MINNEAPOLIS Scott Diamond has been with the Minnesota Twins for less than a week, and he already has accounted for one-fifth of the team’s wins. Diamond, from Guelph, Ont., pitched seven shutout innings, Brian Dozier hit his first career homer and the Minnesota Twins held on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 Sunday.

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Twins’ outfielder Trevor Plouffe fails to catch this deep ball to right field in the fifth inning, which Dustin Pedroia turned into a triple, as Minnesota lost 7-6 to Boston at Target Field in Minneapolis on April 25, 2012.

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Twins prospect Alex Wimmers will not have surgery on his injured elbow, general manager Terry Ryan said Sunday, May 13. Instead, he will use therapy and rehab to come back from a small tear in his ulnar collateral ligament

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The Minnesota Twins will offer free baseball and softball clinics to youth in Mayer at 9 and 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 7 at Old Schoolhouse Park or, in the case of inclement weather, at the Mayer Community Center.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Henderson Alvarez pitched seven strong innings to win his third straight start for the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-2 over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night. Alvarez (3-2) stretched his scoreless streak to 17 innings before second baseman Kelly Johnson’s throwing error allowed the Twins to score in the third

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Henderson Alvarez pitched seven strong innings to win his third straight start for the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-2 over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night. Alvarez (3-2) stretched his scoreless streak to 17 innings before second baseman Kelly Johnson’s throwing error allowed the Twins to score in the third

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Date: Thursday May.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP)- When Erick Aybar came trotting home on a double from Mike Trout that gave the an early lead over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night, Angels starter Ervin Santana raised his hands in the dugout and smiled. Hard to blame him. It had been quite a while since he had pitched with a run on the board.

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Ervin Santana #54 of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim delivers a pitch against the Minnesota Twins during the fourth inning on May 9, 2012 at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Sitting fourteen games under .500, the Minnesota Twins needed to do something, anything, to possibly light a fire under the team.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The struggling Minnesota Twins are shaking things up, moving Francisco Liriano to the bullpen, optioning third baseman Danny Valencia to Triple-A Rochester and recalling former South Alabama and Faith Academy standout P.J. Walters from the minor leagues. The Twins announced the moves on Wednesday night after a 6-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels that dropped them to an MLB-worst 8-22.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) When Erick Aybar came trotting home on a double from Mike Trout that gave the Los Angeles an early lead over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night, Angels starter Ervin Santana raised his hands in the dugout and smiled. Hard to blame, him. It had been quite a while since he had pitched with a run on the board.

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Jared Burton was playing catch as a freshman at Western Carolina University when he developed what he calls the “splangeup,” an offspeed pitch like a changeup that dives like a split-fingered fastball. A variation on the “circle change,” for which a pitcher makes a circle with his thumb and forefinger, Burton found that “it moved a lot, and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s pretty good.’ ” So when Burton went home after practice, he held the ball with that circle grip “the whole night, just to get comfortable with it.” They’ve been tight ever since

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