Cleveland Guardians at Tampa Bay Rays

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Cleveland Guardians

54-51, 27-25 Away

Final
3 - 11

Tampa Bay Rays

60-43, 36-15 Home

Rays beat the Guardians 11-3 behind homers from Ryan Vilade and Richie Palacios

Cleveland Guardians vs. Tampa Bay Rays: Game Highlights

Shane McClanahan (9-6) allowed one run on two hits while striking out three and walking a pair in five innings. He improved to 7-1 in nine home starts this season. Chris Roycroft earned his first career save, allowing two runs on four hits in three innings.

Fortes tied a career high in hits, drove in a pair of runs and scored twice as he extended his hitting streak to five games, going 11 for 19 in that span.

Tampa Bay’s Nos. 4-9 hitters finished a combined 13 for 26 with 10 RBI in the game.

Joey Cantillo (8-6) allowed five runs over 3 2/3 innings and Austin Hedges hit a two-run home run in the ninth for the Guardians. Cleveland has dropped three consecutive games.

Vilade hit his eighth home run of the season in the second to give Tampa Bay a 2-0 lead. Chase DeLauter and Brayan Rocchio doubled in the fourth to bring the Guardians to within one.

Tampa Bay broke the game open in the fourth as the first six batters reached base to stretch the lead to 5-1. Fortes came home on Junior Caminero's base hit and an error at the plate by Hedges in the sixth to make it 6-1 before Fortes finished his night at the plate with a double to bring in Ben Williamson in the seventh.

Chandler Simpson hit a sacrifice fly and Palacios capped the scoring for the Rays with a three-run home run in the eighth.

Up Next Cleveland will send RHP Tanner Bibee (4-9, 3.86 ERA) to the mound on Saturday against Tampa Bay RHP Nick Martinez (9-2, 2.59) for the second game of the three-game series.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Halpin grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Hedges homered to left (374 feet), Arias scored.
	9th Inning	Arias reached on infield single to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Bazzana flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Fry grounded out to second.
	8th Inning	Williamson lined out to right.

Statistics

CLE		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	13
7	Strikeouts	10
3	Runs Batted In	11
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	15
0	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	11
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
34	At Bats	39
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	22
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	4
13	Fly Balls	17
0	Caught Stealing	0
124	Pitches	168
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
12	Total Bases	27
36	Plate Appearances	44
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	7
3.0	Runs Created	10.4
.206	Batting Average	.385
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.353	Slugging Percentage	.692
.206	Secondary Average	.410
.250	On Base Percentage	.432
.603	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.124
1.1	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
3.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	10.8
26.0	Batter Rating	75.5
34.0	At Bats Per Home Run	19.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.44	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.82
.147	Isolated Power	.308
0.29	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.40
.056	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.091
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.026
6.0	Runs Produced	22.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.5
76.0	MLB Rating	115.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0