{"id":43199,"date":"2014-04-10T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=43199"},"modified":"2014-04-10T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T20:28:43","slug":"as-down-twins-6-1-sweep-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=43199","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s Down Twins 6-1, Sweep Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Dan Straily pitched three-hit ball for seven innings and Sam Fuld hit a rare home run to help the Oakland Athletics complete a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 6-1 victory Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Straily (1-1) gave up one run and struck out five. The Athletics have gone nine straight games to start the season without their starter allowing more than three runs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fuld hit just his sixth homer in 738 career plate appearances and singled. Josh Donaldson also hit a two-run homer.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Pelfrey (0-2) gave up six runs on nine hits and four walks in five innings. The Twins have had only one quality start in their first nine games.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brian Dozier hit his third home run of the season for Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Dan Straily pitched three-hit ball for seven innings and Sam Fuld hit a rare home run to help the Oakland Athletics complete a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 6-1 victory Thursday. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Straily (1-1) gave up one run and struck out five. The [&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-43199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43199","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=43199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43201,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43199\/revisions\/43201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}