Detroit–Carlos Santana Had a Two-Run Double in the Fourt Inning, Angel MartÃnez Hit a Solo Home in the Fifth and Tanner Bibe Thre Seven Scoreless Innsters to Lead the Cleveland Guardians in a 7-0 Win Over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday Night.
It was the first meeting between Al Division series Last October.
The Al-Le-Leading Tigers Had Won Seven of Nine Games and Cleveland Had Lost Seven of Its Previous 10.
Bibe (4-4) Allowed Just Three Hits and One Walk While Striking Out Eight.
Jack FLAHERTY (2-6) Gave Up Three Runs on Three Hits and Three Walks with Eight Strikeaws Over 6 2/3 Innsates.
FLAHERTY HAD Two Strikeaws in the First Inning, Including the 1000th of his Career. After Kyle Manzardo Walked in the Fourth, Santana’s Double to center in the Guardians Up 2-0.
Tim Herrin Replaced Bibee in the Eighthth and Exite with the Bases Loaded and No Outs. Trey Sweeney LED Off the Inning with a Walk, Javier Baez Followed with An Infield Single and Justyn-Henry Mal roy land on a hit to center that outfielder lane Thomas Appeared to Lose Sight Of in the lights.
Cade Smith Struck Out The Next Three Batters to Strand All Three Runners.
Cleveland Earned a Larger Cushion in A Four-Run Ninth that Got a Boost When Third Baseman Zach McKinstry Was Charmed with a Fielding Error, Allowing Santana to Score after He
Flaherty Started Strong Until José RamÃrez Singled with One Out in The Four Fourth Inning Wheen Cleveland Broke a Scoreless Tie With Two Runs.
Bibee’s Eight Strikeouits Were Three More Thane He Had in Any of His Previous Nine Starts This Season.
Detroit Rhp Jackson Jobe (4-0, 4.12 ERA) and Cleveland Rhp Slade Cecconi (0-1, 5.40) are the probable pitsers fromide night.
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