The Twins and the Red Sox started the weekend tied for 1st place and played against each other in Boston for the final three games of the season.

In 2008, the Twins finished the regular season tied with the White Sox on top of the AL Central, forcing a one-game playoff in Chicago to determine the division champion.

In 2001, Hunter led the Twins in at bats, home runs and outfield assists ( with 14 – tied for second best in the league ), and was second in RBI and total bases, leading the Twins to their first winning season since 1992.

Because they ended the day tied with the Detroit Tigers for first place in the American League Central, a one-game playoff between the teams was played there on October 6, 2009, with the Twins beating the Tigers 6-5 in 12 innings.

The Tigers and Twins tied an American League record for total players used with 42.

Through 2011, Carew had the best all-time career batting average of all Twins (. 334 ), the second best on-base percentage (. 393 ; tied with Buddy Myer ), was fourth in intentional walks ( 99 ), and was fifth in hits ( 2, 085 ) and stolen bases ( 271 ; while second in caught stealing, at 123 ).

On September 20, Ortiz tied Jimmie Foxx ' single season Red Sox home run record of 50 set in 1938, in the sixth inning against Minnesota Twins ' Boof Bonser.

The Twins trailed the Detroit Tigers by seven games in the American League Central division at the start of September, but rallied, winning 17 of their last 21 games to finish the season tied atop the division.

The Red Sox and Twins faced each other in the season's final series and entered the final day ( October 1 ) tied for first place ; the Tigers were 1 / 2 game out of first and needed to sweep a doubleheader from the California Angels to force a playoff between the winner of the Red Sox-Twins game.

Benefitting from use of the designated hitter in their home ballpark, the Twins then tied it on a mammoth home run by their DH, Don Baylor.

Contreras would also contribute the 3 postseason victories that tied Andy Pettitte for the most second half victories in the Major Leagues with 11, and he threw his first Major League complete game against the Minnesota Twins, on September 23 Contreras would finish the season 15 – 7 with a 3. 61 ERA and 154 strikeouts in 204 innings.

After the Twins tied the series in Game 6 with an 11-5 win thanks to a Kent Hrbek grand slam, it was up to Viola in Game 7.

On July 1, 2007, Thames hit a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to score the only run in the game in a victory over the Minnesota Twins.

On May 21, 2011, Johnson launched a pitch from Minnesota Twins closer Matt Capps deep into the right-field bleachers at Chase Field for a grand slam that capped the Diamondbacks rally from down 6-3 and made the score 9-6, which would be the final score.

* September 18 – Outfielder Gary Ward become the sixth Minnesota Twins player to hit for the cycle.

Heaven or Las Vegas is the sixth album by Scottish rock group Cocteau Twins, their last for the music label 4AD.

The 21-year-old Charboneau was originally drafted in the sixth round of the June 1976 draft by the Minnesota Twins, but he did not sign with them ; when the Philadelphia Phillies made him their second-round pick in the December supplementary draft, Joe was sent to the Class A Western Carolina League, where he hit. 298 in 43 games.

After five scoreless innings by both teams, the Twins broke through in the top of the sixth inning.

The Twins then blew the game open in the sixth.

* On September 18, 1980, Ward become the sixth Twins player to hit for the cycle.

The Sweet Valley Twins series features the twins as sixth grade students attending Sweet Valley Middle School.

The Twins nearly won the 1967 pennant, but Chance was outdueled in the season's final game, at Fenway Park, by Boston's Jim Lonborg, chasing Chance in with 5 runs in the sixth despite getting only one ball out of the infield, and the Red Sox emerged as surprise league champions — with Lonborg winning the 1967 AL Cy Young trophy in the process.

The Twins won by scoring a run in the bottom of the 10th inning, and Morris had pitched a shutout for all ten innings against the Braves.

Puckett gave the Twins an early lead by driving in Chuck Knoblauch with a triple in the first inning.

He came in on May 21, 1971 in the first inning, after Blue Moon Odom gave up three runs and three walks facing eight batters, against the Minnesota Twins in Oakland, and pitch 5-1 / 3 allowing three hits and two runs ( Twins 10 – Oakland 1 ).

The only time this happened was on October 2, 2004, when a game between the Twins and Indians reached the end of the 11th inning after 2: 30 pm in a tie and resumed the next day.

Such a double play ended the top half of the 8th inning during Game 7 of the 1991 World Series: With one out and the bases loaded, Atlanta's Sid Bream hit a ground ball at Twins first baseman Kent Hrbek, who fielded it and threw it to catcher Brian Harper to retire Lonnie Smith at home.

On July 18 in a game against the Cleveland Indians, Killebrew and Bob Allison became the first teammates since 1890 to hit grand slams in the same inning as the Twins scored 11 runs in the first.

On July 11, the day before the All-Star break, defending AL champion Yankees had a one-run lead over the Twins going into the bottom of the 9th inning, but Killebrew hit a two-run home run for the win.

Twins Manager Ron Gardenhire had to use rookie pitcher Bobby Korecky as a hitter in the 11th inning of the game ; Korecky had only pitched in five major league games prior to this and had never had a major league at-bat.

In a postseason performance for the ages, the 36-year-old hurler, known throughout his career as a clutch " big game " pitcher, lived up to his billing by throwing 10 innings of shutout baseball against the Braves as the Twins won the World title on a 10th inning single by Gene Larkin that scored Dan Gladden.

Ault made his Major League Baseball debut with the Texas Rangers on September 9, 1976, and in his first at-bat, he struck out against Dave Goltz of the Minnesota Twins in the second inning.

Career highlights include a game-tying, 2-run pinch hit double in the top of the ninth inning against the New York Yankees, then scored to put the Pilots ahead to stay, winning 5 – 4 ( June 14, 1969 ), a walk-off, 2-run double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth for the Brewers as they came from behind and defeated the Minnesota Twins, 4 – 3 ( June 23, 1970 ), drove in both Milwaukee runs with a pair of sacrifice flies in a 2 – 1 win over the Kansas City Royals ( July 5, 1970 ), hit the only home run of his major league career, a solo shot against Chicago White Sox left-hander Jim Magnuson ( August 5, 1970 ).

Rincón made his Major League debut on June 7, 2001 for the Twins against the Cleveland Indians, working one scoreless inning in relief.

On June 9,, in the seventh inning of a game against the Kansas City Athletics, Oliva was one of five Twins players to hit home runs.

His seventh-inning, two-run home run in the American League Central Division's tiebreaker game on October 6, 2009, kept the Twins in the game, which they later won, 6 – 5, in the 12th inning, to advance to post-season play.

With the Indians already behind 11-1 to the Minnesota Twins, Agee made his major league debut on September 14 at Metropolitan Stadium pinch-hitting for pitcher Bill Dailey in the ninth inning.

White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle returned the favor in the next inning hitting Twins first baseman Michael Cuddyer.

In the same game however, Inge had the game-winning hit in the 13th inning against the Minnesota Twins.

Ten days later, he no-hit the Minnesota Twins, 6 – 0, at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, with the lone baserunner being Harmon Killebrew, who walked in the fourth inning.

Morris got out of the jam by striking out Sid Bream to end the inning, and the Twins added an insurance run in the bottom of the inning as Hrbek homered off Clancy.

In the 2002 American League Division Series, Pierzynski hit an important home run in the ninth inning of the final game, in which the Twins clinched the series.