Cleveland Guardians at Tampa Bay Rays

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Cleveland Guardians

69-70, 34-37 Away

Final
2 - 4

Tampa Bay Rays

71-69, 38-33 Home

Rays beat the Guardians 4-2 and extend their winning streak to a season-best 7 games

Cleveland Guardians vs. Tampa Bay Rays: Game Highlights

Carson Williams also drove in two runs for Tampa Bay, which won its season-high seventh straight game and for the 10th time in 12 games.

With the victory, the Rays move within two games of idle Seattle in the race for the final AL wild-card spot — the closest they have been to a playoff spot since July 26, when they were 1 1/2 games back.

Pepiot (11-10) walked two in the victory and a combined no-hit bid was spoiled after 5 2/3 innings when José Ramírez singled off Bryan Baker.

Pete Fairbanks allowed consecutive homers by Ramírez and Kyle Manzardo in the top of the ninth before getting the next three outs to close out the victory.

Junior Caminero, Brandon Lowe, and Jake Mangum also had hits for Tampa Bay.

Logan Allen (7-11) allowed six hits and four runs with four strikeouts in the loss for the Guardians, who have lost four of their last five games and slipped 3 1/2 games back in the wild-card race.

Key moment Brandon Lowe made a sprawling grab with two outs in the top of the fourth, preventing Bo Naylor's line drive from reaching the outfield and stranding the potential tying run.

Key stat Pepiot allowed one or fewer hits in his third straight start of five or more innings, joining Dylan Cease as the only pitchers in MLB history to accomplish the feat.

Up next Guardians RHP Gavin Williams (9-5, 3.26) faces Tampa Bay LHP Ian Seymour (3-0, 2.97) in the second game of the four-game series Friday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Arias grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Hedges grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Martínez struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Manzardo homered to right (376 feet).
	9th Inning	Ramírez homered to right (367 feet).
	9th Inning	Fairbanks relieved Uceta

Statistics

CLE		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	0
0	Ground Balls	0
13	Strikeouts	7
2	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
3	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
30	At Bats	32
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
9	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	0
0	Fly Balls	0
0	Caught Stealing	0
147	Pitches	137
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
9	Total Bases	8
34	Plate Appearances	35
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	0
1.7	Runs Created	2.3
.100	Batting Average	.250
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.300	Slugging Percentage	.250
.267	Secondary Average	.094
.206	On Base Percentage	.294
.506	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.544
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
1.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.4
17.0	Batter Rating	25.0
15.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.32	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.91
.200	Isolated Power	.000
0.15	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.29
.059	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.057
.167	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.156
4.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
66.0	MLB Rating	76.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0