{"id":26355,"date":"2013-08-29T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26355"},"modified":"2013-08-29T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:07:33","slug":"chen-royals-down-twins-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26355","title":{"rendered":"Chen, Royals Down Twins 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP Aug 29, 2013) &#8211; Bruce Chen bounced back with a solid start and the Kansas City Royals completed a sweep and won their fifth straight game, beating Minnesota 3-1 Thursday to hand the Twins their fifth loss in a row.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Royals took all three games at Target Field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chen (6-2) gave up one run and five hits in 5 2-3 innings. In his past two starts, he allowed 13 runs in nine innings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Greg Holland earned his 36th save in 38 chances.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alcides Escobar, Chris Getz and Alex Gordon hit RBI singles for the Royals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brian Dozier homered for Minnesota, which has totaled just six runs during its losing skid.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Samuel Deduno (8-8) allowed three runs in three innings before leaving because of soreness in his right shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP Aug 29, 2013) &#8211; Bruce Chen bounced back with a solid start and the Kansas City Royals completed a sweep and won their fifth straight game, beating Minnesota 3-1 Thursday to hand the Twins their fifth loss in a row. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Royals took all three games [&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-26355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355","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=26355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26357,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355\/revisions\/26357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}