Starting with Game 2 of the 2004 ALDS and continuing through the 2020 Wild Card sweep by the Houston Astros, the Minnesota Twins lost 18 consecutive postseason contests\u2014the longest such drought in North American professional sporting league history. The franchise had nearly become synonymous with the very concept of \u201cplayoff losing\u201d.<\/p>\n
But then, 2023 happened. Royce Lewis went supernova<\/a>, Carlos Correa & Sonny Gray got sneaky<\/a>, and Jhoan Duran slammed the door<\/a> on the Toronto Blue Jays. For the first time in nearly two decades, YOUR Minnesota Twins were playoff winners!<\/p>\n The newbie: Old Man Don & Hometown Hrbie extend 1987 to its final day.<\/p>\n Thome christens Target Field (2010)<\/p>\n Santana strikes out 17 (2007)<\/p>\n Mauer\u2019s final bow (2018)<\/p>\n Dozier caps a comeback (2015)<\/p>\n Baylor & Hrbek prolong the World Series magic (1987)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting with Game 2 of the 2004 ALDS and continuing through the 2020 Wild Card sweep by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,3190,4,148,40788],"class_list":{"0":"post-508324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-minnesotatwins","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-twins","14":"tag-twins-history-and-nostalgia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115849707120810717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}