The Minnesota Twins eliminated the Toronto Blue Jays from the postseason with a 2-0 win in Game 2 of the American League wild-card series at Target Field Wednesday evening.
Rookie Royce Lewis blasted two home runs in a record-setting day as the Twins defeated the Jays 3-1 to open their first game of the postseason Tuesday afternoon at Target Field.
The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the post-season for the third time in the last four years, this time facing the host Minnesota Twins on Tuesday (4:38 p.m. ET).
Major League Baseball started to use instant replay for questionable calls during the grapefruit league game Monday March 3, between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Minnesota Twins in Florida. Jays manager John Gibbons was the first person to make the request.
Reliever Alex Burnett of the Minnesota Twins was on the mound Wednesday night as he faced the Toronto Blue Jays’ Omar Vizquel with two outs in the bottom of the seventh.
The count was 1-0.
This was the last day of the 2012 season for the Jays but, more significantly, it was the final game of Vizquel’s storied baseball career.
Over the course of six months and 162 games, fans have patiently waited for the two words that separate Major League Baseball from all other sports during the fall season; October baseball.
Edwin Encarnacion was three-for-four with four runs batted in, leading the Toronto Blue Jays (84-76) to a 6-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins (93-67) on Friday night at Target Field.
Although Toronto-born reliever Jesse Crain didn’t play a role in the Minnesota Twins American League Central clinching win Tuesday night, he will certainly get a chance to make his mark in October.