{"id":637175,"date":"2026-04-29T21:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:40:25","slug":"chase-delauters-two-run-single-gavin-williams-strong-start-propels-cleveland-guardians-past-tampa-bay-rays-to-snap-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/637175\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase DeLauter\u2019s two-run single, Gavin Williams\u2019 strong start propels Cleveland Guardians past Tampa Bay Rays to snap skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Chase DeLauter<\/a> had two hits and drove in a pair of runs, Gavin Williams<\/a> allowed one unearned run and struck out nine in 7 2\/3 innings and the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> defeated the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> 3-1 on Wednesday to stop a four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Brayan Rocchio<\/a> had three hits and scored two runs as the Guardians avoided being swept in the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay had its six-game winning streak snapped and allowed more than two runs for the first time in seven games. Chandler Simpson<\/a> had two hits for the Rays, who had won 13 straight games against American League opponents.<\/p>\n

Williams (5-1) is among four pitchers in the majors this season to go at least seven innings in three starts. The right-hander gave up five hits and didn\u2019t issue a walk for the first time in 46 starts.<\/p>\n

Cade Smith<\/a> worked the ninth for seventh save in nine chances.<\/p>\n

Rocchio got on base to lead off the fifth when first baseman Jonathan Aranda<\/a>\u2019s botched a slow rolling grounder for an error and Steven Kwan<\/a> followed with a double. With the infield in, DeLauter drove in both runners with a sharp single up the middle off Drew Rasmussen<\/a> (2-1) for a 3-0 lead. <\/p>\n

Rocchio scored Cleveland\u2019s first run in the third on Kyle Manzardo<\/a>\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay\u2019s lone run came in the seventh when Yandy D\u00edaz scored after rookie second baseman Travis Bazzana made a throwing error on what could have been a double-play ball. Bazzana overthrew Rocchio, causing the ball to roll to the tarp halfway up the third-base line.<\/p>\n

Rasmussen allowed three runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 and struck out six in five innings.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rays: Open a six-game homestand against San Francisco on Friday with LHP Shane McClanahan<\/a> (2-2, 3.91 ERA) on the mound.<\/p>\n

Guardians:Have an off day on Thursday before opening a three-game series at the Athletics<\/a>. LHP Joey Cantillo<\/a> (1-1, 2.97) gets the start on Friday,<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Joe Reedy, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Chase DeLauter had two hits and drove in a pair of runs, Gavin Williams allowed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-637175","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\/637175","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=637175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}