{"id":564278,"date":"2026-02-10T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/564278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:13:25","slug":"greatest-twins-moments-performances-a-twinkie-town-definitive-list-round-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/564278\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Twins Moments &#038; Performances: A Twinkie Town Definitive List (Round 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When the Twins moved to Target Field in 2010, I had to be <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mYmOxqb70co?si=r7CD8khizD_DrUMG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lured outdoors like TC Bear<\/a>. My entire baseball existence to that point had been under the Teflon roof. So when \u201cthe new place\u201d opened and balls weren\u2019t flying over fences and dramatic walk-offs weren\u2019t happening, I felt a little uneasy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Big Jim Thome changed all that on August 17\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The newbie: Jose Miranda goes streaking!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">(Note: I expect this series to continue 4-5 more weeks. I have plenty of moments\/performances to consider, but feel free to drop suggestions in the comments and I\u2019ll take them under advisement!)<\/p>\n<p>Jacque Jones jolts contraction outta here (2002)<\/p>\n<p>Denard Span\u2019s triple takes the top off (2008)<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Liriano out-duels Roger Clemens (2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Twins moved to Target Field in 2010, I had to be lured outdoors like TC Bear.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564279,"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-564278","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\/116046987554494060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564278","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=564278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}