Cleveland Guardians at Tampa Bay Rays

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Cleveland Guardians

70-70, 35-37 Away

Final
7 - 1

Tampa Bay Rays

71-70, 38-34 Home

Guardians end Rays' winning streak at 7 with 7-1 victory

Cleveland Guardians vs. Tampa Bay Rays: Game Highlights

The Guardians won for the fourth time in 14 games to reach .500 at 70-70 and keep their wild-card hopes alive. The Rays dropped to 71-69.

Cleveland broke through after the Rays, credited with beginning the opener trend in baseball, used an opener for the first time this season.

Griffin Jax worked a clean first, but Ian Seymour (3-1) quickly ran into trouble. He bobbled Gabriel Arias’ bunt for an error, then hit a batter and walked another to load the bases. Kwan singled in two runs, Ramírez followed with a two-run double, and David Fry added an RBI single to make it 5-0. Ramirez was 3 for 5 with the two RBI.

Austin Hedges homered for Cleveland in the fifth.

Gavin Williams (10-6) gave Cleveland seven solid innings, allowing one run on seven hits. He walked three and struck out three.

Williams' allowed Junior Caminero’s 41st homer in the sixth, the rookie’s AL-leading 14th since Aug. 1.

Key moment Seymour’s misplay on Arias’ bunt set up Cleveland’s five-run second.

Key stat Eight: The Guardians have homered in eight straight games, their second-longest streak of the season.

Up next RHP Tanner Bibee (9-11, 4.77 ERA) was set to start for Cleveland on Saturday night against RHP Shane Baz (9-11, 4.98).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Pereira grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Williams struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Feduccia flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Smith relieved Herrin
	9th Inning	Noel flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Arias grounded out to second.

Statistics

CLE		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	13
10	Strikeouts	5
7	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
12	Hits	7
2	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	1
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
40	At Bats	32
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
22	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
21	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
170	Pitches	135
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
16	Total Bases	12
43	Plate Appearances	36
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	3
6.1	Runs Created	3.2
.300	Batting Average	.219
1.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.400	Slugging Percentage	.375
.200	Secondary Average	.281
.349	On Base Percentage	.306
.749	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.681
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
5.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.2
47.0	Batter Rating	18.0
40.0	At Bats Per Home Run	32.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.95	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.75
.100	Isolated Power	.156
0.20	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.80
.047	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.111
-.100	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.063
14.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.2
92.8	MLB Rating	73.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0