{"id":215122,"date":"2025-09-10T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215122\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:14:10","slug":"guardians-beat-royals-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215122\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians beat Royals 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Joey Cantillo allowed four hits in a career-best eight-plus innings, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered, doubled and scored twice, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Tuesday night for their fifth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ram\u00edrez, who had three hits, hit a solo homer off Royals starter Noah Cameron<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Guardians, who has won six of seven, beat the Royals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-guardians-score-5675b3be2eb331410784003369761cfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10-2<\/a>\u00a0in the series opener Monday<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Guardians clinched the season series \u2014 and the head-to-head tiebreaker for any postseason implications \u2014 over the Royals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cantillo (5-3) struck out five and didn&#8217;t issue a walk. Cade Smith pitched a scoreless ninth for his 12th save for the Guardians, who entered play 2 1\/2 games behind Seattle for the final wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez, who had three hits, hit a solo homer off Royals starter Noah Cameron (7-6) with two outs in the first. David Fry hit the second of back-to-back to doubles to drive in Ram\u00edrez in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron, a 26-year-old rookie, gave up two runs on six hits with eight strikeouts in seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians, who has won six of seven, beat the Royals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-guardians-score-5675b3be2eb331410784003369761cfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10-2<\/a>\u00a0in the series opener Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Witt Jr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-india-wacha-1893967f5b5a225280c7786db42aa896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned<\/a>\u00a0from a three-game absence and Jonathan India was activated off the 10-day IL for Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment\n<\/p>\n<p>Cantillo gave up a leadoff single to Kyle Isbel in the ninth and was replaced by Smith, who got Mikael Garcia to fly out. Isbel moved to second on a wild pitch and advanced to third when Witt singled before Smith struck out Vinnie Pasquantino and Salvador Perez to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat\n<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians clinched the season series \u2014 and the head-to-head tiebreaker for any postseason implications \u2014 over the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Up next\n<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City has not announced its starter against Logan Allen (7-11, 4.46 ERA) on Wednesday in the third of a four-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Joey Cantillo allowed four hits in a career-best eight-plus innings, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered, doubled and scored twice,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[30319,7448,1578,13593,1266,50,1573,117580,13570,62,52,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-215122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ohio","15":"tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115179242500770747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}