I\u2019ll always remember the events of 2018\u2019s final Minnesota Twins contest\u2014if mainly because I happened to be moving out of an apartment that day and missed it all live. But when my dust had settled and I watched the highlights, I was as moved by what transpired as any other MN sports fan.<\/p>\n
You already know the story: after growing up in St. Paul and attending Cretin-Derham Hall High School, Joe Mauer was drafted by the Twins in 2001 and played his entire HOF career<\/a> (2004-2018) in Twins Territory. Sadly, concussion issues<\/a> robbed Mauer of his favorite diamond position post-2014, so putting on the mask and gear for one final bow was likely as emotional for Joe as it was to all of us who watched it:<\/p>\n The newbie: Frankie beats the Rocket!<\/p>\n Thome christens Target Field (2010)<\/p>\n Dozier caps a comeback (2015)<\/p>\n Jacque Jones jolts contraction outta here (2002)<\/p>\n Denard Span\u2019s triple takes the top off (2008)<\/p>\n Francisco Liriano out-duels Roger Clemens (2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll always remember the events of 2018\u2019s final Minnesota Twins contest\u2014if mainly because I happened to be moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540578,"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-540577","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\/115967502779451371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540577","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=540577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}