Ron Gardenhire

David Meyer, umpiring a high school game in Indiana, saw something he'd never seen before, an unusually sharp-breaking curveball. "My dad wasn't sure what it was," Alex Meyer said, "so he asked [the pitcher], 'What are you throwing?' and he showed him...

The Sports Xchange By Richard L. Shook, The Sports Xchange Tigers 4, Twins 3 DETROIT - Small ball was parlayed into big ball by the Detroit Tigers on Monday night as they fought back from a 3-1 deficit to take a 4-3 victory from the Minnesota Twins...

The Sports Xchange By Richard L. Shook, The Sports Xchange Fielder homer completes Tigers' rally vs. Twins DETROIT -- What started with a little pop ended with a big bang. Andy Dirks started a rally with a bunt single on the first pitch of the sixth...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Minnesota Twins - INSIDE PITCH Former Minnesota closer Joe Nathan returned to Minneapolis, where he saved many a Twins game in years past. But now he is a Texas Ranger, and saving games for them against the Twins....

The Sports Xchange By Joe Oberle, The Sports Xchange Twins 5, Rangers 0 MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins used strong starting pitching and timely hitting to gain a split of their home series with the Texas Rangers on Sunday at Target Field with a 5-0...

The Sports Xchange Correia sharp again as Twins shut out Rangers MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins used strong starting pitching and timely hitting to gain a split of their home series with the Texas Rangers on Sunday at Target Field. Twins starter...

The Sports Xchange Twins make hits count against Rangers MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins had been missing clutch hitting in their series with the Texas Rangers, but they found plenty on Saturday in a 7-2 win at Target Field. Both teams received...

The Sports Xchange By Joe Oberle, The Sports Xchange Grimm's pitching helps Rangers win MINNEAPOLIS -- For the second night in a row, the Minnesota Twins ran into a tough pitching performance against the Texas Rangers as starter Justin Grimm quieted...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Minnesota Twins - INSIDE PITCH The performance of relief pitchers is sometimes hard to quantify. Often their appearances are so short -- one batter long, even -- that you don't really see what they've done before...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Minnesota Twins - INSIDE PITCH The struggles of Twins' center fielder and leadoff hitter Aaron Hicks at the plate have led to some unexpected changes to the Minnesota lineup. In the second game against the Los...

The Sports Xchange Tepesch, Rangers edge Twins MINNEAPOLIS -- On the warmest night of the season at Target Field, Rangers rookie Nick Tepesch kept the Twins' bats cold, and Texas beat Minnesota 2-1 Thursday. Tepesch dominated the Twins through the...

From 2002 through 2010, the Twins and White Sox occupied first and second place in the AL Central five times. And three more times they were first and third. Some of the battles were classics, prompting former Sox manager Ozzie Guillen to label Ron...