The Twins finished their homestand 1-6 after they were swept by the Athletics and lost three of four games to the Tigers.

Twins starter José Ureña (0–1) ran into trouble in the second after two quick outs. A hit-by-pitch and a pair of basehits loaded the bases for Lawrence Butler, who cleared them with a double to left. Oakland added three more runs in the frame, building a 6–0 lead the Twins couldn’t recover from. The Twins couldn’t even get halfway there.

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The Minnesota Twins came into Thursday’s matinee desperate to avoid a sweep against the cellar-dwelling Oakland West Sacramento Athletics. Instead, they fell flat, undone by one disastrous inning and a sputtering offense in an 8–3 loss at Target Field.

In a 4-2 loss to the Athletics on Wednesday, the lasting image may be Twins reliever Génesis Cabrera punching his glove after giving up a go-ahead, two-run homer to Shea Langeliers to begin the 10th inning.

The former Scarlet Knights wrestler (and current Princeton assistant coach) is one of the four inductees in the Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame’s 2025 class, the school announced on Thursday.

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The A’s built a big lead with a three-run fourth inning, and the Twins couldn’t rally despite home runs from Brooks Lee and Ryan Jeffers.

A teacher has quit his job to pursue a full-time athletics career after a 5km run time during lockdown raised eyebrows. Kirsty Cutting said she "needed proof" after her brother Jack Kavanagh recorded a time of 16 minutes and 32 seconds while working as a primary school teacher in Hurst Green,