{"id":923861,"date":"2026-10-11T04:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923861\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T04:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:54:15","slug":"williams-strikes-out-12-as-guardians-blank-white-sox-to-complete-alds-comeback-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/923861\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams strikes out 12 as Guardians blank White Sox to complete ALDS comeback | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gavin Williams struck out 12, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered on a pitch just above home plate and the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Saturday night to complete a comeback from a 2-0 deficit in their best-of-five American League Division Series.<\/p>\n

Cleveland open the American League Championship Series at Tampa Bay on Monday night, seeking their first World Series appearance since 2016. The Guardians\/Indians franchise have not won the title since 1948, the longest drought among MLB<\/a> teams.<\/p>\n

Guardians pitchers struck out 21, the most in a nine-inning postseason game. The White Sox managed just three hits, putting only nine balls in play, and struck out 75 times over the series.<\/p>\n

Two days after getting the save in Game 4, Williams became just the third pitcher in postseason history to get the last out of a game and start the following game when his team faced elimination in both.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

He did not allow a hit until Kyle Teel looped a knuckle-curve into right field with two outs in the sixth, two innings after Ram\u00edrez homered for the second straight game, a two-run drive off Sean Burke.<\/p>\n

After a walk loaded the bases, Erik Sabrowski relieved Williams and struck out Munetaka Murakami.<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019s 12 strikeouts tied Cleveland\u2019s record for a postseason game. He got 22 swings and misses, and his 24 strikeouts over three games tied for the second most in a best-of-five postseason series.<\/p>\n

Hunter Gaddis followed Sabrowski and got four outs. Cade Smith finished for his first career five-out save, striking out the side in the ninth. He blew a fastball by Tristan Peters for the final out, setting off a celebration at Progressive Field.<\/p>\n

Chicago, the first team to reach the playoffs after three straight 100-loss seasons, have not won the World Series since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin Williams struck out 12, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered on a pitch just above home plate and the Cleveland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-923861","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\/923861","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=923861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}