{"id":551932,"date":"2026-03-29T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551932\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:41:08","slug":"delauter-hits-4th-home-run-in-3rd-career-game-in-guardians-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551932\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLauter hits 4th home run in 3rd career game in Guardians&#8217; win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 29, 2026, 01:54 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE &#8212; Rookie outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4619649\/chase-delauter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chase DeLauter<\/a> hit his fourth career home run to give <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ad8fa03-36bc-baab-c76a-345b6544424d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland<\/a> the lead for good in the 10th inning, and the Guardians beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> 6-5 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>DeLauter, who Thursday became the fifth player in the franchise&#8217;s 126-year history to hit a home run in his first career regular-season at-bat, extended his arms on an elevated fastball from Mariners closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/40939\/andres-munoz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz<\/a> (0-1) and deposited it beyond the left-field wall at T-Mobile Park for a two-run home run that made it 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>DeLauter became the third player in major league history to hit a home run in each of his first three games, joining Seattle&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36188\/kyle-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Lewis<\/a> (2019) and Colorado&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32150\/trevor-story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Story<\/a> (four straight in 2016). He is also the second player ever to have four homers in his first three games, joining Story.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"cc935396-bed8-99fa-9d97-7aef03f5e97c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41044\/julio-rodriguez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julio Rodriguez<\/a> hit a two-out, two-strike RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4987924\/cade-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Smith<\/a> (1-0) that made it 3-3.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48288779\/mlb-2026-world-series-contender-tiers-dodgers-mets-phillies-braves-yankees-mariners\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774770068_597_r1634195_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48290428\/mlb-2026-season-predictions-divisions-playoffs-world-series-mvp-cy-young-awards\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774770068_910_r1633324_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40422\/luke-raley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Raley<\/a> homered for the third consecutive game, a two-run shot in the bottom of the 10th. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41515\/connor-brogdon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Brogdon<\/a>, who came on to start the inning, struck out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40858\/leo-rivas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Rivas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5080641\/cole-young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Young<\/a> to end it and earned his first save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Mariners starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4629089\/bryan-woo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Woo<\/a> threw five scoreless innings before Cleveland pushed two runs across in the sixth, first on an RBI double by <a data-player-guid=\"ec9ea93f-b7c3-b30e-53a6-694d294e3438\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32801\/jose-ramirez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Ramirez<\/a> and then on a run-scoring single by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917927\/kyle-manzardo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Manzardo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez joined Tris Speaker (486) and Nap Lajoie (424) as the only players with 400 or more doubles in Cleveland&#8217;s 126-year franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Woo pitched six innings and gave up two runs with nine strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41292\/cal-raleigh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh<\/a> got his first hit of the season with an RBI single in the first inning. The 2025 AL MVP runner-up, Raleigh struck out in each of his first eight at-bats to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press and ESPN Research was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 29, 2026, 01:54 AM ET SEATTLE &#8212; Rookie outfielder Chase DeLauter hit his fourth career home run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-551932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551932","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=551932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}