{"id":119652,"date":"2017-04-13T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119652"},"modified":"2017-04-13T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:09:55","slug":"twins-avoid-sweep-defeat-tigers-thurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119652","title":{"rendered":"Twins avoid sweep defeat Tigers, Thurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92812\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Max Kepler, Miguel Sano and Robbie Grossman all homered for Minnesota, and the Twins took advantage of an uncharacteristically wild outing by Jordan Zimmermann in an 11-5 rout of the Detroit Tigers on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmermann (1-1) allowed five runs and four hits in 4 2\/3 innings, walking a career-high five. Anibal Sanchez was even worse for the Tigers in relief, allowing six runs in 1 1\/3 innings and letting two of Zimmermann&#8217;s runners score on Kepler&#8217;s three-run homer in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Grossman hit a two-run shot in the third, and Sano connected for a three-run homer in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Hughes (2-0) allowed four runs and five hits in 5 2\/3 innings. Justin Haley worked the final 3 1\/3 innings to earn his first career save, striking out six.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins avoided a three-game sweep at Detroit and pulled even with the Tigers atop the AL Central.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Cabrera and Justin Upton each hit their first home run of the season for the Tigers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Max Kepler, Miguel Sano and Robbie Grossman all homered for Minnesota, and the Twins took advantage of an uncharacteristically wild outing by Jordan Zimmermann in an 11-5 rout of the Detroit Tigers on Thursday afternoon. Zimmermann (1-1) allowed five runs and four hits in 4 2\/3 innings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119655,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119652\/revisions\/119655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}