The Minnesota Twins stayed scorching on Saturday to earn their thirteenth straight win, blanking the Milwaukee Brewers 7-0. Whereas the Twins’ present profitable streak is the longest in Main League Baseball this season, it isn’t the longest in staff historical past for the reason that franchise moved to Minnesota in 1961.
That report belongs to the 1991 Twins, who reeled off 15 victories in a row and went on to win the World Collection that 12 months. However the 2025 Twins can declare a franchise report of their very own: They’ve pitched 33 straight scoreless innings. (They’d three longer shutout streaks after they had been the Washington Senators, however the newest of these occurred in 1913.)
The Twins have not allowed a run since giving up six of them within the third inning of an 8-6 victory at Baltimore within the second sport of a doubleheader Wednesday.
Milwaukee has been shut out in 4 of its final 5 video games, the primary time that’s occurred in franchise historical past, in response to Sportradar. In accordance with Sportradar, the final staff to get shut out 4 instances in a five-game stretch was the Miami Marlins in July 2022.
Ryan Jeffers went 4-for-5 with a homer and double on Saturday, and Kody Clemens went 3-for-5 with a homer because the Twins collected 18 hits.
Twins starter Pablo Lopez mixed with three relievers on a three-hitter. López (4-2) struck out six and allowed two hits and two walks in six innings. Justin Topa, Jorge Alcala and Kody Funderburk every pitched one inning of reduction.
The Twins took management of the sport by scoring single runs in every of the primary six innings. 4 of these runs got here off Tobias Myers, who was despatched to the minors earlier this week earlier than getting referred to as again up when left-hander Jose Quintana went on the injured checklist.
Jeffers opened the scoring by hitting a 420-foot shot to left-center with one out within the first inning. He additionally doubled and scored within the third, singled within the fourth and singled within the eighth.
That is the second straight 12 months that the Twins have produced a profitable streak of a minimum of 12 video games.
They’re the primary MLB staff to win a minimum of 12 straight video games in consecutive seasons since Cleveland did it in 2016-17. The one different staff from one of many males’s main sports activities leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL) to perform that feat is the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, who had streaks of that size in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17.
Every of the final two years, the Twins have used an extended profitable streak to bounce again from a gradual begin.
Final 12 months, the Twins bought off to a 7-13 begin earlier than reeling off 12 straight victories, although they finally missed the playoffs after dropping seven of their final eight video games. This 12 months, the Twins had been 13-20 earlier than profitable 13 straight.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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