{"id":17648,"date":"2025-07-24T04:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17648\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T04:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:11:12","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-beat-minnesota-twins-4-3-on-freddie-freemans-clutch-two-run-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17648\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers beat Minnesota Twins 4-3 on Freddie Freeman&#8217;s clutch two-run single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Jax threw two quick strikes to Freeman, too, but couldn\u2019t finish him off. The 2024 World Series MVP eventually put the ball in play, just a step out of Bader\u2019s reach, and the Twins, on the verge of winning a series at Dodger Stadium for the first time in their history, instead have now lost six consecutive road series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating. I just feel like that\u2019s kind of a representation of my season so far,\u201d said Jax, now 1-5 on the season. \u201cIt\u2019s so close, but I\u2019m just not putting all the pieces together to get that consistency day in, day out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Walking Ruiz, who had entered the game as a pinch-runner and was forced to bat because the Dodgers had used their entire bench, was the glaring mistake, one borne of \u201cme trying to be too careful,\u201d Jax said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Baldelli said his confidence in the reliever wasn\u2019t shaken by the Dodgers\u2019 sudden rally, and he was grateful that the team has continued to compete despite its up-and-down results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jax threw two quick strikes to Freeman, too, but couldn\u2019t finish him off. The 2024 World Series MVP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-17648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}