{"id":933306,"date":"2026-10-15T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933306\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:04:23","slug":"guardians-gavin-williams-to-start-game-3-vs-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933306\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians&#8217; Gavin Williams to start Game 3 vs. Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player=\"59085c2a-d957-4bb4-8d7e-295419b7254d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/gavin-williams\/59085c2a-d957-4bb4-8d7e-295419b7254d\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gavin Williams<\/a> will get the start in Game 3 against the Tampa Bay Rays with the series tied 1-1, Guardians president of baseball operations\u00a0Chris Antonetti <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tim_stebbins\/status\/2110466311998308618\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tim_stebbins\/status\/2110466311998308618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced <\/a>Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams will be pitching on four days\u2019 rest after recording 12 strikeouts in 5.2 scoreless innings against the White Sox in Game 5 of the ALDS. <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has allowed two runs and struck out 24 in 11.2 innings this post-season.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the mound for the Rays is Griffin Jax who will be making his first career start in the playoffs. The 31-year-old pitched two innings, allowed one hit, one walk, and an earned run while racking up four strikeouts in Game 3 of the ALDS against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin Williams will get the start in Game 3 against the Tampa Bay Rays with the series tied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-933306","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\/933306","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=933306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}