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Devin Smeltzer's strong start lifts Twins to 8-2 victory over Tigers in Game 1

DETROIT — Devin Smeltzer pitched 6 2⁄3 strong innings and Max Kepler had three hits and drove in three runs as the Twins won the opener of a doubleheader by beating the Tigers 8-2 on Tuesday at Comerica Park.

Tribune News Service · May 31, 2022

Jim Souhan: Twins’ anti-vaxxers putting team in bind

MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Falvey, the Twins' president of baseball operations, said he won't pass judgment on his unvaccinated players.

Tribune News Service · May 31, 2022

Baseball by the numbers: Inefficient defense stings White Sox

The Cubs aren’t much better in DefEff, and both are below the major-league average.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 31, 2022

Twins break open game with four-run eighth, stomp Royals, 10-7

MINNEAPOLIS — In this season of warning-track fly balls and frustrated sluggers, two home runs are usually enough to win. The Twins relied on that Friday.

Tribune News Service · May 28, 2022

Checking in on the superstar shortstops the Yankees passed on during the offseason

NEW YORK — It was not long ago that the baseball world cast an eye of confused suspicion on the Yankees.

Tribune News Service · May 27, 2022

Mike Trout, Baseball’s Best Hitter (Again)

Matt Martell is off today to jump into a much-deserved long weekend for Memorial Day. Emma Baccellieri has you covered in his stead. There is a line that former ESPN writer Sam Miller used to say, in podcasts and in conversation, about when you could trust small-sample-size noise had disappeared…

Sports Illustrated · May 27, 2022

Chip Scoggins: 100-mph club ‘a life goal’ among baseball’s exclusive places

MINNEAPOLIS — Trevor Megill threw the hardest pitch of his major league career in his Twins debut on Sunday. The official reading on the radar gun: 99.8 mph.

Tribune News Service · May 27, 2022

Whit Merrifield, Bobby Witt Jr. deliver late clutch hits as Royals rally to beat Twins

MINNEAPOLIS — Bobby Witt Jr.’s two-out, two-strike RBI double in the eighth put the Kansas City Royals ahead for the first time and capped a three-run inning.

Tribune News Service · May 27, 2022

Jeimer Candelario's late blast pushes Tigers past Twins in extras

MINNEAPOLIS — Harold Castro hit a pair of solo home runs Wednesday, the second a 423-foot blast into the upper tank in right-center field that tied the game at 2 in the top of the eighth inning.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2022

Twins place starter Joe Ryan on COVID injured list

MINNEAPOLIS — Twins pitcher Joe Ryan was placed on the COVID injured list before Wednesday's game against the Tigers at Target Field.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2022