{"id":4541,"date":"2012-09-26T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:53:00","slug":"yanks-defeat-twins-extend-a-l-east-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4541","title":{"rendered":"Yanks Defeat Twins, Extend A.L. East Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1317\" title=\"twinslogo\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP Sept 26, 2012) &#8211; C.C. Sabathia struck out 10 batters over eight innings for New York to help the Yankees stretch their AL East lead to two games over Baltimore by beating the Minnesota Twins 8-2 on Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Orioles host Toronto later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees visit the Blue Jays for four games starting Thursday. Baltimore, after an off day, plays Boston at home this weekend.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sabathia (14-6) threw 89 of his 118 pitches for strikes.<br \/>\nRobinson Cano hit a two-run double and Curtis Granderson added a<br \/>\ntwo-run triple during a six-run third inning against Brian Duensing<br \/>\n(4-11), and Sabathia took care of the rest.<\/p>\n<p>The burly lefty gave up six hits, two runs and one walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP Sept 26, 2012) &#8211; C.C. Sabathia struck out 10 batters over eight innings for New York to help the Yankees stretch their AL East lead to two games over Baltimore by beating the Minnesota Twins 8-2 on Wednesday. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Orioles host Toronto later Wednesday. The Yankees visit [&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-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","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=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}