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Key links: Mega-preview<\/a> | Series outlooks<\/a> | Bracket<\/a> | Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n Lineups White Sox lead series 2-1<\/p>\n Starting pitchers: Parker Messick<\/a> vs. Hagen Smith<\/a><\/p>\n How the Guardians can even the series: Cleveland needs a midseason-type start from Parker Messick<\/a>. He was just OK in his Game 1 outing against the White Sox, lasting only 4 innings. The Guardians probably will need more from him in Game 4 after using seven pitchers to get through Game 3, including closer Cade Smith<\/a> for two innings. Of course, it wouldn’t hurt if veteran slugger Jose Ramirez<\/a> had another all-world game — he was fantastic in Wednesday’s win to stave off elimination. He and Messick can force a Game 5 by themselves. — Jesse Rogers<\/p>\n The Guardians have to feel pretty good about their position, at least as good as a team can be one loss away from elimination. They aren’t likely to repeat their Game 3 combo — 19 strikeouts by the pitchers, 10 walks by the batters — but a lesser variation of that formula will still play. The White Sox have been resilient this season, so Cleveland will want to strike early to keep the momentum that was so electric early Wednesday cooking all through the game. If that happens, the Guardians’ hitters can stay patient and their pitchers can attack a possibly anxious White Sox lineup, much like what happened Wednesday. — Bradford Doolittle<\/p>\n Lineups<\/p>\n Guardians<\/p>\n TBD<\/p>\n White Sox<\/p>\n TBD<\/p>\n ]<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve got a Game 4 in the American League Division Series. The Cleveland Guardians rode a four-run third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[488666,64,63,5256,5258,794,591,85],"class_list":["post-920559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-488666","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-espn","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920559","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=920559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cle.png&h=60&w=60.png\"\/)
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