Ron Gardenhire

Samuel Deduno kept the Seattle Mariners off balance for seven scoreless innings Saturday and Justin Morneau and Brian Dozier each homered to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 4-0 victory.

The Minnesota Twins will be without All-Star catcher Joe Mauer until Tuesday.

Joe Mauer’s two-out RBI single in the eighth inning lifted the Minnesota Twins to a 3-2 victory over Cleveland on Friday, after an error by Indians first baseman Nick Swisher set up the winning run.

Aaron Hicks hit a three-run homer a pitch after a two-out throwing error, and Minnesota took advantage of some Yankees miscues and misfortune to beat CC Sabathia for the first time in six years, 10-4 Sunday. It was also the Twins first series win in New York in more than a decade.

Samuel Deduno pitched seven impressive innings and the slumping Minnesota Twins finally figured out a way to beat the New York Yankees, hitting three home runs off Phil Hughes in a 4-1 win Saturday.

Mark Buerhle made his 50th start against the Minnesota Twins one to remember. Jose Bautista hit his 20th home run, Buehrle pitched seven shutout innings to win for the first time in three starts and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the slumping Twins 4-0 Friday.

The Minnesota Twins have watched Mariano Rivera break a lot of their bats over the years. On Tuesday they presented the retiring New York Yankees closer with a gift that captured Rivera’s dominance.

The Minnesota Twins found all kinds of opportunities to win this game, and the series, against the Kansas City Royals. Chris Parmelee was in the middle of most of the misses. David Lough hit three doubles, then launched a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning that gave the Royals enough to beat the Twins 9-8 on Sunday.

Samuel Deduno allowed four hits over six-plus innings and Ryan Doumit went 2-for-4 with a home run and an RBI single

Aaron Hicks homered again and made another run-saving grab, helping Samuel Deduno and the Minnesota Twins beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-1 on Wednesday.