The Latest Breaking News from Twins

The Cubs aren’t much better in DefEff, and both are below the major-league average.

DETROIT — Royce Lewis' triumphant return to the big leagues didn't even last a full game.

NEW YORK — It was not long ago that the baseball world cast an eye of confused suspicion on the Yankees.

Matt Martell is off today to jump into a much-deserved long weekend for Memorial Day. Emma Baccellieri has you covered in his stead. There is a line that former ESPN writer Sam Miller used to say, in podcasts and in conversation, about when you could trust small-sample-size noise had disappeared…

MINNEAPOLIS — Trevor Megill threw the hardest pitch of his major league career in his Twins debut on Sunday. The official reading on the radar gun: 99.8 mph.

MINNEAPOLIS — Bobby Witt Jr.’s two-out, two-strike RBI double in the eighth put the Kansas City Royals ahead for the first time and capped a three-run inning.

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.

MINNEAPOLIS — Twins pitcher Joe Ryan was placed on the COVID injured list before Wednesday's game against the Tigers at Target Field.

MINNEAPOLIS — Twins starter Sonny Gray went seven scoreless innings as the Twins beat Detroit, 2-0, on Tuesday.