The Minnesota Twins have done an admirable job of competing over the past 20 years, but they haven’t been able to tame the top beast standing in their path: the Yankee Stadium playoff atmosphere.
Year after year, exemplary Twins teams have arrived in the Bronx looking for vengeance, and not only haven’t found it, but have instead fallen victim to new and interesting ways of torture, dropping their last 13 playoff games to the NYY going back to a Game 1 win in the 2004 ALDS (hey, Twins, we’ll give you that whole series if you want it, actually!