Twins Exhaust Nathan With 49 Pitches
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Forty-nine pitches. Joe Nathan hadn't thrown that many in more than four years.
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Kyle Lohse pitches seven sharp innings as the Twins beat the White Sox, 10-1, Thursday for their ninth straight victory.
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Terry Tiffee, Torii Hunter and Cristian Guzman homered Sunday to lead the Minnesota Twins to their fifth straight win, 8-5 over the Detroit Tigers.
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The Minnesota Twins pitcher picked up all 28 first-place votes. Curt Schilling of Boston wound up second in voting, twins closer Joe Nathan tied for fourth.
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Joe Mauer hit a three-run homer, and Michael Cuddyer and Justin Morneau also connected to lead the surging Minnesota Twins past the slumping Chicago White Sox 7-4 Monday night.
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Derrick Turnbow&#039;s bases loaded walk to Shannon Stewart in the eighth forced home the go-ahead run and helped the Minnesota Twins extended their winning streak to nine games with a 10-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night.
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The Minnesota Twins moved within a   game of the faltering Detroit Tigers in the American League   Central with a 9-4 win over Cleveland on Thursday.
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The Chicago White Sox blew a ninth-inning lead, bounced right back and gained a game in the AL Central race. Thanks to Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer, the Minnesota Twins had a much easier night.
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Frank Thomas hit one out of the park for the 500th time. Eight innings later, he was sent out of the park himself.
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Cristian Guzman and Shannon Stewart homered to lead the Minnesota Twins over the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Saturday night. The Tigers lost their two all-stars to knee injuries.
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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 rebounded from two poor starts by scattering five hits in seven innings and the Minnesota Twins defeated the Cleveland Indians 6-2 Saturday night.
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After Chicago's A.J. Pierzynski appears to spike Minnesota's Justin Morneau, the Twins rally for a 10-4 win.
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Thirty-two pitches. That's a couple innings for most pitchers -- or two lengthy Johnny Damon at-bats. It amounted to Kevin Brown's entire body of work against the Red Sox Sept. 26. It was not a pretty sight.
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Too tired to take batting practice, the bleary-eyed Minnesota Twins milled around the Metrodome just hours after another postseason rally by the New York Yankees evened their American League Division Series at one game each.
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Forty-nine pitches. Joe Nathan hadn&#39;t thrown that many in more than four years. It didn&#39;t matter that Torii Hunter hit a go-ahead home run in the 12th inning, Nathan couldn&#39;t hold the lead.
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Brandon Inge's 10th-inning double off Joe Nathan pushes Detroit past Minnesota, 4-3, on Thursday to complete a three-game sweep.