{"id":427119,"date":"2026-10-14T00:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427119\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:44:49","slug":"alcs-game-2-discussion-thread-cleveland-vs-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427119\/","title":{"rendered":"ALCS Game 2 Discussion Thread: Cleveland! vs. Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Last night, I was playing Overwatch* with a friend from Cleveland. At one point I asked him what he thought of the Guardians game that was going on. His response was: \u201cHonestly, I sort of forgot they were playing tonight. Cleveland is usually a \u2018go out in the ALDS\u2019 type of team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sure enough, that\u2019s been the Guardians\u2019 MO. Before last night, the Guardians had won just one game in the ALCS in their last six trips to the postseason. But last night, they defeated their opponents, the Tampa Bay Rays, to put them up 1-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Now, the Rays are a much better team than the Guardians are; Tampa Bay won 98 games in the regular season, while Cleveland won 85 games. However, the playoffs are a fickle beast, and sometimes you can Team of Destiny your way to a couple of cheeky series victories. Maybe that\u2019s Cleveland this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">*For those of you asking \u201cwho\u2019s your main\u201d or \u201cwhat\u2019s your role,\u201d I play as a true flex and fill in whatever. But if you must know, my first choice of tank is Reinhardt, my first choice of damage is Mei, and my first choice of support is Zenyatta. <\/p>\n<p>Guardians starting lineup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, I was playing Overwatch* with a friend from Cleveland. At one point I asked him what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[109373,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-427119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-mlb-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427119","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=427119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}