{"id":119969,"date":"2017-09-28T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=119969"},"modified":"2017-09-28T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:08:13","slug":"twins-clinch-playoff-spot-continue-unexpected-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/28\/twins-clinch-playoff-spot-continue-unexpected-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins clinch playoff spot, continue unexpected turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_119972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119972\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/22045782_10155723362534841_2562803480903432290_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119972\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/22045782_10155723362534841_2562803480903432290_n.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota Twins players. (Photo: Minnesota Twins\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/22045782_10155723362534841_2562803480903432290_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/22045782_10155723362534841_2562803480903432290_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/22045782_10155723362534841_2562803480903432290_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minnesota Twins players. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Twins\/photos\/a.10151942005359841.1073741843.45991614840\/10155723362534841\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Twins\/\">Minnesota Twins\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 \u00a0The Minnesota Twins became the first team to make the playoffs after losing at least 100 games the previous season, clinching an AL wild-card berth on Wednesday night when the Los Angeles Angles lost 6-4 in 10 innings at Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins couldn&#8217;t secure their first spot in the post-season by themselves, losing 4-2 to the Indians, but that hardly mattered for a team that has overcome adversity and defied expectations while joining October&#8217;s elite.<\/p>\n<p>They won only 59 games a year ago, and it seemed as if the young Twins would be lucky to be competitive when the season began. But they got hot in August and haven&#8217;t looked back in becoming the 13th team \u2014 \u00a0and first since the 2009 Seattle Mariners \u2014 \u00a0to go from 100-plus losses to a winning record the following season.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two hours after losing, the Twins began a celebration that seemed unimaginable two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota will play at either Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park in the wild-card game Tuesday night. Boston holds a three-game lead over New York in the AL East race.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 \u00a0The Minnesota Twins became the first team to make the playoffs after losing at least 100 games the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":119972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[25120,20699],"class_list":["post-119969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-al-wild-card","tag-minnesota-twins","mauthors-tom-withers","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}