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If you weren’t around this past offseason—and no judgement here—you missed our community Back to The Future discussion. When it comes to the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles clashing before May flowers spring from April showers, Old Biff sums things up nicely…
Since the year 2000, the Twins & Orioles have clashed 9 times (’00, ‘07, ‘11, ‘12, ‘13, ‘16, ‘18, ‘19, & ‘24) at either locale before the very merry month of May. I’m not sure if that is statistically significant, but it certainly seems
like it is! Overall, our crew is 13-15 in these early-season Orange Bird contests.
A couple of the highlights…
- ’07: Behind some Justin Morneau HRs, Joe Mauer 2Bs, and wins from Johan Santana, Pat Neshek, & Ramon Ortiz, the Twins swept the O’s at the Dome to open the season.
- ’19: The Bomba Squad was born in a late-April Camden Yards clash, with the Twins blasting 11 bombas in a three-game sweep.
Of course, sometimes it hasn’t gone so well when the other guys are in Oriole Orange…
- ’12: MN opened the season in BAL and clocked just five runs in three games—an Oriole sweep.
- ’16: As you’ve already seen, the Total System Failure (TM) campaign kicked off with three debilitating losses on the banks of the Patapsco River.
- ’24: In their defense of the ‘23 AL Central title, the Twins were tripped up in Baltimore with a close loss, a blowout loss, and a walk-off loss.
Here we are again with another Twins/Orioles early season collision. Let’s see if our visiting boys of summer can start the 2026 campaign off on the right foot by clipping the wings of these Icterus Galbula!
Lineups
(I’m often out walking or busy right up ‘til first pitch and last-minute lineup inputs stress me out—so, a clickety-click above will give you the pecking orders provided to the robots cyborgs Men in Blue)
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