This game lasted two hours and 21 minutes. That’s AWESOME.

With two outs in the eighth and everything tied 0-0, Mitch Garver sauced a two-run dong off Kansas City reliever Jake Diekman. The Twins’ most (only?) reliable bullpenner, Taylor Rogers, threw a perfect ninth, and that’s your ballgame.

It had been an honest-to-goodness pitchers’ duel up to that point. Kyle Gibson was Good Gibby, while Royals youngun Brad Keller did what he does best, using that “downward plane” to...

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