Josh Naylor crushed a three-run tie-breaking homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to lead the host Cleveland Guardians to a 4–3 victory and series win against the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday, May 14. Naylor’s blast, a 360-foot shot into an 18-mph wind, came off the third pitch from Angels closer Carlos Estevez,…

NEW YORK—Oscar Gonzalez hit a tie-breaking RBI single in the 10th inning as the Cleveland Guardians beat the New York Yankees 4–2 to even the best-of-five American League Division Series at one game apiece on Friday afternoon. Jose Ramirez opened the 10th against Jameson Taillon (0–1) by dropping a double to left field when Oswaldo…

NEW YORK—Gerrit Cole cruised for most of the night, Harrison Bader and Anthony Rizzo homered and the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Guardians 4–1 on Tuesday in their AL Division Series opener. Not even another Josh Donaldson base-running blunder could slow the Yankees, who have won six straight postseason games against Cleveland dating to…

The Cleveland Guardians completed a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers and clinched the American League Central Division title with a 10–4 victory Sunday afternoon in Arlington, Texas. The Guardians’ seventh straight win, combined with the Detroit Tigers’ 4–1 defeat of the Chicago White Sox, gave the franchise its first division crown since 2018. Steven…

CLEVELAND (AP) — José Ramírez hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Los Angeles Angels 5–3 on Wednesday, Sept. 14, for their sixth consecutive victory. Oscar Gonzalez and Andrés Giménez each had three hits as AL Central-leading Cleveland (76–65) moved 11 games over .500 for the first…

Mike Trout homered in his seventh consecutive game, but it wasn’t enough for the Los Angeles Angels in a 5–4 loss to the host Cleveland Guardians on Sept. 12. Amed Rosario’s seventh-inning double drove home Steven Kwan to snap a 4–4 tie and lift Cleveland to its fourth win in a row and sixth in…

For the first time in nearly 50 years, representatives from Native American groups could not be seen outside Cleveland’s baseball stadium prior to the team’s home opener protesting Chief Wahoo—the former mascot of the city’s beloved baseball team for 90 years. That’s because the Cleveland Indians, from 1915 to 2021, now officially are the Cleveland…

After rooting for one of the most iconic teams in baseball for decades, generations of Cleveland Indians fans throughout the United States are not happy about what the team’s new name will be at the beginning of the 2021 Major League season—The Guardians. The team announced its forthcoming name change last week, seven months after…