{"id":129270,"date":"2017-09-20T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129270"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:10:38","slug":"yanks-increase-wildcard-lead-dump-twins-11-3-wed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129270","title":{"rendered":"Yanks increase wildcard lead, dump Twins 11-3 Wed."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79717\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yankeeslogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge hit his AL-leading 45th home run and topped 100 RBIs, Didi Gregorius surpassed Derek Jeter for the most home runs by a Yankees shortstop and New York beat the Minnesota Twins 11-3 Wednesday for a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>The game was briefly halted in the fifth inning when a foul ball down the third-base line off the bat of Todd Frazier struck a young girl, who was carried out of the stands and taken to a hospital. The protective netting at Yankee Stadium ends at the home plate side of each dugout, and the team said in July it is &#8220;seriously exploring&#8221; extending the netting for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees, who have won 10 of 12, began the day three games behind AL East-leading Boston. They opened a seven-game advantage over the Twins for the top AL wild card with 10 games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota started 1\u00bd games ahead of the Los Angeles Angels for the league&#8217;s last playoff berth. The Twins have lost five of six and were outscored 18-6 in the three-game series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Aaron Judge hit his AL-leading 45th home run and topped 100 RBIs, Didi Gregorius surpassed Derek Jeter for the most home runs by a Yankees shortstop and New York beat the Minnesota Twins 11-3 Wednesday for a three-game sweep. The game was briefly halted in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129270","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=129270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129271,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129270\/revisions\/129271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}