{"id":593046,"date":"2026-04-19T04:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593046\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:54:17","slug":"gavin-williams-strikes-out-11-in-the-guardians-4-2-win-over-the-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593046\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Williams strikes out 11 in the Guardians&#8217; 4-2 win over the Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) &#8211; Gavin Williams struck out 11 over seven innings to push his majors-leading total 40, Brayan Rocchio hit a three-run homer and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams (3-1) allowed a run on three hits and walked one in a dominant outing. He had his sixth career double-digit strikeout game and second of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cade Smith struck out the side in the ninth for his fifth save.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez stole his 10th base in the first inning, becoming the first player to reach double digits this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orioles starter Dean Kremer (0-1) allowed two hits and three runs in six innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore took the lead in the fourth inning when Leody Taveras hit a solo homer to right field, Cleveland responded in the fifth. Rhys Hoskins walked and Daniel Schneemann singled before Rocchio lined a two-out, three-run homer to right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles cut it to 3-2 in the eighth on Gunnar Henderson&#8217;s homer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bo Naylor added a run in the bottom half with a solo homer to right field, his first of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore had four hits and struck out 16 times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up next <br \/>Baltimore LHP Trevor Rogers (2-1, 3.04 ERA) was set to start Sunday against LHP Joey Cantillo (1-0, 2.61 ERA) in the series finale. <br \/>___ <br \/>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) &#8211; Gavin Williams struck out 11 over seven innings to push his majors-leading total 40, Brayan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[371,363,99],"class_list":["post-593046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593046","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=593046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}