{"id":465495,"date":"2023-10-12T02:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465495"},"modified":"2023-10-12T02:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T06:42:10","slug":"astros-edge-out-twins-3-2-in-game-4-to-secure-place-in-alcs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/astros-edge-out-twins-3-2-in-game-4-to-secure-place-in-alcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros edge out Twins 3-2 in Game 4 to secure place in ALCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros came out on top against the Minnesota Twins 3-2 in a hard-fought match in Game 4 of the playoffs to secure a place in the ALCS on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What happens when Twins fans ask for Houston: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/883A8rpMjX\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/883A8rpMjX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q6uVtlpW3u\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q6uVtlpW3u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Astros (@astros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astros\/status\/1712284990900228100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was another memorable night for Jose Abreu, who homered for a third time in two games, which proved sufficient to lift Houston to their 7th straight ALCS by eliminating the Twins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE GOLDEN ERA.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ready2Reign?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Ready2Reign<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h1MdoER5eM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/h1MdoER5eM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Astros (@astros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astros\/status\/1712290250003825062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jose Urquidy shone with another solid performance, withstanding home runs by Royce Lewis in the first and Edouard Julien in the sixth before handing the ball to the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Hector Neris and Bryan Abreu combined for five strikeouts over 2 1\/3 hitless innings. Meanwhile, Ryan Pressly struck out the side in the ninth for the save. He froze Max Kepler with a full-count fastball to wrap it up, leaving former Astros star Carlos Correa on deck.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros will face in-state rival Texas in Game 1 of the ALCS on Sunday in a highly anticipated contest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_44284\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fs_gTlOZbY0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/fs_gTlOZbY0\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros came out on top against the Minnesota Twins 3-2 in a hard-fought match in Game 4 of the playoffs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16729,17601],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[18539,21723,18924],"acf":{"announce":"The Houston team ran riot and deservedly proceed","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465497,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465495\/revisions\/465497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465495"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465495"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}