October 2, 2002 - MPR’s Jon Gordon breaks down Game 1 of American League Division Series game, matching the Minnesota Twins against Oakland A’s. Twins' post-season inexperience was on garish display early in the game, but the team is savoring innings four through nine, during which it battered the vaunted Oakland pitching staff and silenced the A's bats for a 7-5 victory.
October 3, 2002 - MPR’s Jon Gordon provides a summary of Game 2 of the ALDS, in which the Oakland Athletics beat the Minnesota Twins 9-1.
October 3, 2002 - MPR's William Wilcoxen previews playoff baseball’s return to Minnesota as the Minnesota Twins host the Oakland Athletics in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series. The last post-season baseball game at the Metrodome was the Twins' Game 7 victory in the 1991 World Series. This year's team hopes to recapture some of the Twins' postseason Metrodome magic.
October 4, 2002 - Well, there is one epidemic that the state doesn't need any statistics to confirm... Twins Fever. 55,000 baseball fans will fill the Metrodome for Game 3 of playoff series against Oakland A’s. If previous post season games are any indication, the noise those fans make will give the Twins a big advantage.
October 7, 2002 - What do MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and the Oakland A's have in common? Both failed to eliminate the Minnesota Twins in 2002. Behind a dominating performance from starting pitcher Brad Radke, the Twins beat A’s 5-4 in the fifth and deciding game of the divisional playoffs. The Twins now advance to the American League Championship Series.
October 7, 2002 - An excerpt of Garrison Keillor speaking about his serious case of "Twins Fever" during during A Prairie Home Companion show.
October 7, 2002 - Lavelle Neal, who covers the Twins for the Star Tribune, talks about the Minnesota Twins winning American League Division Series against Oakland A’s…and what lies ahead in American League Championship Series against Anaheim Angels.
October 8, 2002 - Morning Edition’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Terry Smith, who does play-by-play and color commentary for the Anaheim Angels on KLAC in southern California. Smith details what has made the Angels so successful this season.
October 8, 2002 - Gordon Wittenmyer, who covers the Minnesota Twins for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, provides commentary of American League Championship Series. He says its difficult to predict how the series will play out.
October 8, 2002 - MPR's William Wilcoxen reports from outside the Metrodome, where crowds are gathering for Game 1 against the Anaheim Angels in the American League Championship Series.