{"id":54152,"date":"2014-09-11T16:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54152"},"modified":"2014-09-11T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T21:58:04","slug":"tribe-tops-twins-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54152","title":{"rendered":"Tribe sweeps Twins"},"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\" alt=\"twinslogo\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>CLEVELAND (AP) &#8211; Corey Kluber came within two outs of his second straight complete game as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Minnesota Twins 8-2 Thursday in the first game of a doubleheader.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kluber (15-9) allowed two runs and struck out seven in 8 1-3 innings in becoming the Indians&#8217; first 15-game winner since Cliff Lee went 22-3 in 2008.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kluber dominated the Twins after allowing a first-inning run, retiring 18 of 19 before giving up two singles in the eighth. The right-hander worked out of trouble, but was pulled after allowing an RBI single to Trevor Plouffe in the ninth, the third hit of the inning.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yan Gomes drove in three runs with a solo homer in the second and a two-run double in the third. Carlos Santana belted a two-run homer in the first and Cleveland broke the game open with a four-run third.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Indians (75-69) trail first-place Kansas City by five games in the AL Central and are four games behind Detroit in the crowded race for the second wild-card spot.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kyle Gibson (11-11) lasted only three innings, allowing seven runs and seven hits, including two homers.<\/p>\n<p>In game two, Cleveland shuts out Minnesota 2-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) &#8211; Corey Kluber came within two outs of his second straight complete game as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Minnesota Twins 8-2 Thursday in the first game of a doubleheader. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kluber (15-9) allowed two runs and struck out seven in 8 1-3 innings in becoming 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-54152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54152","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=54152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54160,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54152\/revisions\/54160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}