Loss Sends Minnesota to the Bronx
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Ben Broussard hit a two-run homer to lift the Cleveland Indians, who sent the A.L. Central champion Twins to Yankee Stadium for the start of the playoffs.
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Alex Rodriguez scored from third base on a wild pitch by Kyle Lohse in the top of the 11th inning, giving the New York Yankees a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Twins in their American League Divisional Series in Minneapolis Saturday.
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They play to the last out in the Bronx, you know. The Minnesota Twins were agonizingly close to heading home with a 2-0 series lead. But funny things can happen when ballgames reach the 12th inning and pitchers are out there doing things they don't ordinarily do. And so after watching the Twins reach their tiring reliever ...
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After cutting their division deficit to seven and a half games a week ago, with the loss, the Yankees have fallen 10 Â½ games behind the Boston Red Sox.
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NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez hit a tying double in the 12th inning, then Derek Jeter dashed home on Hideki Matsui's sacrifice fly and the Yankees bailed out Mariano Rivera with another improbable postseason comeback, beating Minnesota 7-6 Wednesday night to even their series at a game apiece.   "Alex had a little trouble settling in here, but when you do this at Yankee Stadium in a postseason game, especially coming from behind, God only knows what it's going to do for him," New York manager Joe Torre said...
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Minnesota lost its last game and drew the New York Yankees for the first round of the playoffs, giving Anaheim the home-field advantage in its series against Boston.
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The last time he faced the Yankees, Johan Santana and the Minnesota Twins were knocked out of the American League playoffs.
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We've been here before, to paraphrase that noted Yankee philosopher, Yogi Berra. 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 to the indoor, climate-controlled Metrodome, and the Yanks closed things out behind Roger Clemens and David Wells, ...
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NEW YORK -- With Thursday night&#39;s epic defeat, the Yankees&#39; hold on first place in the American League East became increasingly tenuous.
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The Yankees missed out on a golden opportunity to put some more distance between themselves and the second-place Red Sox on Monday, falling 17-8 to the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
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Kevin Brown pitched six innings and Derek Jeter notched three hits and drove in three runs to lead the New York Yankees to an 8-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins in the American League Divisional Series Friday.
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The New York Yankees begin their quest towards a 27th World Series title on Tuesday when they welcome the Minnesota Twins to the Bronx for Game
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The Minnesota Twins might have moved two steps back toward a return to Yankee Stadium next week for the first round of the playoffs when they got swept by the New York Yankees in a rain
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Mike Mussina did all he could to keep the Yankees close, but his teammates wasted one scoring chance after another last night in a 2-0 AL Division Series Game 1 loss to Johan Santana and the Minnesota Twins.
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The Twins lost a chance to leave town with two wins when the Yankees battled back with two runs in the bottom of the 12th in a 7-6 loss in Game 2 of the American League Division Series on Wednesday.
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Right from the get-go, the Minnesota Twins will be on their toes. Because last year, they got off on the wrong foot in Game 1 of the playoffs at Yankee Stadium...
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Mike Mussinaâs rapid decline continued in the Yankeesâ worst loss of the season, a 16-0 wipeout by the Detroit Tigers.