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.

While the Twins were regular season's best defensive team, they took the field with what seemed like a bad case of the jitters, committing three errors in the first two innings and falling behind 5-1 to A's pitcher Tim Hudson.