0-6. 9-30.
Numbers against the Chicago White Sox (38-38) this year aren’t pretty. But as badly as the Minnesota Twins have played this year, if we reversed the numbers of just the two series the Twins (24-51) and White Sox have played against one another this year, Minnesota would only trail the White Sox by two games in the win column.
That’s why when a manager says, “It’s early, the season is 162 games long…” they are forgetting how important every series actually is, especially those against division foes.
In the Twins’ first six games of the year, they lost three games by one run, and another two games by two runs.