{"id":775469,"date":"2026-07-02T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775469\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:54:16","slug":"taj-bradley-fans-11-in-minnesota-twins-win-over-houston-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775469\/","title":{"rendered":"Taj Bradley fans 11 in Minnesota Twins\u2019 win over Houston Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Taj Bradley<\/a> struck out 11 to tie his career high, Josh Bell<\/a>, Kody Clemens<\/a> and Luke Keaschall<\/a> homered and the Minnesota Twins<\/a> beat the Houston Astros<\/a> 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<\/a> scored from third base when Isaac Paredes<\/a> 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<\/a> 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<\/a> (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<\/a> and Nick Allen<\/a> had RBI singles in the sixth. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/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

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/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":2,"featured_media":775470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-775469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}