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After sweeping the Twins once again in the ALCS, the Orioles won the 1970 World Series by defeating the Cincinnati Reds ' Big Red Machine in five games.
The Twins won 91 games in 1962, the most by the franchise since 1933.
These 1969 Twins won the very first American League Western Division Championship, but they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the first American League Championship Series.
The Atlanta Braves won all three of their games in Atlanta, and the Twins won all four of their games in Minnesota.
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.
Justin Morneau, drafted in 1999 by the Twins, won the AL MVP award in 2006.
In 2006, the Twins won the division on the last day of the regular season ( the only day all season they held sole possession of first place ) but lost to the Oakland Athletics in the ALDS.
After a mediocre year where the Twins played. 500 baseball for most of the season, the team won 17 of their last 21 games to tie the Detroit Tigers for the lead in the Central Division.
The Twins were able to use the play-in game rule to their advantage when they won the AL Central at the end of the regular season and winning a 12-inning tiebreaker on a walk-off hit by Alexi Casilla.
Brett won the title when a fly ball dropped in front of Twins left fielder Steve Brye, bounced on the Royals Stadium AstroTurf and over Brye's head to the wall ; Brett circled the bases for an inside-the-park home run.
Although the Twins won 91 games, six more than in their championship season, the team would finish a distant second in the American League West, 13 games behind the Oakland Athletics.
* World Series Minnesota Twins won 4 games to 3 over the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Minnesota Twins won two World Series championships at the Metrodome.
The Twins won the 1987 World Series and 1991 World Series by winning all four games held at the Dome in both seasons.
The Twins were awarded the right to host the tiebreaker because they won the season series against Detroit.
On July 1 in his first game as manager, the White Sox suffered a 10-0 loss to the Minnesota Twins but Doby won his first game, 8 5, the next day against the same team.
In 2002-2004, the Saints saw severely reduced attendance, owing partially to renewed interest in the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball, who won the 2002, 2003, and 2004 American League Central Division championships.
In, Martin's only season as manager of the Twins, he won a division championship.
The Yankees won the 2010 ALDS against the Minnesota Twins in 3 games but lost to the Texas Rangers in 6 games of the 2010 ALCS.
His Britten motorcycles won races and set numerous speed records on the international circuits, and astounded the motorcycle world in 1991 when they came a remarkable second and third against the factory machines in the Battle of the Twins at Daytona, United States Of America.
The Twins finally won the American League pennant during the 1965 season.
Killebrew led the best offense in the league and rookie manager Billy Martin's Twins won the new American League West division as a result.
Korecky ended up getting his first major league win in this game as the Twins won 7 6 in 12 innings.

Twins and games
In recent years the rivalry with Minnesota has become more prominent, with the Twins ' consistent standings atop the division, as well as the relatively short drive between the two clubs in which many fans from Minnesota make the trip and heavily populate Royals home games versus the Twins.
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.
The Twins and Tigers both finished one game back, with 91 71 records, while the White Sox finished three games back, at 89 73.
From that day forward, the Twins made a strong push to get as close as 5 games back of the division lead by the All-Star break.
By the end of August, the Twins were more than 20 games below. 500, and last in the American League.
The quirks of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, including the turf floor and the white roof, gave the Twins a significant home-field advantage that played into their winning the World Series in both 1987 and 1991, at least in the opinion of their opponents, as the Twins went 12 1 in post season home games during those two seasons.
Other prominent games developers include Julian Gollop ( Chaos, Rebelstar, X-COM series ), Matthew Smith ( Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy ), Jon Ritman ( Match Day, Head Over Heels ), Jonathan " Joffa " Smith ( Ping Pong, Batman: The Caped Crusader, Mikie, HyperSports ), The Oliver Twins ( the Dizzy series ), Clive Townsend ( Saboteur ), Sandy White ( Ant Attack, I of the mask ), Pete Cooke ( Tau Ceti ), Mike Singleton ( The Lords of Midnight, War In Middle Earth ), and Alan Cox.
More than 54, 000 fans saw the Yankees beat the Minnesota Twins, 11 4, and the " new Stadium " hosted its first playoff and World Series games that October.
Injuries slowed Mantle and the Yankees during the 1965 season, and they finished in 6th, 25 games behind the Minnesota Twins.
* 1965 ( Twins Dodgers )-All seven games were preserved by the CBC on kinescope.
He batted. 271 with 21 home runs, appearing in 143 games for the Twins, mostly as their designated hitter.
After signing with the team, he was assigned to the rookie-league Elizabethton Twins in the Appalachian League where he immediately showed why the Twins considered him so highly, hitting. 382, with 3 home runs, 35 RBI, and 43 steals, in only 65 games, albeit against predominantly younger players.
In 1987, the Twins reached the post-season for the first time since 1970 despite finishing with a mark of 85-77 ( a mark that would have put them 4 games behind fourth place New York in the American League East ).

Twins and American
Previously, the Twins had narrowly beat out the Royals for the 1987 American League West pennant, in which the Twins later took the World Series versus the St. Louis Cardinals.
" In The Last Egyptian, Lord Roane uses " nigger " to insult the title character, while in The Daring Twins, set in the American South, the only character to use the term is a boy from Boston complaining that his mother uses their money to help " naked niggers in Africa.
* 1965 Greg Dulli, American musician ( The Twilight Singers, The Afghan Whigs, and The Gutter Twins )
Heading into the final weekend of the season in 1967, the Twins, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and Detroit Tigers all had a shot at clinching the American League championship.
The 1987 World Series matched the Cardinals against the American League champion Minnesota Twins.
* February 16 Harold " Hal " & Herbert " Herbie " Kalin, American singers ( The Kalin Twins ) ( d. 2005 and 2006, respectively )
After stints with the Twins, Cubs and Marlins, he pitched for the Red Sox, turning into one of the American League's premier setup men.
The Twins then beat the Toronto Blue Jays in five games in the American League Championship Series as Puckett batted. 429 with two home runs and six RBI to win the ALCS MVP.
* Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins First Baseman and 2006 American League MVP
Nimrod's city park is named Stigman's Mound, for Dick Stigman, relief pitcher on the 1965 American League Championship-winning Minnesota Twins, who was born in Nimrod.
In September of the same year, Twins embarked on a multi-city North American concert tour, with special guests Sun Boy ' Z.
The Treniers were an American R & B and jump blues musical group, led by identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier with the Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra which included Don Hill on saxophone, Shifty Henry and later James ( Jimmy ) Johnson on bass, Henry ( Tucker ) Green on drums and Gene Gilbeaux on piano, along with the Treniers Twins and later, additional Treniers brothers, joining the group on vocals.
* William Clinton Zepp ( born 1946 ), American pitcher in Major League Baseball whose career with Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers lasted from 1969 to 1971 ; best known as Bill Zepp
After their set, the band stayed in the studio to watch a report on two American models who called themselves " The Barbi Twins ".
* an American League baseball team based in Washington, D. C. from 1901 to 1960, that moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul in 1961 and became the Minnesota Twins.
Hunter, along with an improved team and solid bullpen pitching, led a resurgence in the latter half of the season which powered the Twins to win the American League Central Division.
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 final Twins game at the Metrodome was on October 11, 2009, when they lost to the New York Yankees 4-1, resulting in three-game sweep in the 2009 American League Division Series.

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