Today's Almanac includes the fifth no-hitter in Twins history, a hot start to a season and a hot start to a career by two players forever linked in Twins history, and the birthday of a major league pitcher from the northwest suburbs.
Welcome to this week's edition of Three Up, Three Down — your weekly catch-up of the three best highlights (and lowlights) from around the league. We're here for all of the cheers and the jeers, because it's baseball.
It was not too long ago that the obituary for the 2017 Toronto Blue Jays was all but written: “The Blue Jays, recent champions of the American League East division, died suddenly in May of 2017, following a sudden and brutal April debut.