{"id":129752,"date":"2017-09-28T15:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129752"},"modified":"2017-09-28T15:09:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:09:19","slug":"carrasco-strikes-out-14-indians-down-twins-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129752","title":{"rendered":"Carrasco strikes out 14, Indians down Twins 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92820\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TwinsTickets-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TwinsTickets-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TwinsTickets-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TwinsTickets-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TwinsTickets.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Carlos Carrasco struck out 14, Jason Kipnis and Roberto Perez hit two-run homers and the Cleveland Indians notched their 100th win, 5-2 over the understandably sluggish Twins. Minnesota clinched a wild-card berth hours earlier Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Carrasco (18-6) dominated a Minnesota lineup loaded with reserves and September call-ups. He allowed six hits \u2014 all singles \u2014 in 8 1-3 innings and improved to 3-0 with a 0.92 ERA against the Twins. The right-hander also moved into a tie for the league lead in wins with teammate Corey Kluber and Kansas City&#8217;s Jason Vargas.<\/p>\n<p>Kipnis, who has moved from second base to center field, connected for a two-run homer \u2014 his first since Aug. 18 \u2014 in the sixth inning off Trevor Hildenberger (3-3) as the Indians jumped to 31-4 since Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the third time Cleveland has won 100 games in a season. The last team to do it was Cleveland&#8217;s powerful 1995 squad, which lost to Atlanta in the World Series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Carlos Carrasco struck out 14, Jason Kipnis and Roberto Perez hit two-run homers and the Cleveland Indians notched their 100th win, 5-2 over the understandably sluggish Twins. Minnesota clinched a wild-card berth hours earlier Thursday. Carrasco (18-6) dominated a Minnesota lineup loaded with reserves and September call-ups. [&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-129752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129752","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=129752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129753,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129752\/revisions\/129753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}