The New York Yankees’ top farm team is hitting the road for its home games next year, playing most of them at Frontier Field in Rochester, N.Y. Officials say Friday that 37 of the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees games will be played at Frontier, home of the Minnesota Twins’ Triple-A affiliate, the Red Wings.
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Jim Thome has hit 604 homers since entering the league with the Cleveland Indians in 1991.
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The Red Sox and Braves imploded and even the team atop the Power Rankings had its share of trouble in the final weeks.
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When Trevor Plouffe drove home Denard Span to beat the Kansas City Royals 1-0 in the season finale at Target Field, the Minnesota Twins emptied the dugout as if they had just won a playoff series. In a season like the one they had just finished, it probably felt that way.
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The Minnesota Twins entered the final series of the season with one goal — to avoid losing 100 games. They’re one game away from making that happen. In a season that has been so disappointing, they’ll take any small victory they can get. Rene Tosoni hit a grand slam and Chris Parmelee also went deep to lift the Twins to a 7-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.
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Vin Mazzaro entered the game against Minnesota on Tuesday night in the toughest of situations — bases loaded, nobody out with the Kansas City Royals down 3-2. Manager Ned Yost was hoping Mazzaro, who has been used more as a starter than a reliever this season, would be able to use his slider to wiggle out of the jam.
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The radio voice of the Minnesota Twins will retire on Wednesday, ending a 25-year run. John Gordon has called Twins games since his first year with the team in 1987, when Minnesota won the first of two championships. The game Wednesday night will be his last. Gordon says after 25 years with the Twins and 43 years in professional baseball, that’s enough balls and strikes.
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Melky Cabrera and Felipe Paulino were given fresh starts by Kansas City in 2011. The two showed Monday night why they have the Royals excited for 2012. Cabrera became the first Kansas City player in 11 years to reach 200 hits and Paulino (4-6) won for the third time in his last four decisions as the Royals topped the Minnesota Twins 7-3.
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Joe Mauer looked pale and a little gaunt. His voice was scratchy, interrupted often by a round of coughs. The Minnesota Twins catcher has pneumonia, the latest malady in this maddening season full of them. His last game of the year came on Sept. 14. But Mauer said Monday he’s sure there’s nothing wrong with him more than the sickness that prematurely ended his rough season, and he insisted he…
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Thanks in part to an inadvertent gesture in the dugout, Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire kept his Twins from taking another one on the chin. Rene Tosoni homered in the 10th inning and Chris Parmelee added an RBI single to give Minnesota a 6-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday. It was only the third win in 22 games for the battered and reeling Twins, who caught a break when Gardenhire…
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