{"id":83804,"date":"2025-08-15T03:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/83804\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:41:12","slug":"jose-ramirez-has-3-hits-to-help-guardians-rally-past-marlins-move-closer-to-al-wild-card-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/83804\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez has 3 hits to help Guardians rally past Marlins, move closer to AL wild-card spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez had three hits and scored three runs, Gabriel Arias had a pair of RBIs and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Miami Marlins 9-4 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians trailed 3-0 in the first and 4-3 in the fourth, but rallied for their 23rd win in 32 games and moved within one-half game of the idle New York Yankees for the final American League wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Arias\u2019 sacrifice fly in a two-run fifth against Edward Cabrera (6-6) put Cleveland ahead for good at 5-4. David Fry and Brayan Rocchio both singled in runs in the seventh, when the Guardians scored four times off Valente Bellozo.<\/p>\n<p>Tanner Bibee (9-9) extended his winning streak to five by working 5 2\/3 innings and giving up four runs (two earned). Cade Smith entered with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth and retired Liam Hicks for his sixth save.<\/p>\n<p>Augustin Ram\u00edrez had an RBI single in the first when Miami took a 3-0 lead. The other runs came in when Guardians catcher Austin Hedges dropped a throw at the plate, allowing Kyle Stowers and Ram\u00edrez to score.<\/p>\n<p>Marlins rookie Jakob Marsee, <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/marlins-jakob-marsee-b675560bdf0916f7e802b97c89ab33d4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who had a team record-tying seven RBIs<\/a> Tuesday, went 0 for 4. Cabrera gave up five runs in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Stowers was initially called out at the plate in the first, but the ball slipped out of Hedges\u2019 glove, prompting umpire Clint Vondrak to declare him safe.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez moved past Kenny Lofton into third in franchise history with 977 runs. The seven-time All-Star has spent his entire 13-year career with Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Marlins: RHP Sandy Alcantara (6-11, 6.55 ERA) starts Friday in the opener of a three-game series at Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: LHP Joey Cantillo (3-2, 4.11 ERA) pitches Friday as Cleveland hosts Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez had three hits and scored three runs, Gabriel Arias had a pair of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[58331,58324,1558,58323,34620,852,2320,58332,58325,42327,2822,2808,58321,58329,58328,58322,58327,12941,58326,2324,363,2008,369,12303,6454,17881,99,58330],"class_list":["post-83804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-augustin-ramrez","tag-austin-hedges","tag-baseball","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-cade-smith","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clint-vondrak","tag-david-fry","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-jakob-marsee","tag-joey-cantillo","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-kenny-lofton","tag-kyle-stowers","tag-liam-hicks","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-sandy-alcantara","tag-sports","tag-tanner-bibee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83804","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=83804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}