{"id":777749,"date":"2026-07-22T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777749\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:41:08","slug":"guardians-beat-twins-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777749\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians beat Twins 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Austin Hedges and Petey Halpin hit sacrifice flies in the sixth inning as the Cleveland Guardians, a night after hitting seven homers, used small ball to beat the Minnesota Twins 5-2 on Tuesday for a third straight victory.<\/p>\n

Cleveland starter Parker Messick allowed two runs \u2014 one earned \u2014 on four hits in 5 2\/3 innings. He struck out six and didn’t walk a batter before leaving with a runner on second. Colin Holderman (5-2) got the final out in the inning to qualify for the win.<\/p>\n

Hunter Gaddis pitched a scoreless 1 1\/3 innings before Cade Smith closed it out in the ninth for his 29th save \u2014 tops in the majors.<\/p>\n

Ryan Jeffers hit<\/a> his ninth homer, a two-out shot off Messick in the first for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Hedges walked leading off the third against Kendry Rojas and scored on a double by Steven Kwan to tie it. Mike Paredes (0-3) replaced Rojas and surrendered an RBI single to Brayan Rocchio to put Cleveland up 2-1.<\/p>\n

Josh Bell doubled and scored when Messick mishandled a comebacker from Royce Lewis to tie it 2-all in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Cleveland loaded the bases in the sixth and Paredes yielded a go-ahead sac fly to Hedges. Taylor Rogers entered and surrendered a sac fly to Halpin after Travis Bazzana and Arias pulled off a double steal for a 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n

Rogers also gave up a two-out RBI single to Bazzana in the seventh.<\/p>\n

Rojas allowed two runs in 2 1\/3 innings on a hit and two walks for Minnesota, which has lost four straight. Paredes gave up two runs on six hits in three innings. Rookie Jack Anderson pitched a scoreless 1 1\/3 innings in his Twins debut.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Twins RHP Bailey Ober (7-3, 4.32) starts Wednesday opposite Guardians RHP Slade Cecconi (4-6, 4.55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Austin Hedges and Petey Halpin hit sacrifice flies in the sixth inning as the Cleveland Guardians, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,852,363,3,6454,90616,99,452],"class_list":["post-777749","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-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777749","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=777749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}