Twins Notes: Bunts, Walks, Johan, and ThomaThe Twins narrowly missed posting the highest batting average with runners in scoring position by any team during the past 25 years, fading somewhat down the stretch to finish six points behind the Rockies' mark of .311 from 1996. However, they did manage to tie the all-time record for most bunt hits in a season with 68, which equals the Dodgers' total from 1992. Carlos Gomez led all of baseball with 30 bunt hits and Alexi Casilla ranked second in the league with 16 despite playing just 98 games.Early on Gomez was on pace to shatter Brett Butler's single-season record for bunt hits, but ended up finishing a dozen shy of the mark and will have to settle for becoming just the fifth player since 1959 to bunt for at least 30 hits in a year. Along with the league-leading totals from Gomez...
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