{"id":645148,"date":"2026-03-26T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645148\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:45:14","slug":"game-1-twins-at-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645148\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 1: Twins at Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you weren\u2019t around this past offseason\u2014and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinkietown.com\/minnesota-twins-analysis\/51335\/mlb-minnesota-twins-pessimistic-pablo-lopez-injury-bad-bullpen-no-depth-large-variance-long-odds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no judgement here<\/a>\u2014you missed our community Back to The Future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinkietown.com\/book-club\/51237\/twinkietown-movie-night-back-to-the-future-part-iii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discussion<\/a>. 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\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since the year 2000, the Twins &amp; Orioles have clashed 9 times (\u201900, \u201807, \u201811, \u201812, \u201813, \u201816, \u201818, \u201819, &amp; \u201824) at either locale before the very merry month of May. I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A couple of the highlights\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of course, sometimes it hasn\u2019t gone so well when the other guys are in Oriole Orange\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here we are again with another Twins\/Orioles early season collision. Let\u2019s 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!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">(I\u2019m often out walking or busy right up \u2018til first pitch and last-minute lineup inputs stress me out\u2014so, a clickety-click above will give you the pecking orders provided to the robots cyborgs Men in Blue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you weren\u2019t around this past offseason\u2014and no judgement here\u2014you missed our community Back to The Future discussion.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,80253,3190,4,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-645148","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-minnesota-twins-discussion","12":"tag-minnesotatwins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116297198737899944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645148","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=645148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}