{"id":146170,"date":"2025-09-10T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146170\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:07:06","slug":"guardians-beat-royals-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146170\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians beat Royals 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Joey Cantillo allowed four hits in a career-best eight-plus innings, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered, doubled and scored twice, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Tuesday night for their fifth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez, who had three hits, hit a solo homer off Royals starter Noah Cameron<br \/>\n<br \/>The Guardians, who has won six of seven, beat the Royals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-guardians-score-5675b3be2eb331410784003369761cfa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-2<\/a>\u00a0in the series opener Monday<br \/>\n<br \/>The Guardians clinched the season series \u2014 and the head-to-head tiebreaker for any postseason implications \u2014 over the Royals<\/p>\n<p>Cantillo (5-3) struck out five and didn&#8217;t issue a walk. Cade Smith pitched a scoreless ninth for his 12th save for the Guardians, who entered play 2 1\/2 games behind Seattle for the final wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez, who had three hits, hit a solo homer off Royals starter Noah Cameron (7-6) with two outs in the first. David Fry hit the second of back-to-back to doubles to drive in Ram\u00edrez in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron, a 26-year-old rookie, gave up two runs on six hits with eight strikeouts in seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians, who has won six of seven, beat the Royals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-guardians-score-5675b3be2eb331410784003369761cfa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-2<\/a>\u00a0in the series opener Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Witt Jr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-india-wacha-1893967f5b5a225280c7786db42aa896\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned<\/a>\u00a0from a three-game absence and Jonathan India was activated off the 10-day IL for Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment\n<\/p>\n<p>Cantillo gave up a leadoff single to Kyle Isbel in the ninth and was replaced by Smith, who got Mikael Garcia to fly out. Isbel moved to second on a wild pitch and advanced to third when Witt singled before Smith struck out Vinnie Pasquantino and Salvador Perez to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat\n<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians clinched the season series \u2014 and the head-to-head tiebreaker for any postseason implications \u2014 over the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Up next\n<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City has not announced its starter against Logan Allen (7-11, 4.46 ERA) on Wednesday in the third of a four-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Joey Cantillo allowed four hits in a career-best eight-plus innings, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered, doubled and scored twice,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,852,363,3,6454,90616,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-146170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cleveland","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}