{"id":854866,"date":"2026-08-14T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854866\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:36:37","slug":"tigers-shut-out-guardians-without-a-strikeout-a-first-in-mlb-since-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854866\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers shut out Guardians without a strikeout, a first in MLB since 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/keider-montero\/73ecbb81-39b8-4064-95fd-d9fc6907b76c\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"73ecbb81-39b8-4064-95fd-d9fc6907b76c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Keider Montero<\/a> pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/detroit-tigers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"detroit-tigers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> blanked the Cleveland Guardians 3-0 on Thursday despite failing to record a strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers became the first team to blank an opponent without a strikeout since Rick Porcello did it to the Athletics on July 1, 2014. The feat has only been accomplished seven times since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Montero (9-7) allowed one walk over 6 1\/3 innings, holding the Guardians scoreless despite not recording a strikeout. Tyler Holton worked 1 2\/3 strong innings, and Kenley Jansen earned his 15th save in a perfect ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Dingler drove in the game&#8217;s first run with an RBI groundout in the third before Eduardo Valencia added his fifth homer of the season on a ball that sailed into the left-field seats.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Torkelson capped the scoring with a one-run single in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Parker Messick (9-7) worked 5 2\/3 innings for the Guardians, allowing two runs and three hits while fanning six.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland&#8217;s Steven Kwan had his career-high on-base streak of 27 games snapped, finishing 0 for 4.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers: RHP Jackson Jobe (1-0, 0.00 ERA) starts the series opener against the White Sox on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: RHP Gavin Williams (11-6, 3.55 ERA) starts the series opener versus the Padres this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Keider Montero pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and the Detroit Tigers blanked the Cleveland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-854866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854866","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=854866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}