{"id":52123,"date":"2014-08-13T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=52123"},"modified":"2014-08-13T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T21:43:10","slug":"twins-down-astros-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=52123","title":{"rendered":"Twins down Astros 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/willinghamjosh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22276\" alt=\"Minnesota Twins v Cleveland Indians\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/willinghamjosh-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; Joe Mauer homered to break a scoreless game in the sixth inning and Kyle Gibson gave up one run in 7 2-3 innings to propel the Minnesota Twins to a 3-1 win over the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mauer hit a 2-2 pitch into the right field bullpen off Brett Oberholtzer (4-8) to make it 1-0. He extended his hitting streak to 15 games with a first inning single.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gibson (11-9) scattered six hits, striking out four, and allowing one earned run.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Minnesota extended the lead to 3-0 in the eighth inning when Kennys Vargas hit a two-run single into the left field gap off reliever Josh Fields.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chris Carter singled in a run for Houston.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glen Perkins pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn his 30th save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; Joe Mauer homered to break a scoreless game in the sixth inning and Kyle Gibson gave up one run in 7 2-3 innings to propel the Minnesota Twins to a 3-1 win over the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mauer hit a 2-2 pitch [&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-52123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52123","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=52123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52124,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52123\/revisions\/52124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}