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MINNEAPOLIS Johan (YOH&#39;-hahn) Santana took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and won his ninth straight start pitching the Minnesota Twins over the Kansas City Royals 2-to-0.
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Torii Hunter and Rondell White homered on consecutive pitches in the eighth inning to help the surging Minnesota Twins beat the Cleveland Indians 9-4 Thursday night and pull within one game of first place.
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Johan Santana pitched eight strong innings in his final start before the playoffs, earning his 19th win and leading the Minnesota Twins to a 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.
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Johan Santana took a shutout into the eighth inning Wednesday night to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 7-2 victory over the Yankees.
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The Twins took home another AL Central championship on Sunday and Joe Mauer became the first catcher to win an American League batting title by getting two hits in Minnesota's 5-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
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MINNEAPOLIS - More than 26 hours after the oddly suspended game began, the Twins gave themselves a chance to open the AL playoffs at home by finishing a 6-5 victory over the Indians on Michael Cuddyer's two-out double in the 12th inning Sunday.    The teams were tied at 5-all after 11 innings Saturday when play was halted at 2:33 p.m...
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Javier Vazquez pitched the New York Yankees to their second consecutive shutout, and Derek Jeter homered and doubled twice Wednesday in a 3-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - Johan Santana threw seven  shutout innings and Jacque Jones homered to lead the Minnesota  Twins to a 2-0 victory over New York in the opener of a  best-of-five American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium.
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The Minnesota Twins closed out the  season with a 5-1 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday to  capture the American League Central crown and avoid a  first-round playoff meeting with the New York Yankees.
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Last year, in the American League Division Series, the Minnesota Twins beat the New York Yankees in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium, then lost Game 2. The series shifted
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Johan Santana continued his dominating season, pitching six no-hit innings en route to a 2-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday.
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Justin Morneau's two-run double highlighted a four-run eighth inning and the Minnesota Twins rallied for a 7-5 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
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Johan Santana pitched seven crisp innings to win his fourth straight start and Jason Kubel hit a tiebreaking homer that helped the Minnesota Twins beat the Yankees on Wednesday.
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Johan Santana pitches eight strong innings to earn his 19th win and lead the Minnesota Twins to a 3-2ÃÂ win over Kansas City.
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Joe Nathan wasn&#039;t in a save situation. Didn&#039;t matter. The Minnesota Twins&#039; closer was pitching.
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Johan Santana pitched seven strong  innings to win his fifth straight start and Shannon Stewart  homered, had three hits and two RBI to lead the Minnesota Twins  to a 7-2 home win over the New York Yankees.
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Three years after setting an American League record for losses in a season, the Detroit Tigers have left the woeful Kansas City Royals behind. Omar Infante hit two home runs, and Jeremy Bonderman did the rest on the mound in the visiting Tigers&#039; 6-3 victory over Kansas City on Wednesday night, the Royals&#039; 12th straight loss. Kansas City fell to a major league-worst 10-34 and is already on its second double-digit losing streak of the young season.