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.

The Twins won 102 games and the American League Pennant in 1965, but they were defeated in the 1965 World Series by the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games ( behind the World Series Most Valuable Player, Sandy Koufax, with a 2 – 1 record, including winning the seventh game ).

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.

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.

A double by Green, Allison's run-scoring 2-baser, an infield single by Lemon and Gardner's solid single to center put the Twins back in front in the last of the fifth.

He leafed through the light reading provided by Mrs. Kirby for her guests: four separate adventures of the Bobbsey Twins ( At the Seashore, At the Mountains, On the Farm, and In Danger ) and several agricultural bulletins on the treatment of hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle, hideously illustrated.

) On September 28, 1995, Kirby Puckett, of the Minnesota Twins, was struck in the cheek by a Dennis Martínez fastball, breaking his jaw and loosening two teeth.

This had been followed three years later by " Twins ", a segment featuring actors Steve Buscemi and Joie and Cinqué Lee, and then in 1993 with the Short Film Palme d ' Or-winning " Somewhere in California ", starring musicians Tom Waits and Iggy Pop.

Griffith was determined not to alienate fans in either city by naming the team after one city or the other, so his desire was to name the team the " Twin Cities Twins ", however MLB objected.

In 1969, the new manager of the Twins, Billy Martin, pushed aggressive base running all-around, and Rod Carew set the all-time Major League record by stealing home seven times.

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.

In response to the threatened loss of the Twins, the Minnesota private and public sector negotiated and approved a financing package for a replacement stadium — a baseball-only outdoor, natural turf ballpark in the Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis — owned by a new entity known as the Minnesota Ballpark Authority.

* For Phoebe Still a Baby, a song by the Cocteau Twins

He was scouted by the Philadelphia Phillies and Minnesota Twins during his senior year, but opted instead to go to college.

The franchise was established in 1961 by the name of the Washington Senators, an expansion team awarded to Washington, D. C., after the city's first ballclub, the original Washington Senators, moved to Minnesota and became the Twins.

The first screen of Treasure Island Dizzy by Oliver Twins | The Oliver Twins

Major League Baseball expansion in 1961 included the formation of the Los Angeles Angels, the move to Minnesota to become the Minnesota Twins by the former Washington Senators and the formation of a new franchise called the Washington Senators.

* " Amelia ", a song by the Cocteau Twins on their 1984 album Treasure

Similarly, Nancy Drew mystery books are published as though they were written by Carolyn Keene, The Hardy Boys books are published as the work of Franklin W. Dixon, and The Bobbsey Twins series are credited to Laura Lee Hope, although several authors have been involved in each series.

The best-known hero myth is about the defeat of a bird demon and of the deities of disease and death by the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque.

* The Corsican Twins ( Skip Hinnant and Jim Boyd ): Twin brothers who could inflict pain on each other by hurting themselves while they taught different phonics.

Scoreboard operators sometimes played an animated sequence of piranhas munching under that caption in situations where the Twins were scoring runs playing " small ball ", and the stadium vendors sold tee-shirts and hats advertising " The Little Piranhas ".

The Twins broke the game open in the fourth, scoring six runs and chasing starter Danny Cox from the game.

It was the last scoring anyone did, as the Twins won the game 5 – 2.

Rollins would represent the Twins well in the games, reaching base three times in six plate appearances and scoring the AL's only run in their 3-1 loss in the July 10 game.

Due to his strong numbers, Chance had more than a decent chance at again winning 20 games, but the Twins offense let him down in 1968, scoring two runs or fewer in 17 of his 22 starts ( games in which Chance himself posted an ERA of 2. 55 ).