HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Taj Bradley struck out 11 to tie his career high, Josh Bell, Kody Clemens and Luke Keaschall homered and the Minnesota Twins beat the Houston Astros 8-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Bradley (7-3) allowed a run and four hits and walked four in five innings. After Jose Altuve scored from third base when Isaac Paredes grounded into a double play in the first inning, Bradley recorded 10 consecutive outs by strikeout.<\/p>\n
Bell has a career-high 16-game road hitting streak, the longest active streak of its kind in the majors. Trevor Larnach went 3 for 5 with a double and a two-run single.<\/p>\n
The Twins have won three consecutive road series for the first time May of 2025.<\/p>\n
After Larnach doubled to lead off the game against Tatsuya Imai (5-4) Bell hit a two-out, two-run homer. Clemens hit a 399-foot shot to make it 5-1 in the second.<\/p>\n
Astros second baseman Raynel Delgado left the game due to a dislocated right pinky finger after a groundball ricocheted off second base and hit his bare hand in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Houston\u2019s Joey Loperfido and Nick Allen had RBI singles in the sixth.<\/p>\n
The Twins open a three-game series against in New York against the Yankees on Friday. The Astros host Tampa Bay on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Taj Bradley struck out 11 to tie his career high, Josh Bell, Kody Clemens and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":906651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,20168,36756,28438,65951,33091,307490,164747,184754,223492,223490,289007,326423,324435,286667,7202,7203,69678,178619,358,33088,366870,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-906650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-joey-loperfido","tag-jose-altuve","tag-josh-bell","tag-kody-clemens","tag-luke-keaschall","tag-nick-allen","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40793-ap-minnesota-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-product-40822-ap-wisconsin-sports-only","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-taj-bradley","tag-tatsuya-imai","tag-texas","tag-trevor-larnach","tag-twins-astros-score","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}