BOSTON — Trevor Larnach and Matt Wallner both had RBI singles in the 12th inning and the Minnesota Twins beat the Boston Red Sox 4-2 on Friday night. Winning for just the sixth time in their last 17 games, the Twins moved a game ahead Detroit, which lost 8-1 to the Baltimore Orioles, for the American League’s third and final …
MINNEAPOLIS — Carlos Correa and Trevor Larnach hit consecutive home runs for Minnesota in the first inning off Seattle starter George Kirby, and the Twins hung on to beat the Mariners 6-3 and help Chris Paddack win his fourth straight start on Wednesday night. “There’s going to be very few opportunities that I get this year to be able to …
BALTIMORE — The Minnesota Twins sent Matt Wallner to Triple-A St. Paul for a reset on Tuesday. “Everything feels wrong when you’re not playing well,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. We simply just have to play better and it’s not — unfortunately, it’s not just one thing that we have to do.” The Twins got one thing right on Tuesday …
Dodgers’ Chris Taylor, left, reacts after scoring during the 12th inning against the Minnesota Twins at Dodger Stadium on Monday. What was left of a crowd of 49,749 in Chavez Ravine got to witness some middle-of-May high drama Monday night when Trayce Thompson, mired in an 0-for-30 slump, drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 12th inning to …
Among the many reasons the Twins overhauled their front office following the 2016 season, parting ways with longtime general manager Terry Ryan, was that an organization once known for scouting and development had spent a decade struggling to draft quality major leaguers. High school pitchers drafted in the top 10 have an abysmal success rate historically, which the Twins’ previous …
