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Dish: Twins hang tough despite long road trip
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

One more road game. One more airplane flight.

And then the Minnesota Twins' odyssey will be finished, with the no-flash, all-substance club thankful to be in good standing after being on the road for more than two weeks and not playing particularly well.

The Twins on Thursday will finish a series at Toronto, ending a 15-day stretch during which they flew on airplanes for about 6,200 miles to play 14 road games in the Eastern and Pacific time zones. It is the Twins' longest trip since » Full Column

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