{"id":183413,"date":"2025-10-01T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183413\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:55:07","slug":"five-run-eighth-inning-powers-guardians-past-tigers-to-even-al-wild-card-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183413\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-run eighth inning powers Guardians past Tigers to even AL Wild Card Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014 Brayan Rocchio and Bo Naylor homered during a five-run eighth inning and the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> evened their AL Wild Card Series against the Detroit Tigers<\/a> with a 6-1 victory in Game 2 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

George Valera also went deep as the Guardians forced a deciding game in the best-of-three series.<\/p>\n

The winner Thursday faces the Seattle Mariners in a Division Series. No team has lost Game 1 of a Wild Card Series and advanced since the expanded round began in 2022.<\/p>\n

Javier B\u00e1ez had two hits and an RBI for the Tigers, who were 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position and stranded 15 runners.<\/p>\n

Detroit had the bases loaded with two out sin the ninth inning, but Cade Smith got Dillon Dingler to line out to first baseman C.J. Kayfus.<\/p>\n

The game was tied 1-1 with one out in the eighth inning when Rocchio connected on a 99.9 m.p.h. fastball from losing pitcher Troy Melton and drove it 379 feet into the right-field stands for his second homer in three games. He had a three-run drive in the 10th inning on Sunday to give the Guardians a 9-8 victory over the Texas Rangers in the regular-season finale.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Venezuelan infielder has a .308 batting average (12 for 39) in 12 postseason games.<\/p>\n

Daniel Schneemann added an RBI double before Naylor golfed a sweeper from Brant Hurter over the right-field wall for a five-run lead.<\/p>\n

Jakob Junis got the win as the Guardians bullpen held Detroit scoreless over 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Cleveland took the lead in the first when Valera drove a 94.1 mph fastball on the upper half of the strike zone from starter Casey Mize over the wall in center field. The homer came on a full count and the seventh pitch of the at-bat.<\/p>\n

Detroit tied it in the fourth and nearly took the lead. B\u00e1ez had a base hit up the middle to drive in Riley Greene and Dingler after Zach McKinstry appeared to beat Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez’s tag at third on a great throw by Chase DeLauter, who was making his big league debut. A video review overturned the safe call by umpire Stu Scheurwater and Dingler’s run came off the board.<\/p>\n

Detroit had runners at the corners with no outs in the seventh after Gleyber Torres was hit by a pitch and advanced to third on Kerry Carpenter’s hit. Hunter Gaddis retired Spencer Torkelson on a shallow flyout, and Tim Herrin struck out Jahmai Jones and Wenceel P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n

Tigers RHP Jack Flaherty (8-15, 4.64 ERA) makes his eighth postseason start Thursday and Cleveland RHP Slade Cecconi (7-7, 4.30 ERA) gets his first playoff start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Brayan Rocchio and Bo Naylor homered during a five-run eighth inning and the Cleveland Guardians evened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-183413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}