Texas Rangers at Cleveland Guardians

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Texas Rangers

81-80, 33-47 Away

Final
2 - 3

Cleveland Guardians

87-74, 44-36 Home

Guardians clinch AL playoff berth with 3-2 win over Rangers

Guardians clinch playoff berth on walk-off hit by pitch

Cleveland is guaranteed at least an American League wild card and remains tied with Detroit atop the AL Central at 87-74 going into the final day of the regular season.

Cleveland owns the head-to-head tiebreaker, so a victory Sunday over Texas or a Detroit loss at Boston would give the Guardians their second consecutive division title. They were in fourth place in the division with a 40-48 record through July 6 and still 15 1/2 games out of first two days later.

Houston was eliminated from postseason contention with Cleveland's victory. The Astros will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

Garcia (4-8) intentionally walked Gabriel Arias to load the bases before hitting Kayfus on the right forearm with his second pitch to the rookie. Halpin was on third as a pinch runner for Johnathan Rodríguez, whose two-out walk began the rally.

Cade Smith (8-5) retired five batters for the win as three Guardians relievers combined for 3 1/3 scoreless innings.

Rodríguez hit a two-run homer in the first off Jacob Latz to put Cleveland ahead 2-1, scoring José Ramírez. Josh Jung’s RBI double plated Michael Helman in the top half.

Adolis García launched a 433-foot home run in the fourth against Joey Cantillo to pull the Rangers even at 2-all. Cantillo struck out eight over 5 2/3 innings and Latz had six strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.

Key moment Dylan Moore of the Rangers attempted to score on a delayed double steal in the eighth, but was thrown out by second baseman Brayan Rocchio to end the inning. Jung had taken off from first base, prompting catcher Austin Hedges to go there initially.

Key stat The Guardians are an AL-best 41-25 since the All-Star break. Cleveland is the fourth team in MLB history to make the playoffs in the same season it had a 10-game losing streak.

Up next Rangers LHP Patrick Corbin (7-11, 4.34 ERA) faces Guardians LHP Logan Allen (8-11, 4.14) in the regular-season finale.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Kayfus hit by pitch, Halpin scored, Arias to second, Manzardo to third.
	9th Inning	Arias intentionally walked, Manzardo to second.
	9th Inning	Manzardo singled to left, Halpin to third.
	9th Inning	Halpin ran for Rodríguez
	9th Inning	Rodríguez walked.
	9th Inning	Ramírez popped out to second.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		CLE
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	1
8	Ground Balls	6
13	Strikeouts	8
2	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	1
0	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	30
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	5
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	1
2	Doubles	0
11	Fly Balls	16
1	Caught Stealing	1
123	Pitches	148
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	11
33	Plate Appearances	34
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
1.8	Runs Created	3.3
.188	Batting Average	.200
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.344	Slugging Percentage	.367
.125	Secondary Average	.267
.212	On Base Percentage	.294
.556	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.661
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
1.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.5
21.0	Batter Rating	24.5
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	30.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
3.73	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.35
.156	Isolated Power	.167
0.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.38
.000	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.088
-.063	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.067
4.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
70.3	MLB Rating	75.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0