Who are the Minnesota Twins going to play in a sudden death baseball game for a playoff spot?”
The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They have played in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome since 1982, but will move to the new Target Field in 2010. One of the American League’s eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1901 as the Washington Senators. In 1905, the team changed its official name to the Washington Nationals.[1] The name “Nationals” appeared on uniforms for only 2 seasons, and was then replaced with the “W” logo for the next 52 years. The media often shortened the nickname to “Nats”. Many fans and newspapers (especially out-of-town papers) persisted in using the “Senators” nickname. Over time, “Nationals” faded as a nickname, and “Senators” became dominant. Baseball guides listed the club’s nickname as “Nationals or Senators”,
More than 51,000 fans and dozens of players from Metrodome lore turned out on Sunday to say goodbye to this big, dingy building after 28 weird, wacky and sometimes wonderful baseball seasons. Hang on to those Homer Hankies: The Metrodome showed this weekend that it still has some of that old magic left and isn’t ready to let the Minnesota Twins go just yet. Jason Kubel got those familiar white towels waving with a pair of three-run homers and Minnesota beat Kansas City 13-4 Sunday, putting the Twins into a one-game playoff with the Detroit Tigers for the AL Central title. “The place doesn’t want to go away quietly yet,” Kubel said.
