{"id":741112,"date":"2026-07-02T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/741112\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:57:14","slug":"twins-down-astros-to-claim-series-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/741112\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins down Astros to claim series | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Houston, TX) &#8212; The Minnesota Twins got five impressive innings from starting and winning pitcher Taj Bradley and beat the Astros in Houston last night 8-3. Bradley struck out 11 Houston hitters over his five innings of work, walking three and allowing only four hits. He improved to 7-3 on the season. Twins designated hitter Josh Bell got things started with a tape-measure two-run home run in the first inning, giving Bradley an early 2-0 lead. Second baseman Kody Clemens added a three-run shot in the second inning, and Minnesota never looked back. Luke Keaschall hit a solo homer in the eighth inning. The Twins improved to 42-46 and sit in third place in the A-L Central. Minnesota is two-and-a-half games back for the final A-L Wild Card spot. The Astros fell to 43-46. The Twins are off tonight and open a three-game series at Yankee Stadium tomorrow night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Houston, TX) &#8212; The Minnesota Twins got five impressive innings from starting and winning pitcher Taj Bradley and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,3541,461,413,822,60,4,763,5000],"class_list":["post-741112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-josh-bell","tag-kody-clemens","tag-luke-keaschall","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-taj-bradley","tag-yankee-stadium"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116850028979994330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}