twins win!

i am sure those who are following the postseason so far are aware that the twins not only ended their consecutive games lost streak at 19 with a win in game 1 of the wild card series against the blue jays, they also advanced within the postseason for the first time since 2002 with their win in game 2.

the last time the twins won a postseason series was in 2002 when they beat the a's in the alds which was the first round back then. that was their first postseason appearance since they won the 1991 world series, by the way. by beating the a's, they moved on to the alcs against the eventual world series champion angels. and game 2 of that series was the last time i attended a postseason game in person. until yesterday.

a friend reached out and invited me to game 2 at target field and it was a blast. the crowd was in to the game from first pitch through the last, and was metrodome-level loud when vladimir guerrero jr got picked off of second base at a critical point in the game.  i forgot to screenshot my ticket stub and the ballpark app isn't good about retaining that sort of data, which stinks.  

i did take a couple of photos, including this one of sonny gray pitching in the top of the 1st

but mostly i just enjoyed the game.

i did record the final out, and here's an image grab from my video just after jhoan duran struck out daulton varsho 

fans were pretty quick to celebrate the win!

of course, topps created a card that i will add to my "games i've attended in person" mini-collection once they are printed and shipped - here's the screenshot from topps.com 

truth be told i would have been just fine with a blue jay win, but that would have put me in a very small minority here in the land of 10,000 lakes.