The Twins had to fight tooth and nail to get into the playoffs, but now they have to face the dreaded New York Yankees. The same New York Yankees team that went 7-0 against the Twins in the regular season. They don’t have a chance, right? Well, maybe they do. A quick look at those 7 games against the Yankees is very telling: they are very close to evenly matched. That’s right, despite laying a big goose egg in the win column against the Yanks, the Twins played the very close all year. One game, on July 7th, was a 10-2 blowout for the Yankees. Every other game between the two teams was a 1 or 2 run Yankee win. That’s right, the Yankees only beat the Twins by more than 2 runs on one occasion all season. If that 10-2 blowout had gone in the Twins favor instead of the Yankees, the Twins would have been 1-6 against the Yankees on the year despite have scored an equal number of runs scored as they had allowed.

All 10 of ESPN’s experts are picking the Yankees to win this series. Only 1 of the 10 has the ALDS going 5 games. It seems they’ve already decided the Yankees are going to blow out the Twins, even though it’s something they only accomplished once in 7 tries this year.

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