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September 2006 Archives
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- Thank you, Royals
- The Twins lost their second straight game to the White Sox as they attempted to move ahead of the Tigers in the AL Central. Fortunately, the Tigers have also lost the first two games of their series...
- Twins move into tie with Tigers
- The Twins won Thursday night’s series finale in 10 innings by a score of 2-1. The big story of the night was Brad Radke’s encouraging start. He needed just 57 pitches to get through five...
- Silva roughed up by KC
- Carlos Silva’s ineffectiveness on Wednesday night cost the Twins another loss against baseball’s worst team. In Silva’s final start of the season he saw he ERA jump back over the...
- The Official Unofficial Piranhas Shirt
- A new Minnesota Piranhas t-shirt makes its debut just in time for the Twins/Sox Series. T-shirts can be purchased at MinnesotaPiranhas.com.
- Clear your calendar
- Key Dates: Oct. 3 – Playoffs begin. Oct. 10 – League championship series begin. Oct. 21 – World Series begins. I’m not getting ahead of myself, am I?...
- ESPN SportsNation MVP Voting
- Justin Morneau has become the favorite of SportsNation.
- It's official: Twins playoff bound
- The Twins headed into Monday night’s game against the Royals with a magic number of 2. The Cleveland Indians pounded the Chicago White Sox to reduce the magic number to 1. The Twins-Royals...
- Got Piranhas? T-shirt
- This Twins fan created a new piranhas logo shirt to highlight the hot new catch phrase of the 2006 Minnesota Twins. GO TWINS!
- Hunter helping late playoff push
- Scott Baker was coming off a pretty good start at Cleveland, but didn’t fair so well on Saturday in Baltimore. Baker didn’t walk anyone, but allowed 7 hits in 3 2/3 innings. He...
- Hunter's the Hero
- For a little less than an hour the Twins felt what it was like to lead the Central division. While the Tiger-White Sox game was in progress the Twins and Tigers had equal records of 90-61. The Tigers...
- 5 hits for Morneau
- Morneau’s power numbers have dropped off over the past month (just 1 in September), but he’s still hitting the ball. Morneau entered the game batting .354 in September and went on to a 5-5...
- Metrodome Memories
- A new Twins blog opened it’s doors on August 6th and unfortunately I didn’t discover it until today. The site is metrodome-memories.com. What’s the site about? Steve from Metrodome...
- What's most surprising?
- What’s most surprising about the Twins being in the playoff hunt after their slumpy start? Is it how well the Twins have played or is it how poorly Chicago and Detroit have played? On June...
- Playoffs seem likely
- With a four gamea lead over the White Sox and just 13 games remaining in the season, the Twins playoff hopes are as good as they’ve been all year. The Star Tribune accurately reported That if...
- Week 25 Power Rankings (ESPN)
- The Twins find themselves at a season high 3 in the power rankings. Detroit continued its fall to 8.
- Twins take rare loss with Santana starting
- Santana was on the mound for the Twins on Friday night, and for many that’s all you need to know to realize what the outcome of the game will be. When Santana pitches, it’s usually a win,...
- Twins heating up as season winds down
- The Twins offense had been in a two-week funk that left them playing about .500 ball. They finally seemed to have gotten the offense going again. They’ve scored 9+ runs in three of the past four...
- Santana tough to beat after August
- Elias confirms what most Twins fans already know.
- Ace makes it a race
- Johan Santana is always a great pitcher, but in big games he somehow manages to step it up a notch. He was virtually unhittable on Sunday against the Tigers as he led the Twins to a series victory...
- Boof comes up big
- Boof is starting to look more and more like a good option for the bottom half of the Twins rotation in 2007 (and the remainder of 2006). He came up with a big start in a big game against the Tigers....
- Tigers win the opener
- The Twins trailed Thursday night’s series opener against Detroit right from the start. Scott Baker gave up a homerun to the first batter he faced, Curtis Granderson. The Tiger lead only grew as...
- Padding the lead
- The Twins, with some help from Boston, extended their lead over the Chicago White Sox in the AL wild car race. Detroit’s loss also moved them to within 4 games of the Central leading Tigers. The...
- Back in the wild card lead
- Despite having a less than stellar holiday weekend, the Twins have found themselves back in the wild card lead with a 1/2 game margin over the struggling White Sox. After losing the series to New...
- Twins suffer Bronx blowout
- It couldn’t have been a good sign for the Twins that Bert Blyleven was cursing before the game even got underway. In a way, the Twins television booth has resembled what’s gone on with the...
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