{"id":144486,"date":"2018-05-08T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=144486"},"modified":"2018-05-08T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T21:09:16","slug":"twins-win-7-1-over-cards-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=144486","title":{"rendered":"Twins win, 7-1 over Cards, Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-136139\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Twinspatch-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Jake Odorizzi pitched five strong innings and Eduardo Escobar had a two-run home run as the Minnesota Twins won their season-high fifth straight game with a 7-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The win caps a two-game series sweep for the Twins, who have won 14 of their last 17 games against National League teams.<\/p>\n<p>Odorizzi (3-2) allowed just two hits and one run, a homer by St. Louis&#8217; Jose Martinez in the first inning. The right-hander combined with three relievers to retire the final 18 batters of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Martinez (3-2) saw his stretch of six straight starts allowing one or fewer runs end. The right-hander allowed four runs in five innings, with two of the runs unearned on a day when St. Louis matched its season worst with three errors.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals had just two hits in the loss and six hits combined in the two games against the Twins. St. Louis has now lost two in a row after a season-best five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Escobar had two of Minnesota&#8217;s 10 hits. Robbie Grossman had a two-run double in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Jake Odorizzi pitched five strong innings and Eduardo Escobar had a two-run home run as the Minnesota Twins won their season-high fifth straight game with a 7-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday afternoon. The win caps a two-game series sweep for the Twins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144486","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\/144486","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=144486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144503,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144486\/revisions\/144503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}