{"id":223913,"date":"2021-04-21T07:51:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=223913"},"modified":"2021-04-21T07:51:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T12:51:49","slug":"twins-kepler-thielbar-missing-games-covid-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=223913","title":{"rendered":"Twins Kepler, Thielbar missing games, COVID issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Twins right fielder Max Kepler is among the club\u2019s positive cases for the coronavirus. Manager Rocco Baldelli announced Kepler\u2019s absence with COVID-19 ahead of a doubleheader against the Athletics. The scheduled opener of the series Monday was postponed, as were the Twins\u2019 final two games against the Angels in Anaheim over the weekend, because of the outbreak on the team. Left-hander Caleb Thielbar is also in quarantine because of contact tracing. Baldelli said Thielbar spent a significant amount of time around one of the positive players, but he expects the reliever may not miss as much time and \u201chis specifics are a little bit different than the other guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Twins right fielder Max Kepler is among the club\u2019s positive cases for the coronavirus. Manager Rocco Baldelli announced Kepler\u2019s absence with COVID-19 ahead of a doubleheader against the Athletics. The scheduled opener of the series Monday was postponed, as were the Twins\u2019 final two games [&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-223913","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\/223913","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=223913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223914,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223913\/revisions\/223914"}],"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=223913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}