{"id":932009,"date":"2026-10-18T00:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932009\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T00:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:08:37","slug":"rays-vs-guardians-live-updates-lineups-where-to-watch-nick-martinez-shawn-armstrong-start-game-4-of-alcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932009\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays vs. Guardians live updates, lineups, where to watch: Nick Martinez, Shawn Armstrong start Game 4 of ALCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With rain pouring down in Cleveland on Friday, MLB announced that the game would be moved to Sunday due to inclement weather. The teams will now play Game 4 on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET, followed by Game 5 on Sunday at 5 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the rain just didn&#8217;t change. It never really cleared out the way they were hoping,&#8221; Rays manager Kevin Cash said after the game was postponed. &#8220;It started to get later in the hour, and MLB and both clubs did everything they could to try to get it in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It made the most sense, like at this point in this hour, with no guarantee that there wasn&#8217;t another band coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The development means the ALCS will conclude with four games in four days in the event of a Game 7, without the traditional off day when the teams would travel from Cleveland back to Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>MLB clearly wanted to avoid that scenario, <a data-ylk=\"slk:as the league waited until less than an hour before first pitch to even confirm that first pitch would be indefinitely delayed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:1;pos:1;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;as the league waited until less than an hour before first pitch to even confirm that first pitch would be indefinitely delayed&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB_PR\/status\/2111235770447011845?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">as the league waited until less than an hour before first pitch to even confirm that first pitch would be indefinitely delayed<\/a>. The tarp came off the infield at one point, but it was soon put back on.<\/p>\n<p>This development increases the possibility that the NL champion Milwaukee Brewers face an exhausted team, no matter who wins the ALCS, with Game 1 of the World Series scheduled for next Friday, three days after a possible ALCS Game 7 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Read more here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:2;pos:1;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Read more here&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yContentType&quot;:&quot;story&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/live\/guardians-rays-box-score-live-updates-lineups-starting-pitchers-news-highlights-where-to-watch-game-4-alcs-230808551.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With rain pouring down in Cleveland on Friday, MLB announced that the game would be moved to Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-932009","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\/932009","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=932009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}