{"id":860601,"date":"2026-08-16T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860601\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:04:13","slug":"bryan-de-la-cruz-hits-go-ahead-single-philadelphia-phillies-overcome-five-run-deficit-to-beat-minnesota-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860601\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan De La Cruz hits go-ahead single, Philadelphia Phillies overcome five-run deficit to beat Minnesota Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Bryan De La Cruz<\/a> hit a two-run single in the eighth inning and the Philadelphia Philles overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins<\/a> 7-5 on Sunday and sweep the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Alec Bohm<\/a> hit a three-run home run as Philadelphia won for the fifth time in seven games.<\/p>\n

Brooks Lee<\/a> hit a grand slam, and Kody Clemens<\/a> also homered for Minnesota, which fell to 4-10 in August.<\/p>\n

Down 5-0, Bohm hit a three-run home run as part of a four-run sixth inning.<\/p>\n

A bloop RBI single by Bohm made it 5-all in the eighth before a roller by De La Cruz snuck between first baseman Royce Lewis<\/a> and the bag to plate two more runs.<\/p>\n

Andrew Morris<\/a> (4-4) allowed all three eighth-inning runs. He\u2019d allowed two earned runs in 28 1\/3 innings over his previous 27 appearances since June 12.<\/p>\n

Orion Kerkering<\/a> (7-1) tossed a 1-2-3 seventh inning for the win. Jhoan Duran<\/a> earned his 26th save with a scoreless ninth.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia won the first two games of this series 7-1 and 9-1, but Andrew Painter<\/a>\u2019s control issues quickly put the Phillies in a hole.<\/p>\n

With two outs and nobody on in the first, Painter allowed two singles and walked a batter. Lee followed with a grand slam to right field, one pitch after he pulled a would-be grand slam just foul.<\/p>\n

Clemens homered in the third to make it 5-0.<\/p>\n

Phillies shortstop Trea Turner<\/a> was available but did not play. He left Saturday\u2019s game after fouling a ball off his right knee.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Phillies: Cristopher S\u00e1nchez (15-4, 2.54 ERA) starts Monday at home against Miami RHP Janson Junk<\/a> (6-7, 4.41).<\/p>\n

Twins: RHP Bailey Ober<\/a> (7-4, 4.64) starts Monday to kickoff a series against Braves LHP Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez (8-6, 2.96).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here <\/p>\n

Mike Cook, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Bryan De La Cruz hit a two-run single in the eighth inning and the Philadelphia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-860601","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\/860601","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=860601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}