Minnesota Twins News

Michael Cuddyer and Lew Ford homered and drove in three runs apiece to help the Minnesota Twins beat the Detroit Tigers 8-5 Saturday. Cuddyer hit a three-run homer, went 2-for-3 and scored two runs. Ford hit a two-run drive and a run-scoring double. Minnesota has won the first two games of the weekend series between [...]

Joe Mauer hit his first career grand slam and Johan Santana scattered five hits over six innings, leading the Minnesota Twins past the Detroit Tigers 11-1 on Friday night. The anticipated pitching duel between Santana and Justin Verlander never really materialized. Verlander gave up two runs in the first inning and Mauer broke the game [...]

Frank Thomas hit one out of the park for the 500th time. Eight innings later, he was sent out of the park himself. Thomas hit a three-run shot in the first inning of the Toronto Blue Jays’ 8-5 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Thursday, becoming the 21st major leaguer to reach 500. In [...]

The Minnesota Twins plan to promote pitcher Matt Garza from Triple-A Rochester in time for Friday night’s game at Detroit. “Garza will pitch out of the bullpen, but probably start one of the doubleheader games next Friday at Chicago,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said Thursday. Garza is 4-6 with a 3.92 ERA in 16 starts [...]

MINNEAPOLIS (Ticker) - Young righthander Matt Garza will be recalled from the minor leagues, the Minnesota Twins announced Thursday.

The offer on the table for Mark Buehrle is about $50 million over four years, according to one estimate,…

– Justin Morneau returned to the Minnesota Twins starting lineup Thursday, six days after bruising his right lung in a home plate collision. Serving as the designated hitter, the reigning AL MVP batted fifth. “He came into my office today, and we talked about him wanting to get on the field this morning, so we [...]

Gregg Zaun hit a two-run homer and the Toronto Blue Jays overcame four errors to beat the Minnesota Twins 5-4 Wednesday night. The Blue Jays won for the fifth time in six games despite tying a season high for errors. Toronto designated hitter Frank Thomas went 1-for-2 with two walks and stayed at 499 career [...]

Pinch-hitter Jeff Cirillo’s bases-loaded bloop single in the 12th inning lifted the Minnesota Twins to a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night. With the count 1-2, Cirillo hit a flare to shallow center field off lefty Brian Tallet (2-2). Vernon Wells and shortstop John McDonald both dived for the ball, but [...]

MINNEAPOLIS (Ticker) - Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire was ejected in the top of the eighth inning in Tuesday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays.