{"id":275497,"date":"2023-09-11T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=275497"},"modified":"2023-09-11T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T13:08:00","slug":"mets-beat-twins-2-0-despite-14-ks-by-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=275497","title":{"rendered":"Mets beat Twins 2-0 despite 14 Ks by L\u00f3pez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 DJ Stewart hit a two-run double in the ninth inning and the New York Mets overcame a career-high 14 strikeouts by Minnesota starter Pablo L\u00f3pez to beat the Twins 2-0 on Sunday and avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00f3pez went eight innings for the Twins, who began the day with a 7 1\/2-game lead in the AL Central over Cleveland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewart doubled to right-center off reliever Griffin Jax (6-9), who took over for L\u00f3pez in the ninth. Francisco Lindor led off with a bloop double and Jeff McNeil was hit by a pitch \u2014 the third time a Mets batter was plunked in the game. Stewart connected on a full count two batters later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI knew he was a good pitcher, but he left one over the plate for me to hit,\u201d said Stewart, who returned Saturday after missing three games with lower back stiffness. \u201cI don\u2019t get that situation if (Lindor) doesn\u2019t hustle out of the box.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 DJ Stewart hit a two-run double in the ninth inning and the New York Mets overcame a career-high 14 strikeouts by Minnesota starter Pablo L\u00f3pez to beat the Twins 2-0 on Sunday and avoid a three-game sweep. L\u00f3pez went eight innings for the Twins, who began the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":272399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275497","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275498,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275497\/revisions\/275498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}