Article: Blue Jays hope Twins will `knuckle' under

MINNEAPOLIS Mind games began during workouts Monday for the start of the American League playoffs tonight, but the Twins paid no mind.

The East Division champion Toronto Blue Jays will follow knuckleballer Tom Candiotti (13-13, 2.65 ERA) in the opener against the West Division kings with hard-throwing rookie Juan Guzman tomorrow, tricky left-hander Jim Key on Friday and Todd Stottlemyre on Saturday.

"I rememeber what it was like when we would go to Texas and Charlie Hough was pitching," Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said of the knuckleballer who is with the White Sox.

"They'd use Hough in the first game of the series, and it would mess up our hitters for the whole series.

"I'm ...

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