A little over a month ago, I wrote about five different occasions that fans (and some media members, let's be honest) had declared the Twins were about to slide into irrelevance — only to have Minnesota come back each time.
The lesson I preached was that this is a resilient team and we couldn't give up on them until the last out was recorded in whatever game officially eliminated them from playoff contention.
Then I ignored my own advice and assumed after that awful West Coast trip and trade deadline selling that the Twins were — two months early — finished.
Fooled again.
These Twins are flawed in multiple areas and might not have any business being in the playoff race, but here they are. They won again Sunday — a game that felt like it was slipping away, a day after one had definitely slipped away — just to make sure we all remembered how resilient they really are.
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