{"id":40109,"date":"2017-08-11T05:59:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T05:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=40109"},"modified":"2017-08-11T05:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T05:59:45","slug":"mauer-buxton-lead-twins-over-brewers-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/mlb\/mauer-buxton-lead-twins-over-brewers-7-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Mauer, Buxton lead Twins over Brewers 7-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Mauer, Buxton lead Twins over Brewers 7-2<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Byron Buxton and Joe Mauer each had three singles and the Minnesota Twins beat the Milwaukee Brewers for the fourth consecutive game, 7-2 on Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The Twins, who have won five straight and are 7-3 in August, had 12 hits \u2014 11 singles and a double \u2014 to sweep a home-and-home, four-game set with Milwaukee. The Brewers are 7-17 since July 16 and fell into third place in the NL Central with the loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Rookie Alan Busenitz (1-0) pitched 2 2\/3 innings of relief for his first major league win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Milwaukee starter Zach Davies (13-6) allowed seven runs, six earned, a career-high 11 hits and two walks while striking out three in 5 2\/3 innings. The right-hander struggled after allowing just three earned runs and 19 hits over 28 2\/3 innings his past four starts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Mauer came into the game in a 1-for-20 slump. He went 3 for 5 with singles in the third, fourth and sixth innings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2017\/08\/10\/mauer-buxton-lead-twins-over-brewers-7-2\/104491276\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/mlb\/mauer-buxton-lead-twins-over-brewers-7-2.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauer, Buxton lead Twins over Brewers 7-2 Byron Buxton and Joe Mauer each had three singles and the Minnesota Twins beat the Milwaukee Brewers for the fourth consecutive game, 7-2 on Thursday night. The Twins, who have won five straight and are 7-3 in August, had 12 hits \u2014 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[929],"tags":[39291,39290,39287,39288,39289],"class_list":["post-40109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-twins-mlb-draft-2017","tag-twins-mlb-record","tag-twins-mlb-schedule","tag-twins-mlb-score","tag-twins-mlb-standings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}