{"id":77977,"date":"2015-07-29T16:09:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=77977"},"modified":"2015-07-29T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:09:25","slug":"pirates-sweep-twins-10-4-win-wed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=77977","title":{"rendered":"Pirates sweep Twins, 10-4 win, Wed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/twinsshake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-52135\" alt=\"twinsshake\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/twinsshake.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Andrew McCutchen hit a home run and turned an RBI single into race around the bases while Minnesota made two errors in a five-run sixth inning, helping Francisco Liriano and the Pittaburgh Pirates beat the Twins 10-4 Wednesday for a two-game sweep.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jung Ho Kang homered for the second straight day for the Pirates, after going deep for the go-ahead run in the ninth the night before. McCutchen&#8217;s two-run, two-strike, two-out drive off Ervin Santana (2-1) in the fifth inning tied the game at 3, and the Twins unraveled in the sixth.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One run scored on a wild pitch. Then Santana walked two straight batters. Starling Marte hit a sacrifice fly, and McCutchen hit a sharp single that bounced in front of left fielder Eddie Rosario. The ball skipped past him to the warning track, allowing another run to score and McCutchen to reach third.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The slow-rolling relay throw scooted underneath Eduardo Nunez&#8217;s glove for another error that allowed McCutchen to score &#8211; but not before he collided with Nunez, contact that was hard enough to knock them both to the ground and cue the blooper-tape soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Andrew McCutchen hit a home run and turned an RBI single into race around the bases while Minnesota made two errors in a five-run sixth inning, helping Francisco Liriano and the Pittaburgh Pirates beat the Twins 10-4 Wednesday for a two-game sweep. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jung Ho Kang [&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-77977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77977","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=77977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77978,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77977\/revisions\/77978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}