Cleveland Guardians at Detroit Tigers

· Major League Baseball

Cleveland Guardians

65-42, 32-27 Away

Final
5 - 0

Detroit Tigers

52-57, 25-28 Home

Ramírez hits 243rd homer for Cleveland, passes Albert Belle as Guardians beat Tigers 5-0

Josh Naylor hit a first-inning homer off Alex Faedo (5-3) and Ramírez hit a two-run drive in the eighth against Jason Foley. The 31-year-old Ramírez has spent his entire 12-year big league career with Cleveland.

Hall of Famer Jim Thome tops the Cleveland home run list with 337, part of a 22-year career that included 612 homers for six teams.

Brayan Rocchio added a ninth-inning homer off Joey Wentz.

Lane Thomas went 1 for 4 in his Guardians debut, scoring on Ramírez's home run. Thomas was acquired Monday from Washington.

Cleveland has won three straight and six of eight. The Tigers have lost three in a row heading into the trade deadline.

“I'm just ready for it be over,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “We're all tired of talking about it.”

Gavin Williams (1-3) and four relievers combined on a four-hitter in Cleveland's 10th shutout this season, the 11th against the Tigers. Williams allowed two hits in five innings with eight strikeouts and one walk in his first win since Sept. 17 against Texas in his final start last year.

“Everything was working today,” Williams said. “I didn't throw as many changeups today, but that's fine.”

He had been winless in five starts this season.

“He had to pitch through the rain and they fouled off enough pitches to get his pitch count up,” Vogt said. “His fastball command has been better and his curveball was really good.”

Tim Herrin, Nick Sandin, Cade Smith and Emmanuel Clase followed with an inning each The Tigers were held to four hits or fewer for the 15th time.

Cleveland won the season series 7-6 and sent the Tigers to their seventh loss in 10 games. The teams went 5-5 against each other in July, with Williams posting a 1.65 ERA in three starts.

“He's got the ability to miss some bats and keep the ball on the ground,” Hinch said. “He was overpowering us early."

Daniel Schneemann had an RBI double in a rainy fifth inning that included a delay for the grounds crew to work on the infield,

Detroit grounded into inning-ending double plays in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings.

“It felt like every time we got someone on base, they were erased by a double play,” Hinch said.

Tyler Holton started against the Guardians for the third time in eight days, holding them scoreless for 2 2/3 innings. He hasn't allowed a run in his last 18 2/3 innings over 13 appearances.

Guardians: RHP Ben Lively (9-6, 3.44) starts Thursday's opener of a four-game series against visiting Baltimore.

Tigers: Host Kansas City on Thursday in the start of a four-game series.

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Matchup Prediction

Tigers: 48.7%

Guardians: 51.3%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Pérez grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Malloy struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Keith grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Clase relieved Smith
	9th Inning	Schneemann fouled out to catcher.
	9th Inning	Rocchio homered to left center (399 feet).

Statistics

CLE		DET
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	11
5	Strikeouts	10
5	Runs Batted In	0
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	4
1	Stolen Bases	0
0	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	0
0	Ground Into Double Play	3
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
33	At Bats	29
3	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
4	Runners Left On Base	11
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	0
19	Fly Balls	8
0	Caught Stealing	0
127	Pitches	145
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
19	Total Bases	4
35	Plate Appearances	31
486.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
5	Extra Base Hits	0
5.5	Runs Created	-0.9
.242	Batting Average	.138
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.576	Slugging Percentage	.138
.364	Secondary Average	.069
.265	On Base Percentage	.194
.840	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.331
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.4
5.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	-0.9
42.0	Batter Rating	4.0
11.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.63	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.68
.333	Isolated Power	.000
0.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.000	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.065
.121	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.069
10.0	Runs Produced	0.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.2
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.2
89.3	MLB Rating	58.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0