By Erik Erlendsson<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Ryan Vilade and Richie Palacios hit home runs, Nick Fortes had four hits, and the Rays beat the\u00a0 Guardians, 11-3, on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Shane McClanahan (9-6) allowed one run on two hits while striking out three and walking a pair in five innings. He improved to 7-1 in nine home starts this season. Chris Roycroft earned his first career save, allowing two runs on four hits in three innings.<\/p>\n
Fortes tied a career high in hits, drove in a pair of runs and scored twice as he extended his hitting streak to five games, going 11 for 19 in that span.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay\u2019s Nos. 4-9 hitters finished a combined 13 for 26 with 10 RBIs in the game.<\/p>\n
Joey Cantillo (8-6) allowed five runs over 3 2\/3 innings and Austin Hedges hit a two-run home run in the ninth for the Guardians. Cleveland has dropped three consecutive games.<\/p>\n
Vilade hit his eighth home run of the season in the second to give Tampa Bay a 2-0 lead. Chase DeLauter and Brayan Rocchio doubled in the fourth to bring the Guardians to within one.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay broke the game open in the fourth as the first six batters reached base to stretch the lead to 5-1. Fortes came home on Junior Caminero\u2019s base hit and an error at the plate by Hedges in the sixth to make it 6-1 before Fortes finished his night at the plate with a double to bring in Ben Williamson in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Chandler Simpson hit a sacrifice fly and Palacios capped the scoring for the Rays with a three-run home run in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Cleveland will send RHP Tanner Bibee (4-9, 3.86 ERA) to the mound on Saturday against Tampa Bay RHP Nick Martinez (9-2, 2.59) for the second game of the three-game series.<\/p>\n
THE SCORE<\/p>\n
Rays 11, Guardians 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Erik Erlendsson The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Ryan Vilade and Richie Palacios hit home runs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3820,3817,110,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-352185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}