{"id":659474,"date":"2026-05-09T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:38:14","slug":"travis-bazzana-hits-his-first-major-league-homer-in-the-guardians-6-4-win-over-the-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659474\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Bazzana hits his first major league homer in the Guardians\u2019 6-4 win over the Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Travis Bazzana hit his first major league home run, rookie Parker Messick allowed one run in 5 2\/3 innings and the Cleveland Guardians won their third straight, beating the Minnesota Twins 6-4 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez reached 1,700 career hits with a liner just past the outstretched glove of Minnesota shortstop Brooks Lee and into left field in the seventh inning, driving in Steven Kwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Byron Buxton had three hits and homered for the 12th time in his last 22 games for Minnesota, which has dropped three of four on its six-game trip. Buxton\u2019s two-run shot off Matt Festa in the seventh got the Twins within 4-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With two out and Ram\u00edrez on first base, Bazzana connected on a 1-1 slider from Connor Prielipp, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2052895792302547068\" rel=\"nofollow\">driving it 427 feet<\/a> into the Guardians\u2019 bullpen in center field to make it 4-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bazzana, the No. 1 pick in the 2024 amateur draft, was called up from Triple-A Columbus on April 28. He is 6 for 18 with four RBIs since going hitless in his first 12 big league at bats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Messick (4-0) struck out six. Among rookies, the left-hander is tied with Washington\u2019s Foster Griffin with four wins, tied with the Mets\u2019 Nolan McLean in strikeouts with 51 and is second among qualified rookies in ERA (2.30).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cade Smith allowed a run in the ninth but picked up his MLB-leading 11th save.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cleveland\u2019s first three batters reached base. Kwan singled up the middle, advanced to second when Angel Martinez was hit by a pitch and scored when Minnesota second baseman Luke Keaschall botched a grounder hit by Rami\u0301rez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A sacrifice fly by Rhys Hoskins scored Martinez to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prielipp (1-1) gave up four runs, one earned, and struck out six in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Minnesota sends RHP Joe Ryan (2-3, 3.72 ERA) to the mound against Cleveland RHP Tanner Bibee (0-5, 4.58) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Travis Bazzana hit his first major league home run, rookie Parker Messick allowed one run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,20637,85,81608],"class_list":["post-659474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-school","tag-sports","tag-supplies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}