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Anyone who was at Fenway Park the night of April 26 will remember the flash of white uniform dashing down the third-base line.

It was mid-September, and Ron Gardenhire's Twins had lost seven of 10 games, dropping them two games below .500 with 20 games left in the regular season.

In baseball, ita TMs not always easy to find the answers. A To this day it seems that almost no pitchers have found the answer to Albert Pujolsa TM bat and no hittersa 'except Chase Utleya 'have found the answer for CC Sabathiaa TMs left arm.

Since Todd Walker and Chuck Knoblauch played at the Metrodome, the Twins haven't had steady play from any of their second basemen.

With the Joe Mauer situation on the back-burner, the Twins now can turn their attention to which of their internal free agents they would like to retain for the next season.

Note: This is the fourth installment in a ten-part series analyzing the Twins' 2009 season.

Mike Scioscia wants everyone to slow down on that whole Freeway Series thing. The Angels manager - and former Dodgers catcher - had just eliminated the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs when he was reminded that the other L.A. team had also swept through the first round.

And they are bringing . The Yankees last night removed TBA from their AL Division Series schedule - it only took until 20 hours before first pitch - and replaced it with MIN.

Last update: October 7, 2009 - 9:06 AM We woke up at 5:30 this morning still thinking about the game last night.

With the playoffs starting today, we give you a series-by-series LDS breakdown. Next up is game two of three today, with the Yankees and Twins squaring off on TBS at 6:07 p.m. The regular season could not have ended in a more dramatic fashion, with the Twins defeating the Tigers in game 163 on a 12th-inning walk-off single by Alexi Casilla after an ...

TBS on Tuesday night set the table for its postseason Major League Baseball coverage, as the network's telecast of the AL Central tie-breaker drew 6.54 million viewers.

PHERSY: Despite all the negativity and doubt from you Feldy, the Minnesota Twins are in the postseason.

Mere sports rarely rises to the level of "lead of The Glean" , but last night's Twins game will be the talk of the town not only today but for quite a few to come.

Instant replay: At the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis -- Twins 6, Tigers 5 The Twins got the tie-breaking run in the bottom half of the 12th to win the Central Division after the Tigers loaded the bases with one out in the top half but couldn't score.

Kevin Haefner of Mankato is one of many area Twins fans who attended Tuesday's memorable game.

It's a story of determination and risk, about a business that survived against the odds, with some good food mixed in.

For the first time since they started coming to town in the 1940s, Latinos have a national organization championing their future.

The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers 6-5 on Tuesday evening in the twelfth inning of a tense game, clinching the American League Central title.

And so the Tigers endured one final late-inning Metrodome meltdown, this one the most painful of all.

The Twins' Alexi Casilla points to the dugout after hitting a double in the ninth inning of the first game of the doubleheader.