{"id":129686,"date":"2017-09-28T07:21:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129686"},"modified":"2017-09-28T07:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:21:50","slug":"twins-capture-the-2nd-al-wildcard-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129686","title":{"rendered":"Twins capture the 2nd AL wildcard birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1312\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Twins became the first team to make the playoffs after losing at least 100 games the previous season, clinching an AL wild-card berth on Wednesday night when the Los Angeles Angles lost 6-4 in 10 innings at Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins couldn&#8217;t secure their first spot in the postseason by themselves, losing 4-2 to the Indians, but that hardly mattered for a team that has overcome adversity and defied expectations while joining October&#8217;s elite.<\/p>\n<p>They won only 59 games a year ago, and it seemed as if the young Twins would be lucky to be competitive when the season began. But they got hot in August and haven&#8217;t looked back in becoming the 13th team \u2014 and first since the 2009 Seattle Mariners \u2014 to go from 100-plus losses to a winning record the following season.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two hours after losing, the Twins began a celebration that seemed unimaginable two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota will play at either Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park in the wild-card game Tuesday night. Boston holds a three-game lead over New York in the AL East race.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Twins became the first team to make the playoffs after losing at least 100 games the previous season, clinching an AL wild-card berth on Wednesday night when the Los Angeles Angles lost 6-4 in 10 innings at Chicago. The Twins couldn&#8217;t secure their first spot [&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-129686","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\/129686","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=129686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129687,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129686\/revisions\/129687"}],"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=129686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}