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April 2006 Archives
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- Twins 0, Tigers 6
- Inter-division games are the most important games you can play. The Twins have now played a series against every time in the Central Division. Here’s how they’ve gone. vs. Cleveland:...
- Twins 1, Tigers 18
- The score tells the story of this game. It was bad, really bad. Game Notes Carlos Silva: 2 2/3 IP, 9 ER. Ummm, I guess he didn’t walk anyone. That’s good, right? Even Liriano struggled...
- Twins 0, Tigers 9
- This was an ugly game all around for the Twins. Brad Radke again struggled early givig up 6 runs in the first 3 innings of the game. Radke was pulled in the 3rd and Matt Guerrier finished out the...
- Twins 7, Royals 3
- The Twins had a good day on Thursday against the Royals both offensively and defensively. Lefties Morneau and Mauer and also Batista and Castro had the day off today. Mark Redman started for the...
- Stadium Updates
- Be sure to check out Greet Machine for the best updates on how the stadium bill is doing.
- Twins 1, Royals 3
- You know that optimistic feeling all baseball fans have at the beginning of the season? Well, that’s starting to wear off. It doesn’t look like the Twins have improved their offense as...
- Twins 2, Royals 1
- The Twins ended their 4 game skid by sneaking past the Royals in a wet Tuesday night game in Kansas City. The Win brought the Twins record to 8-11 and became the 8th come-from-behind win of the season...
- Player of the Week: Week 3
- This past week was similar to week one – a record of 1-5 and not many good things to talk about. Let’s jump right into the discussion of the players this week and cross our fingers that...
- Twins 3, White Sox 7
- It was the same story in this game as it’s been though far too many games this year. The Twins got a terrible start from Carlos Silva and weren’t able to get nearly enough runs on the...
- Twins 2, White Sox 9
- Making the lineup card for Saturday night’s game wasn’t an easy task for Ron Gardenhire. Shannon Stewart is still away with his wife who just gave birth to their first child. Luis Castillo...
- Twins 1, White Sox 7
- This game was a lot closer than the final score indicated. As predicted, the Mark Buehrle and Johan Santana matchup turned out to be a pitchers duel–until the 8th inning. Santana pitched five...
- Angels 6, Twins 4
- The Twins dropped the final game of the 3 game set with the Angles and also last the series 2 game to 1. Jesse Crain took the loss for the Twins giving up 2 runs in the 8th inning. Crain pitched...
- Angels 10, Twins 12
- The Angels gave the Twins every opportunity to win this game, yet it still took 10 innings for the Twins to finally squeeze out a victory in the high scoring affair. Mistakes by the Angels included 2...
- Angels 8, Twins 2
- The Twins took another loss and fell below .500 in their opening game against the Angels. Once again, Ron Gardenhire seemed to let his starter go a little longer than he should’ve. Carlos Silva...
- White, the DH, and the Cleanup
- First, I want to say that Rondell White is a quality hitter and his batting average won’t stay at .085 for long. That being said, Rondell White should not be the cleanup hitter on this team. The...
- Player of the Week: Week 2
- Last week I whined about how difficult it was to pick a player of the week, since the team as a whole had played so poorly. I hoped that this week’s decision would be difficult for a different...
- Yankees 9, Twins 3
- After dropping the first two games of the series, the Yankees set out to remind the Twins just who they were, and that’s exactly what they did on Sunday at the Metrodome. Brad Radke gave up 3...
- Yankees 5, Twins 6
- The Twins played their most exciting game of the season Saturday night against the Yankees, pulling off a victory in the bottom of the 9th inning with a 2-run hit by Justin Morneau. The Twins jumped...
- Yankees 1, Twins 5
- Scott Baker, the Twins fifth starter, gave the Twins their best start of the season, against arguably their best opponent. Baker went 7 innings giving up only 3 hits, 1 walk and 1 run to a potent...
- Athletics 2, Twins 8
- The Twins are riding high after completing the sweep against Oakland today at the Metrodome. Similar to their other 3 victories this season, the Twins fell behind early as Kyle Lohse struggled in the...
- Resilient is Their Middle Name
- The Twins starters haven’t been real effective yet this season, but it’s been great to see the resiliency of the Minnesota bats. The Twins have trailed in all three of their victories this...
- Athletics 5, Twins 6
- I wasn’t able to catch much of this game, so my notes will be a little limited on this one. I’ll be watching the archived game on MLB.tv before I go to bed tonight. Please leave some...
- Tour the Nation
- Twins Nation is now a little more than 3 weeks old and traffic to the site is starting to grow, so I want to take a moment to explain all the areas the site has to offer. The Blog We’ve got...
- Athletics 6, Twins 7
- The Athletics came into the dome riding the momentum of series victories over the Yankees and Mariners, but the 4-run lead they established early in the game wasn’t enough to hold off the Twins....
- Player of the Week: Week 1
- The season is underway, so it’s time to start what will become a weekly series at Twins Nation. Monday is often an off day for the Twins, so we’ll take advantage of it to announce who we...
- Where's Our Great Pitching?
- After the first week of baseball our offense has at time looked better, and at other times looked like last year’s offense. The cold weather in Clevelend probably played a big part in the...
- Twins 2, Indians 3
- Live commentary was provided for this game. Pregame The Twins will look to Johan Santana to get them back on track and avoid the sweep. The weather in Cleveland is a few degrees warmer than...
- Twins 0, Indians 3
- The only things colder than the weather in Cleveland were the bats of the Twins. Jason Johnson, a mediocre pitcher, dominated the Twins for 7 innings. Johnson gave up 4 hits and one walk in the...
- Twins 6, Indians 11
- The Twins pitching struggles continued today against the Cleveland Indians. Every time the Twins put some runs on the board, Cleveland would answer in the bottom of the inning with runs of their...
- On Bartlett's Situation
- Via Aaron Gleeman, a Rochester perspective on Bartlett's unexpected demotion to AAA.
- Cleveland Indians Series Preview
- Game 1 Recap Game 2 Recap Game 3 Commentary & Recap The Twins dropped the final game of the series with the Blue Jays. The game recap can be seen in the scoreboard area. Hopefully the Twins...
- Twins 3, Blue Jays 6
- The Twins dropped the series after losing the 3rd game to the Blue Jays by a score of 6 to 3. Mauer, Kubel and Castro had the day off in preparation for tomorrow’s day game in Cleveland (and...
- Game 2: That's More Like It
- Twins Win! Only Tony Batista could be stopped tonight. The first few days of this season have seen a lot of high scoring games, so clearly a lot of pitchers haven’t worked off their rust yet....
- Twins 13, Blue Jays 4
- The Blue Jays didn’t have a pitcher that could shut down the Twins’ bats tonight. After falling behind 4-0 early in the game, the Twins batters came back with 13 unanswered runs. Brad...
- Stadium Bill Moving Forward
- Good News: The Twins stadium bill was approved, today, by the state and local government committee. Next stop: the tax committee.
- Opener Recap
- I posted some live commentary and a game recap over in the scoreboard section, so check that out for details of the game. From time-to-time over the course of the season I’ll keep a running live...
- Twins 3, Blue Jays 6
- The Twins couldn’t muster the offense needed against Roy Halladay and B.J. Ryan in the season opener. Santana clearly wasn’t in midseason form as he seemed to hit a wall in the 6th inning....
- A Tale of Two Santanas
- The last two seasons Johan Santana has been arguably the most dominant pitcher in baseball. He has more strikeouts than any pitcher over the past two seasons and has finished each season with an ERA...
- Twins 3, Red Wings 15
- Exhibition Game. The Twins ended thier spring in Florida with an exhibition game against their AAA affiliate Rochester Red Wings. The Twins will fly to Toronto where they’ll have a Monday...
- Hopeful Look at Twins
- The New York Times give an AL Central Outlook which includes the Twins winning the division.
- Winning it in April
- In Baseball, you’d rather be playing well in the month of September than in April, so you have some momentum going into the playoffs. However, when it comes to making the playoffs, April games...
- Introducing the 2006 Team
- Spring training is, for the most part, wrapped up and just about every position on the team has been decided. That means it’s time to introduce the 2006 Twins, at least as they will be on...
- Twins 8, Pirates 2
- Spring Training Game. The Twins won their final spring game (except for tomorrow’s intrasquad game) to extend their winning streak to 6 games. Kyle Lohse finished his solid spring with a win....
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