Roundup: Baker solid as Twins win fourth straight

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) | Scott Baker allowed a run and four hits over seven innings Monday night, leading the Minnesota Twins to their fourth straight win with a 2-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Jason Kubel drove in the go-ahead run, and Alexi Casilla tripled and scored on a wild pitch from Baltimore rookie Chris Tillman in the sixth inning. Minnesota matched its season-high winning...

Denard Span laced a bases-loaded triple, bookended by a pair of Michael Cuddyer homers in an eight-run seventh inning as the Twins doused the Royals at Kaufmann Stadium on Sunday. While Minnesota won the game, it’s difficult to consider the skills in this line-up and not wonder what might have been for this year’s Twins. Four players with 20 home runs for the first...

Right-hander Scott Baker and his streaking Minnesota Twins head back home tonight with designs on remaining in the American League playoff race, as they open a three-game series with the visiting Baltimore Orioles at the Metrodome.

Justin Morneau returned to the Twins lineup for Monday night's game against Baltimore after missing six games with an inner ear infection.

Delmon Young's fourth hit of the night scored Michael Cuddyer in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 7-6 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday.

The Minnesota Twins are barely hanging on in the playoff race as they've struggled to compensate for an injury-ravaged rotation and a pitching staff that has the fourth worst ERA in the American League. Kevin Slowey (right wrist surgery) is out for the season, while Glen Perkins (left shoulder tendinitis) and Francisco Liriano (left arm fatigue) are also both on the disabled list.

Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau is back in the lineup after missing six games with an inner ear infection.

Jeff Passan gets poetic about Joe Mauer’s MVP season. From the prose part: Some peers in the Baseball Writers Association of America give first-place votes only to those on first-place teams. That is their prerogative, dunderheaded as such thinking is. Value is a subjective quality, though whoever willfully ignores perhaps the best season ever from [...]

(Sports Network) -- A season-high winning streak has the Minnesota Twins back in contention for the American League's Central Division title. The surging club takes aim at a sixth straight victory and a series sweep of the Baltimore Orioles when the two teams square off again this evening at the Metrodome.

It's been a decade since the Pirates had a 15-game winner ? Todd Ritchie in 1999 ? and the most recent 20-game winner was John Smiley in 1991.