Twins won AL Central at 36-24, but 37% of a season comes with asterisk.ĥ0. 2020: Season was delayed until late July by pandemic.
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**-Interest in the Twins in the early '80s was such that friend Mark Whicker, in Twin Cities from L.A., needled the waitstaff at a Lake Minnetonka restaurant by repeatedly asking for an update on a Twins score. *-Won 12 in a row in September with interim manager John Goryl, hiding that team's true ineptitude. And the rest of the very competitive D's:ģ8. Here's the answer to the original question in this column. You can't go last-to-first without being last.ģ7. Rabbit (Ray Miller) gets fired in September, Tom Kelly winds up with the job.ģ6. Ten-win improvement … and Ron Davis had his best year.ģ5. went from Hapless Twins (16-54) to Hopeful Twins (44-48) with all those rookies in that zany summer.ģ4. Tony O wins batting title as rookie next year, World Series.ģ3. Yes, I should have had Santana and not Bartolo Colon at top of my official Cy Young ballot. Carew traded Smalley did his best to save his Uncle Gene (Mauch) in first half.ģ1. Wild card Molitor Manager of the Year.Ģ9. We got the great Gene Mauch (my all-timer).Ģ8. Blyleven won 20, pitched 325 innings and struck out 258.Ģ7. 500 with that bunch if I wasn't imbibing then.Ģ6. Maybe I could've figured how Frank Quilici finished above. Jim Thome's home run to straightaway center in Chicago. Jim Kaat went 25-13, but it was the final year with only one Cy Young for both leagues and it went to Koufax.Ģ4. Paul Molitor and Chuck Knoblauch combined for 422 hits, which couldn't make up for Kirby Puckett waking up with a dot in front of his right eye late in spring training.Ģ3. A's were too good, as 3 million ticket buyers to Metrodome found out.Ģ2. Curve-balling Camilo Pascual leads AL in strikeouts - again.Ģ1.
Twins return from eight losing seasons and Tom Kelly walks.Ģ0. Excellent team - until A's Eric Fox hit that August home run and triggered an eight-year team slump.ġ9. The Ticket Buyout, new owner, crazy contenders - and blew 10-0 lead in an elimination game.ġ8. Santana's first Cy Young, Twins' last playoff win.ġ6.
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We were in the bigs! Then Pistol Pete Ramos shuts out Yankees in Twins' first-ever game and we started making World Series plans.ġ5. Out of nowhere, more home runs (307) than any team in MLB history.ġ3. Cy Young (Johan Santana), MVP (Justin Morneau), The Piranhas and Francisco Liriano's elbow. Target Field welcomed with exciting team and 3,223,640 tickets sold.ġ0. KO Punch, Killebrew & Oliva - and Cy for Jim Perry.Ĩ. Year 2 in our beloved erector set, and Twins chase mighty Yankees.Ħ. Lost Game 7 of Series to all-time great Sandy Koufax.Ĥ. So, here it is, based on level of joie de vivre for Twins fans at the end of their 62 seasons.ġ. Why don't you wrap up the season by rating all of them?'' Which gave me another thought: "You were at their first-ever home game with your father Richard in April 1961.
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Watching the Twins finale on TV on Wednesday, I had this thought: "With the September collapse, where does this 2022 club rate in Twins history?''
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