{"id":79713,"date":"2015-08-19T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=79713"},"modified":"2015-08-19T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T20:00:22","slug":"yankees-sweep-twins-beat-minn-4-3-wed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=79713","title":{"rendered":"Yankees sweep Twins, beat Minn 4-3 Wed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yankeeslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79717\" alt=\"yankeeslogo\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yankeeslogo.jpg\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Rookie Greg Bird hit a pair of soaring two-run drives for his first major league homers, supporting an overpowering effort by Nathan Eovaldi and leading the New York Yankees to a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday for a three-game sweep.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eovaldi (13-2) did not allow a baserunner until Chris Hermann singled with one out in the sixth. Topping 100 mph on the scoreboard radar a handful of times, Eovaldi was touched for three runs in the inning when he lost command of his secondary pitches.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In seven electric innings, Eovaldi gave up four hits and struck out eight. He walked three in improving to 8-0 in his last 11 starts since June 20.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dellin Betances pitched a perfect ninth for his eighth save &#8211; first since July 1 &#8211; for the AL East leaders, winners of six of seven.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Rookie Greg Bird hit a pair of soaring two-run drives for his first major league homers, supporting an overpowering effort by Nathan Eovaldi and leading the New York Yankees to a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday for a three-game sweep.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eovaldi [&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-79713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713","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=79713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79718,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713\/revisions\/79718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}