{"id":907059,"date":"2026-07-02T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/907059\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:05:15","slug":"offense-stays-hot-as-twins-take-series-finale-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/907059\/","title":{"rendered":"Offense stays hot as Twins take series finale in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Twins have won three consecutive road series for the first time May of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Houston\u2019s Joey Loperfido and Nick Allen had RBI singles in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<ol class=\"breadcrumb\"><strong>For Related Stories:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/minnesota-twins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/twins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twins<\/a><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taj Bradley struck out 11 to tie his career high, Josh Bell, Kody Clemens and Luke Keaschall homered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":907060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,1287,358,57673,3187],"class_list":["post-907059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-texas","tag-twins","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116849353525764725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907059","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=907059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}