{"id":905132,"date":"2026-09-22T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905132\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:32:09","slug":"gilbert-powers-giants-past-twins-to-break-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905132\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert powers Giants past Twins to break slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Drew Gilbert homered and hit a two-run single, leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/san-francisco-giants\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"san-francisco-giants\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> past the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/minnesota-twins\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"minnesota-twins\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> 5-2 on Monday night to snap a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Harris singled in a pair of runs for San Francisco in the first inning and Gilbert did the same in the second before leading off the fifth with his 11th homer.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks Lee homered to begin the fourth against Giants starter Blade Tidwell, who exited after one more batter because of elbow discomfort. He will undergo tests Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tidwell was coming off his first win with the Giants and second of his career last time out at St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Beck (1-0) relieved and pitched 2 2\/3 scoreless innings for the win. Trent Harris worked the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Davidson had his first career hit and stolen base in the first \u2014 becoming the first Giants player to get a hit and steal a base in his major league debut since Red Tramback on Sept. 15, 1940.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants opened their season-ending homestand, which concludes against the rival Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend, with their third victory in 10 games. They were swept by the two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers last weekend in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Rodr\u00edguez homered in the eighth for the Twins.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota right-hander Zebby Matthews (9-11) struck out nine \u2014 his second-most this season behind 10 on July 31 at Seattle \u2014 and didn&#8217;t walk a batter. He allowed five runs and eight hits over five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Twins RHP Taj Bradley (11-6, 3.81 ERA) pitches the middle game of the series Tuesday night opposite Giants RHP Anthony Molina (3-1, 4.18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Drew Gilbert homered and hit a two-run single, leading the San Francisco Giants past the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-905132","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\/905132","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=905132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}