Minnesota Twins Events

1965 Oct 6
to 1965 Oct 14
 1965 World Series
The 1965 World Series featured the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the American League champion Minnesota Twins, who had won their first pennant since 1933 when the t...
1968 May 8 Catfish Hunter Pitches a Perfect Game
James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter (April 8, 1946 - September 9, 1999), was a Major League right-handed starting pitcher between 1965 and 1979. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hal...
1987 Oct 17
to 1987 Oct 25
 1987 World Series
The 1987 World Series, in which the Minnesota Twins defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, was the first World Series in which the home team won all seven games. This also happened in 1991 and...
1991 Oct 19
to 1991 Oct 27
 1991 World Series
The 1991 World Series was played between the Minnesota Twins (95–67) of the American League and the Atlanta Braves (94–68) of the National League between October 19 and October 27, 1991. ...
1998 May 17 David Wells Pitches a Perfect Game
On May 17 Wells dragged his 5.23 ERA out to the Yankee Stadium mound to face the Minnesota Twins. He certainly started off stronger than on that depressing day against the Rangers, lockin...
2004 Jun 22 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 9-2
Red Sox manager Terry Francona may have been raked over the coals in Red Sox Nation for resting three starters Saturday and Manny Ramirez Sunday in San Francisco, both games resulting in ...
2004 Jun 23 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-2
Last May, when Pokey Reese tore the ulnar collateral ligament of his left thumb while playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he missed the rest of the season. Last night, after rolling on...
2004 Jun 24 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
The polls, the sentiment, the common sense all favor Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein saving his valued prospects to acquire pitching. Getting Jamie Moyer from Seattle, for example...
2004 Jul 30 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 8-2
2004 Jul 31 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-4
2004 Aug 1 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
MINNEAPOLIS -- The idea was to upgrade the team's woeful defense. So the last thing the Red Sox needed the day after they traded away franchise shortstop Nomar Garciaparra was to endure t...
2005 Jul 29 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 8-5
Yes, Sox management appreciates Bill Mueller as Johnny Damon does -- ''I want my son to play like Billy Mueller," Damon said last night -- but the Red Sox' recent willingness to include M...
2005 Jul 30 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 6-2
With trade talks lurching uncertainly between the Red Sox and New York Mets last night, another odd chapter to the Manny Ramirez saga played out yesterday, when Red Sox manager Terry Fran...
2005 Jul 31 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 4-3
The rumbling in the stands began as soon as he stood up in the Red Sox dugout, a bat in his hand, and was a full-throttled, foot-stomping roar by the time he emerged from the dugout late ...
2005 Aug 5 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 12-0
MINNEAPOLIS -- Bronson Arroyo's intentions? Good. His logic? Misguided. His execution? Well, that conjured memories of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach John McKay, who, upon being asked ...
2005 Aug 6 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
MINNEAPOLIS -- The deciding run was unearned, and for the second consecutive night, so was Minnesota's win. ''I can think of some other bad ways to lose a game," said Mike Timlin. But,...
2005 Aug 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 11-7
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Iron Range, the charming lakes (there are actually 11,842, not 10,000 as the slogan suggests), the ''Minnesota nice" quality to the locals. Terry Francona seemed to hav...
2006 Jun 13 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-2
MINNEAPOLIS -- Last night's game, on paper, had the look of a pitching duel that comes along once or twice a season: Johan Santana (6-4, 3.16 ERA) vs. Curt Schilling (9-2, 3.81), the guy ...
2006 Jun 14 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-1
MINNEAPOLIS -- In the bottom of the eighth inning last night, the Red Sox behind as this game would end, 8-1, two fans hopped the fence, one of whom decided to run around the bases, begin...
2006 Jun 15 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-3
MINNEAPOLIS -- The second level of the Metrodome in right and right-center is curtained off, in an attempt to make this cavernous building feel more intimate. The canvas that blankets tho...
2006 Sep 19 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-3
Twins general manager Terry Ryan was chewing on a cheeseburger in the press dining lounge before last night's 7-3 win over the Red Sox when a scribe asked about a subject that probably ru...
2006 Sep 20 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-2
Just a single raised fist, rounding first base, accompanied David Ortiz on his historic run. Just that fist, up for no more than a second, before he made his solitary way around second, a...
2006 Sep 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 6-0
Do mythical creatures exist? David Ortiz pondered as much yesterday afternoon as he sat in front of a laptop in the Red Sox clubhouse, reading an e-mail from a friend who had attached a p...
2007 Apr 2 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-4
Owning Santana Minnesota Twins left-hander Johan Santana may be baseball's best pitcher. But no one has told Orioles left fielder Jay Gibbons, who sometimes sits out against tough left...
2007 Apr 3 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 3-2
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Orioles waited 186 days to see how Daniel Cabrera would respond to the best start of his young career. And while he wasn't nearly as dominant last night as he was when ...
2007 Apr 4 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-2
MINNEAPOLIS -- The ugliness was not confined to Jaret Wright's 2 1/3 innings, a brutal outing in which he recorded just two more outs than walks and put the Orioles into too big of a hole...
2007 May 4 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 2-0
MINNEAPOLIS -- Those who believe in the paranormal might call it the Nomar Effect. Since trading deadline day in July 2004, when Nomar Garciaparra was told in the visitors' clubhouse h...
2007 May 5 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-1
MINNEAPOLIS -- The hue and cry for Alex Cora to play more may soon be renewed, but this time it will have nothing to do with the rookie at second base, Dustin Pedroia. Instead, the cla...
2007 May 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 4-3
MINNEAPOLIS -- Curt Schilling looked calm, sitting in the dugout after having been removed after his command unraveled in the seventh inning. The game was left in the hands of Hideki Okaj...
2007 Aug 23 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 5-2
As much as their 27-run loss to the Texas Rangers a day earlier was discussed on national television, making the Orioles the butt of scores of jokes for at least one day, the players insi...
2007 Aug 24 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-4
It all happened so fast. In a span of three pitches by Jeremy Guthrie in the seventh inning last night, the Orioles' seemingly comfortable four-run lead was whittled to an extremely uncom...
2007 Aug 25 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 8-1
The Orioles got pretty much what they expected last night from the major league debut of Radhames Liz. There were moments of great promise, such as the hard slider that he struck out Mich...
2007 Aug 26 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 11-3
Minnesota Twins reliever Carmen Cali threw one pitch yesterday and requested time so a divot in the mound could be repaired. All it took was a little dirt, a shovel and a few extra minute...
2007 Sep 27 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-4
It wasn't for a lack of trying. While Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter were given the night off by the Yankees, 20-game winner Josh Beckett threw 99 pitches for the Red Sox, David Ortiz rea...
2007 Sep 28 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 5-2
Theo Epstein trusted that the Red Sox would hold up their end of a championship bargain, but thought it was a good idea to send a text message to Kevin Millar, exhorting the former Sox pa...
2007 Sep 29 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 6-4
J.D. Drew said he wasn't being antisocial when he missed the splash party that followed the Red Sox winning the American League East title Friday night. His wife, Sheigh, is eight months ...
2007 Sep 30 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-2
With Curt Schilling scratched from yesterday's scheduled outing - perhaps in advance of a Game 2 start against the Angels - it was up to Julian Tavarez to close out the final game of the ...
2008 May 9 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-6
MINNEAPOLIS --Struggling Mike Lamb lifted the Minnesota Twins past the Boston Red Sox 7-6 on Friday night with a two-run single in the ninth inning against Jonathan Papelbon, who blew his...
2008 May 10 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 5-2
MINNEAPOLIS --Has Daisuke Matsuzaka's mythical gyroball finally made an appearance stateside? The Japanese right-hander had a pitch slip out of his hand in the third inning and land ab...
2008 May 11 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-8
MINNEAPOLIS—So much for small ball. Craig Monroe went 2-for-4 with two of light-hitting Minnesota's three home runs and four RBIs, and the Twins hung on for a 9-8 victory over the Bost...
2008 May 12 Minnesota Twins defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-3
MINNEAPOLIS—Livan Hernandez won again, Craig Monroe contributed another big hit, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 on Monday night to win the four-game series. Manny ...
2008 Jun 1 Minnesota Twins defeat New York Yankees, 5-1
MINNEAPOLIS - In desperate need of an arm after Saturday night's 12-inning victory, the Yankees called up righthander Scott Patterson from Triple-A Scranton for Sunday's game. Patterso...
2008 Jun 3 Baltimore Orioles defeat Minnesota Twins, 5-3
A recap of the Orioles' 5-3 win over the Twins last night: A three-way tie Kevin Millar's second-inning homer against Minnesota's Kevin Slowey didn't just put the Orioles up 1-0, it...
2008 Jun 4 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-5
A recap of the Orioles' 7-5 loss to the Twins last night: Back-to-back homers With two outs in the first inning, Melvin Mora hit a full-count pitch from Minnesota starter Glen Perki...
2008 Jun 5 Baltimore Orioles defeat Minnesota Twins, 3-2
MINNEAPOLIS -- Orioles manager Dave Trembley has acknowledged repeatedly that he was once Garrett Olson's biggest critic. He believed the young left-hander nibbled around the plate too mu...
2008 Jul 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 1-0
With chants of "Manny! Manny!" ringing in his ears, Manny Ramírez erased visions of his three-pitch strikeout against Mariano Rivera Sunday night with an RBI single to right field in the ...
2008 Jul 8 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 6-5
BOSTON—After a difficult series against Boston's rival, Manny Ramirez has responded with a game-winning hit and a game-tying home run on back-to-back nights against the Minnesota Twins. ...
2008 Jul 9 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 18-5
Over the press box public address system came the words, "That's a triple play. For now." But not for long. With Jason Varitek waving his arms wildly at first base to indicate that center...
2008 Sep 13 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 12-2
With another rocky effort in the first game of yesterday's doubleheader, Orioles right-hander Daniel Cabrera is leading pitching's dubious Triple Crown. Cabrera walked five in 5 1/3 in...
2008 Sep 13 Minnesota Twins defeat Baltimore Orioles, 12-6
First-inning woes: : In both games of the doubleheader, the Orioles allowed runs in the first inning, something they have done 67 times this season and in 19 of their past 30 games. The O...