The Cleveland Guardians and St. Louis Cardinals had a back and forth battle in game two of the three game series.
José Ramírez kicked off things for Cleveland with a solo homer to right field.
Iván Herrera responded with a solo homer of his own, but Daniel Schneemann has his own home run locked and loaded.
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JJ Wetherholt answered back with his second home run of the season to tie it up, again.
It was looking like the only way to score would be home runs. Joey Cantillo had a great outing, pitching 6.0 innings and allowing 2 runs on 5 hits and 2 walks. He struck out four but not before the Guards defense turned a gem of a double play.
Things stayed even until the top of the eighth when the Guardians decided to play some Guards Ball. With one out, José hit a single liner to right field. Kyle Manzardo followed up with a single of his own, giving José the perfect hit to go from first to third. George Valera, who was just activated off of the injured list, doubled to left on a crazy hit that originally landed foul just outside of the batter’s box before bouncing fair.
Juan Brito came on to pinch run for Valera. With Brito on 2nd and Manzardo on 3rd, Angel Martínez knocked his own double, scoring two.
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Shawn Armstrong pitched in the 7th, only allowing a hit and striking out a batter. Erik Sabrowski had an uncharacteristic outing, pitching the 8th. A walk and JJ Wetherholt’s 2nd home run of the night put a two run blemish on Sabrowski’s otherwise impressive season start. Cade Smith was tasked with closing out the game, getting two quick outs before a fielding error by Juan Brito allowed the game tying run on base. Cade gave up a double, sending the game to extras.
A wild pitch from St. Louis pitcher, Riley O’Brien got the ghost runner, Chase DeLauter, in scoring position. There wasn’t a follow up, leaving it to the Cardinals to lose. Tim Herrin’s wild pitch allowed their ghost runner to move to third and a long fly to right gave them the walk off.
The rubber match is tomorrow, first pitch at 1:15PM EDT.
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