{"id":577501,"date":"2026-02-17T13:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/577501\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:38:20","slug":"greatest-twins-moments-performances-a-twinkie-town-definitive-list-round-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/577501\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Twins Moments &#038; Performances: A Twinkie Town Definitive List (Round 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There\u2019s a moment in every memorable Twins season where fans realize \u201chey, this is going to be something special\u201d. In 1965, that happened on July 11. Trailing the rival New York Yankees 5-4 going into the bottom of the ninth, Harmon Killebrew dug in representing the winning run. NYY hurler Pete Mikkelsen didn\u2019t stand a chance:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thanks to their superstar slugger\u2019s walkoff heroics, the \u201865 Twins were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinkietown.com\/2025\/2\/14\/24357568\/mlb-minnesota-twins-1965-zoilo-versalles-harmon-killebrew-tony-oliva-mudcat-grant-jim-kaat-1st-place\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">off and running<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The newbie: a terrific trifecta!<\/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<p>Radke-Santana-Lohse Go Back-To-Back-To-Back (2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a moment in every memorable Twins season where fans realize \u201chey, this is going to be something&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577502,"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-577501","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\/116086251006300112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577501","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=577501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}