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Twins 4-1-1: Everything about the Twins-Yankees wild card game
Links to team updates, rosters, statistics, our Live Blog and more. Click here for a guide to Tuesday night's wild card game between the Twins and Yankees.
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Grossman replaces Sano as Twins' DH, and bats at the bottom of lineup
Tonight is only the seventh time an American League team has batted its designated hitter ninth.
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Souhan: Buxton's baserunning could be key vs. Yankees
If Byron Buxton can get on early in the game, he could cause the Yankees problems, and perhaps unnerve young starter Luis Severino.
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Let the game begin: Twins take their shot at Yankees in wild-card playoff
The Twins are in the wild-card playoff for the first time. But it was the excitement that surrounded their "Game 163s" in 2008 and 2009 that led to baseball creating the one-game showdown.
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Souhan: Coming off best year, Santana exudes confidence
The Twins will need his leadership and savvy to finally dispatch the Yankees, the franchise that ruined so many of their Octobers.
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As Mauer's contract nears an end, Minnesota fans shift ire to Parise's deal
Joe Mauer and Zach Parise have enough personal and professional similarities that sometimes it seems as though they are living the same life.
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Twins wild card roster is set, and Miguel Sano is not on it
Twins will go with 11 pitchers in the win-or-go-home game tonight as Sano could not get ready in time
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'Big-time arms': Twins in for a battle with Yankees' bullpen
The Yankees have at least three relievers who would likely be closers on most other major league teams
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Unexpected success could be the start of something big for Twins
All indications, including the Twins' own history, suggest that the 2017 postseason, no matter if it lasts one night or a month, is only the prelude to something that figures to last much longer.
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Roster status of hobbled Sano to be decided this morning
Miguel Sano spent Monday afternoon in the visitors' clubhouse, undergoing treatment for his sore left shin and hitting a few pitches in the indoor cages.
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Twins-Yankees probable wild-card starting lineups
It's Santana vs. Severino in a win-or-go-home playoff game in the Bronx on Tuesday.
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Reusse: Vegas hero Todd Blyleven once followed in father's footsteps
Todd was in the concert crowd at the Las Vegas shooting -- and he did all he could to help.
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Souhan: Why hasn't 'Falvine' settled Molitor's status with Twins?
Paul Molitor should be a manager of the year candidate, if not the winner of the award. So why hasn't his status with the Twins been settled yet?
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ESPN's Olney: Twins vs. Yankees is a 'more level playing field' this time
The Twins are back in the playoffs for the first time since that last defeat at the hands of the Yankees, so naturally … they have to play the Yankees.
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Workout updates: Severino looking forward to facing Twins, Santana
Offense is the best thing going for the Twins as they enter the wild-card game, and that is what concerns Yankees starter Luis Severino as he prepares to face them.
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Twins-Yankees: The New York view is confident (with some concern)
Of course the Yankees are favored in Tuesday's wild-card game, based both on current weeks and not-so-current results. Here's a look at some of what's being written and said in New York.
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Molitor's job status still uncertain as Twins head to postseason
Twins manager Paul Molitor, 61, enters Tuesday's wild card game in New York with zero games of postseason managing experience. He does not have a contract for next season.
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Souhan: Whether he likes it or not, Dozier is Twins' MVP
Brian Dozier would rather not get caught up in team award talk, but the Twins' leadoff hitter is the MVP in the clubhouse and on the field.
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Colon makes case for playoff roster spot by pitching Twins to 5-1 win
In the regular-season finale, 44-year-old Bartolo Colon allowed only three hits and just one run over 6 1/3 innings, a performance that helped deliver the Twins' 85th victory of the season.
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New-look Yankees stocked with power hitters, power pitchers
Twins' wild-card foe got younger — and better.
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- Altuve drives in go-ahead run, steals 300th base to lead Astros over Mariners 5-3
- Arenado drives in 3 and Gray pitches seven innings as the Cardinals beat the White Sox 3-0
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- Alec Bohm, Brandon Marsh lead surging Phillies to 4-3 win over Giants
- Salvador Perez hits 3-run HR, Brady Singer pitches 6 dominant innings as Royals beat Rangers 7-1
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