Ron Gardenhire

A 5-3 Minnesota Twins win on Sunday runs a win streak to 4 with weather shortened series sweeps over a couple of struggling ballclubs.

The Minnesota Twins aren’t playing like a team content to muddle through rebuilding. Aaron Hicks ended a 0-for-13 skid with a tiebreaking RBI single in a two-run seventh inning, rallying the Twins past the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 on Sunday.

Aaron Hicks left the Minnesota Twins with little to debate: He’s their starting center fielder and leadoff hitter. Hicks, who played at Double-A New Britain last year, went 4 for 4 and scored three runs in Sunday's 14-5 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Minnesota Twins rallied to tie in the ninth inning, then scored a pair of runs in the top of the 10th to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-4 Monday night.

Minnesota Twins prospect Liam Hendriks gave up two runs and four hits in three innings of an 8-5 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.

FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Minnesota Twins have had all of two managers over the last quarter-century, so it's a bit startling to see Ron Gardenhire beginning the last year of his contract, his job seemingly on the line.

Chris Parmelee spent the past two seasons shuttling back and forth between the big leagues and the minors. Following Minnesota's offseason trades of Denard Span and Ben Revere, Parmelee hopes to become the Twins' starting right fielder.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins have fired three coaches and their head athletic trainer in the wake of a second straight last-place finish in the AL Central. The Twins announced the moves on Thursday. Longtime bullpen coach Rick Stelmaszek, third base coach Steve Liddle, first base coach Jerry White and head athletic trainer Rick McWane did not have their contracts renewed for 2013... Read Mor