{"id":275771,"date":"2023-09-19T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=275771"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:11:04","slug":"twins-lose-correa-aggravates-plantar-fasciitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=275771","title":{"rendered":"Twins Lose &#8211; Correa Aggravates Plantar Fasciitis."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; The Twins recently gave&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/621043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carlos Correa<\/a>&nbsp;two days off his feet to help him manage the plantar fasciitis pain in his left heel that has hampered him since May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But did it help? And, at this point, will any amount of rest be enough to get Correa closer to full strength for the postseason?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That seemingly remains up in the air after Correa had to exit Monday night\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/gameday\/twins-vs-reds\/2023\/09\/18\/716534\/final\/box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">7-3 loss<\/a>&nbsp;to the Reds with an aggravation of the plantar fasciitis due to a popup he chased into shallow left field in the first inning. With the Twins\u2019 magic number continuing to drop, figuring out that answer will have to be one of the club\u2019s foremost priorities ahead of the postseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/twins\/schedule\/2023-09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Games remaining<\/a><\/strong>: at CIN (2), vs. LAA (3), vs. OAK (3), at COL (3)<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/twins\/standings\/2023-09-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Standings update<\/a><\/strong>: The Twins (79-72) hold a seven-game lead on the Guardians (72-79) for the American League Central title. Cleveland clinched the tiebreaker by winning the season series, 7-6. Minnesota is currently the third-best division winner, meaning it would host a best-of-three Wild Card Series vs. the final Wild Card entrant starting on Oct. 3.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/glossary\/advanced-stats\/magic-number\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Magic number<\/a><\/strong>: 5 (for AL Central)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI felt a small little tweak there in the heel,\u201d Correa said. \u201cIt just got painful, real painful after that. Obviously, I\u2019ve been trying to manage this for a while now. Some days after are better than others. Today really felt like a great day until that moment. We\u2019ll see. I usually respond well a couple of days after.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; The Twins recently gave&nbsp;Carlos Correa&nbsp;two days off his feet to help him manage the plantar fasciitis pain in his left heel that has hampered him since May. But did it help? And, at this point, will any amount of rest be enough to get Correa closer to full [&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-275771","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\/275771","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=275771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275772,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275771\/revisions\/275772"}],"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=275771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}