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Saturday’s Twins-A’s game postponed due to bad weather: Full details and makeup date

There will be no baseball played today at Target Field.
Josh Hill
Josh Hill

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Saturday’s Twins vs. Athletics game has been rained out and moved to Sunday. / Adam Bettcher/GettyImages

For the third time this season, the Minnesota Twins will have to wait to play baseball. Saturday’s game against the Oakland Athletics was rained out and postponed until Sunday when it will be played as part of a doubleheader.

It’s the first time in over a month that the Twins have needed to push a game and the second time it’s happened at Target Field. Back in April a game against the Cleveland Guardians was rained out and moved to August. The other game that got pushed was in Detroit, and that one ended up being a blessing in disguise.

That game in Detroit required the Twins to call up a pitcher to start one of the doubleheader games, and that’s ended up being Simeon Woods Richardson. He’s been a fixture in the rotation ever since, most recently starting Friday night’s win over the A’s.

Bailey Ober was scheduled to pitch on Saturday but it’s unclear if he’ll get bumped or if the Twins will pitch him tomorrow in addition to Chris Paddack.

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Rather than play on Saturday, the Twins moved the game to 6:10pm on Sunday. Originally Minnesota had a game scheduled for 1:10pm, and that won’t be impacted as far as a start time by this shift.

There could be some lineup changes, though, since the Twins are unlikely to play the same group of guys back-to-back. 

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Josh Hill

Josh Hill

Josh Hill is a Content Director for the FanSided Network, and was the site expert at Puckett's Pond for two years. Previously he was Editorial Director of FanSided.com from 2018 until 2022, and has worked as a content creator covering has covering sports, music, music, and television for FanSided since 2010. His work has been featured on Sports Illustrated, FOX Sports, and Yahoo! Sports, and his work covering the Minnesota Twins has been featured on Puckett's since 201. He's a lifelong Twins fans, who grew up watching his favorite player Doug Mientkiewicz and will always have a special place in his heart for Homer Hankies and Dome Dogs.