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The Rangers and Rays have a bit of postseason history, with the two teams meeting up back in both 2010 and 2011. Texas came out on top in both series
The bigger celebration occurred a few hours later when Jhoan Duran pitched a hitless ninth to close the first victory for the Twins in the playoffs since Oct. 5, 2004, and vanquish the longest postseason skid by number of games in major North American professional sports.
It's the first NL Division Series for the franchise since 2017.
The Twins and Blue Jays last postseason meeting was in 1991 when they met in the ALCS, the Twins won the series in five games and went on to win the World Series that year.