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The Latest Breaking News from Max Kepler

Banning defensive shifts makes batters feel better. But will they really hit better?

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Max Kepler considered the question, started to answer, and thought better of it.

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Carlos Correa’s Return Makes the Twins a Contender. Now They Must Add More

Minnesota won back its star shortstop, but it has more work to do in its lineup in order to set its sights on October.

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Jim Souhan: Healthy Twins team — featuring Byron Buxton — could win 90 games next season

MINNEAPOLIS — This has been one of the most confounding Twins seasons in memory.

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Jim Souhan: If Twins can stay healthy, especially Buxton, it could be a 90-win season

This has been one of the most confounding Twins seasons in memory.

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First-place Twins can’t handle Yankees’ power in series opener

NEW YORK — All but one Twins pitcher gave up a home run Monday, as the Twins lost to the Yankees, 5-2, at Yankee Stadium.

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Ninth-inning rally, walk-off walk give Twins late 3-2 comeback win in 10

MINNEAPOLIS — A rain delay Saturday iced the Twins game for almost an hour, but the later, the better, apparently.

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Twins return home and rout Giants, 9-0, to open series

MINNEAPOLIS — Not 24 hours before, Max Kepler embodied the Twins' frustration with their offensive slump.

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Twins can't take full advantage of Rangers' spotty defense in 10-inning loss

MINNEAPOLIS — The Rangers' middle infield, signed to a half-billion dollars worth of contracts last winter, accounted for two of the Twins' runs on Saturday night. At those prices, it only makes sense that they chipped in for their own team, too.

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Miranda, Kepler snap out of slumps as Twins top Royals 4-2

MINNEAPOLIS — A week without driving in a run was all Jose Miranda could take.

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With Sano returning, the Twins have decisions to make

To set the scene: Remember back to May 15, 2021. On that particular Saturday at Target Field, the Twins trailed Oakland for most of the game until Miguel Sano blasted a three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to steal a 5-4 victory.

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Twins pile on late again, sweep Tigers with 9-1 victory

DETROIT – The Twins completed a two-game sweep of the Tigers on Sunday, winning 9-1 at Comerica Park.

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Twins waste their own six-run inning in 9-7 loss to Rangers

ARLINGTON, Texas — On Friday, it was the Rangers who overcame an early 3-0 deficit with a big five-hit, six-run inning. On Saturday, the Twins fell short of doing the same.

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One big inning enough for Rangers to beat Sonny Gray, Twins

ARLINGTON, TEXAS — A steady stream of Twins baserunners and hits weren't a match for a one-inning downpour from the Rangers.

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Alex Kirilloff belts two of Twins' five homers in 8-2 crushing of White Sox

CHICAGO — Oh, Guaranteed Rate Field, you guaranteed-run feast. How the Twins have missed you.

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Bullpen meltdown costs Twins in 7-6 extra-innings loss

CLEVELAND — Emilio Pagan helped blow his second game in as many days, as the Twins fell, 7-6, to the Guardians in extra innings Wednesday.

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Twins shut out by Rockies, 1-0, in first game of weekend series at Target Field

MINNEAPOLIS — Carlos Correa was positioned perfectly. The statistics showed that Charlie Blackmon tended to pull the ball to the right side, and when the Rockies' designated hitter swung over the top of a sixth-inning fastball from Dylan Bundy, his ground ball hopped directly to the Twins' shortstop, stationed about…

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Cleveland rallies again, tops Twins 11-10 for first place in AL Central

MINNEAPOLIS — In another back-and-forth game Wednesday, the Twins officially dropped out of the American League Central lead, falling yet again to Cleveland 11-10 after entering the ninth inning with a 10-7 lead.

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Logan Gilbert shines on mound as Mariners down Twins 5-0

The pop of the 96 mph fastball that rocketed past Max Kepler’s bat and slammed into Cal Raleigh’s catcher’s mitt echoed Tuesday night throughout a sparsely crowded T-Mobile Park. Before the crowd of 13,019 could applaud his accomplishment, another pop of similar decibel level could be heard.

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Devin Smeltzer's strong start lifts Twins to 8-2 victory over Tigers in Game 1

DETROIT — Devin Smeltzer pitched 6 2⁄3 strong innings and Max Kepler had three hits and drove in three runs as the Twins won the opener of a doubleheader by beating the Tigers 8-2 on Tuesday at Comerica Park.

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Jeimer Candelario's late blast pushes Tigers past Twins in extras

MINNEAPOLIS — Harold Castro hit a pair of solo home runs Wednesday, the second a 423-foot blast into the upper tank in right-center field that tied the game at 2 in the top of the eighth inning.

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Twins top Tigers 5-4 on Max Kepler grand slam, Gio Urshela walkoff infield single

MINNEAPOLIS — The Twins offense couldn't have been much better to start Monday's game.

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Gary Sanchez stays hot, Twins wallop Royals, 9-2

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Maybe Gary Sanchez is too shy to chat with first basemen. Maybe he's annoyed by first-base coach Hank Conger. Maybe 90 feet just strikes him as too short a workout.

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Kyle Garlick homers twice as Twins defeat Rays, 9-1

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Kyle Garlick is almost always a sure bat against left-handed pitchers, and he proved that yet again in the Twins' 9-1 victory Saturday at Tampa Bay.

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Kepler’s two home runs more than enough to back up Ryan’s solid start vs. Detroit

MINNEAPOLIS — Oh, so that's why Joe Ryan is in the Twins' starting rotation and Michael Pineda isn't.

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Tigers throw away opener against Twins, spoil Báez's late three-run homer

MINNEAPOLIS — The Tigers were walked-off by the Minnesota Twins in the most bizarre way you could imagine Tuesday night.

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