The Twins are aware of the history, if only because it keeps getting brought up to them.
They can sense the fans back home in Minnesota are worried about their ALDS series against the Yankees — who have beaten the Twins in every playoff series between the two teams, winning 13 of 15 games — but they also know they largely have nothing to do with it.
“I was trying to figure out how to get a higher ACT score to get into college the last time these teams played,” closer Taylor Rogers said Thursday, pointing to the 2010 ALDS and not including the 2017 wild-card game.