over the wall in left-center […]
Twins-A’s set for matinee rubber match
Late All-Star Game addition Jose Berrios gets a final tune-up before the showcase performance when he tries to pitch the Minnesota Twins to a series win Thursday afternoon against the host Oakland Athletics. The Twins needed 12 innings Wednesday night to get even in the three-game set, using a Mitch Garver RBI single off A’s […]