| 1987 Minnesota Twins | ||
|---|---|---|
| World Series Champions American League Champions American League West Champions | ||
| League | American League | |
| Division | West | |
| Ballpark | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome | |
| City | Minneapolis | |
| Record | 85–77 (.525) | |
| Divisional place | 1st | |
| Owners | Carl Pohlad | |
| General managers | Andy MacPhail | |
| Managers | Tom Kelly | |
| Television | KMSP-TV (John Rooney, John Gordon, Harmon Killebrew) Twinsvision (Dick Bremer, Frank Quilici) | |
| Radio | 830 WCCO AM (Herb Carneal, John Gordon) | |
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The 1987 Minnesota Twins won the World Series for the first time since moving from Washington in 1961, the second time that the franchise won the World Series (the Washington Senators won it in 1924). Having won only 85 games during the 1987 regular season, they won the World Series with the then-fewest regular season wins since Major League Baseball expanded to a 162-game season in 1961, and the fewest of any team since the 1889 New York Giants (excluding the strike-shortened 1981 and the COVID-19 pandemic-shortened 2020 seasons and later surpassed by the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals who won 83 games that season). They also became the first team to win the World Series despite being outscored by their opponents in the regular season, having scored 786 runs and allowed 806.
Tom Kelly became the fifth manager to win a World Series in his first full season on the job, and one of seven total, as of 2023, to accomplish the feat.[1]
- ^ Simon, Andrew; Kelly, Matt. "Rookie managers who won the World Series". MLB. Retrieved January 13, 2020.