On September 11, 2024, the Cleveland Guardians defeated the Chicago White Sox 6-4. Lane Thomas was the standout player for Cleveland, leading the charge offensively. The Guardians' strong hitting, combined with solid pitching, allowed them to hold off the White Sox despite a good effort from Dominic Fletcher on the opposing side(
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00:00And the White Sox Cleveland
00:01looks for a sweep here today of
00:03this three game series.
00:04Davis Martin he's on for his
00:06eighth start ninth appearance
00:07looking for his first win with a
00:08fine ERA of three twenty nine.
00:10Stephen Kwan now batting to
00:12eighty eight line drive and a
00:14base hit right up the middle for
00:15Stephen Kwan where Rick little
00:17by little he's starting to find
00:18it.
00:19Andre Cimino is batting to fifty
00:21four slider is low but he went
00:25and that's a strikeout.
00:27And he's going to get a strikeout
00:28and that's a strikeout.
00:30Bill Miller rings him up and
00:32Jose Ramirez Jose has hit in
00:34each of his last three games
00:36right back up the middle off the
00:37glove of Davis and Jose is going
00:39to beat it out for an infield
00:41single.
00:41Martin stuck his glove out there
00:43but couldn't corral it.
00:44Josh Naylor coming up high
00:46flyball deep center field.
00:48Robert moving over he's got room
00:50the runners will retreat and
00:51tag Kwan will get the third
00:54Ramirez stayed at first and
00:56there are two down now Lane
00:57Thomas you'll get a chance with
00:59two outs to give Cleveland the
01:00early lead pitches down low and
01:03Ramirez steals the base
01:04uncontested is thirty eight on
01:06the year.
01:07So now a chance to drive in two
01:08for Thomas Thompson.
01:10And he's going to get it.
01:12The throw to first man in time
01:14and the Guardians will score to
01:16Jose Ramirez King racing around
01:19third never broke stride and on
01:22an infield single it's to
01:23nothing.
01:24Cleveland that's just flat out.
01:26Good hustle to run infield
01:28single.
01:29That's a rare play on the best
01:30teams in Major League Baseball
01:32when they score first at fifty
01:33two and fifteen runner goes
01:36throw down a second.
01:37It's in time a great throw by
01:40Chucky Robinson that'll end the
01:42inning.
01:42But the Guardians are out front
01:43to nothing with the White Sox
01:45coming to bat.
01:46Well Matthew Boyd will be our
01:47starting pitcher and he's making
01:48his sixth start and he's been
01:50outstanding in those six hours
01:52twenty eight two thirds and he's
01:53just 17 hits allowed and
01:55a lot of strikes and composed
01:57and letting that defense work
01:58struck him out on three pitches
02:00to start the game.
02:00Here's Luis Robert Junior.
02:03Rock him out on three pitches
02:05six pitches to strikeouts.
02:07They've been trying to keep it
02:08in on Roberts all series long
02:10and they've done a really nice
02:10job.
02:11Here is Brian Ramos for Chicago.
02:15There's a base hit for Ramos to
02:18out single now Andrew Vaughn.
02:20Oh they Adam picked it.
02:21First ball gets away though and
02:23down the second base goes
02:25he was dead to rights.
02:26Matthew Boyd has done 14 pitches
02:28in the inning.
02:29Thirteen strikes swung out and
02:32missed he got him with the
02:34changeup Boyd strikes out three
02:36in the first Lenin Sosa leads
02:38off the Sox second swing and a
02:40miss he strikes him out for
02:42outs all four strikeouts for
02:45Matthew Boyd.
02:46He's back at his normal throw
02:49that changeup getting him out
02:50front.
02:51Jake Amaya is the ninth place
02:53for Chicago with two on and two
02:55out.
02:56Curveball bring him up five
02:58strikeouts for Matthew Boyd to
03:00nothing.
03:01Guardians through two in
03:02Chicago Austin Hedges in the
03:04start behind the plate today
03:05leads off the third Hedges
03:08drives one a deep left field
03:10jokes will wave goodbye into the
03:13White Sox bullpen.
03:15Austin Hedges with his second
03:17home run of the season and it's
03:19three nothing Cleveland.
03:20Bang.
03:21Well he got one and I'm sure it
03:23felt beautiful.
03:24Look at he's looking at he's
03:25posing Hedges last home run came
03:28back on May the 4th but he
03:29drives that one up and out of
03:31here and Cleveland now with a
03:32three run lead in the third.
03:34So after the homer a walk by
03:36Martin here's Andre Jimenez
03:38struck out his first time up
03:40going to swing and a high topper
03:42to first handled on the grass by
03:44Vaughn goes to the bag and
03:46didn't beat Jimenez Jimenez out
03:48hustled Vaughn and the
03:50Guardians have two men on with
03:52nobody out.
03:53He was a little lazy going back
03:55to the bag and Jimenez with his
03:57hair on fire beat him to the
03:59bag at second and third two
04:01down.
04:02Now the infield drops back for
04:03Lane Thomas.
04:04He got that two out to run
04:06infield single back in the
04:08first trying to find the hole on
04:10the right side a diving stop by
04:12Sosa his throw not in time.
04:15And.
04:15He's got two infield singles and
04:22four runs batted in.
04:24That is unbelievable.
04:25I don't know if that's ever
04:26happened twice to the same guy
04:28in one game.
04:29That's not good luck.
04:30That's just good hustle by your
04:31team.
04:31Yeah.
04:32And this is the kind of ball
04:33game we have seen Cleveland play
04:35all season long that has the
04:38opposition just shaking their
04:40heads.
04:40This is the thirty ninth pitch
04:43of the inning.
04:45This should get him out of it.
04:47Robinson say ditches the mask
04:49and the first baseman Vaughn
04:51Johnson to make the catch Boyd
04:53second time through the order
04:55basic Corey Joltz.
04:58Lying dry base hit good effort
05:00by Jimenez who just couldn't get
05:02there.
05:03It's the second hit for the
05:04Sox.
05:05Robert Junior hits for the second
05:07time.
05:08Weak ground ball the second
05:09Jimenez will get the lead one or
05:11no.
05:12Schumann could not come up with
05:13the flip.
05:14It was a little low.
05:15It looked like Jimenez couldn't
05:16get anything on it.
05:17He probably should have just
05:18went to first base because that
05:20hope he didn't get it up in the
05:21air.
05:22A big break for the Sox.
05:23Here's Ramos right field.
05:27John Kenzie got turned around
05:28and he can't make the play.
05:31But the runners are only going
05:32to advance one base and the
05:33bases are going to be loaded
05:35with nobody out.
05:36So the runners he sort of
05:37decoyed the runners bases stay
05:40loaded.
05:40Now one down for Lenin Sosa.
05:44Base hit Joltz will score and
05:50will have to hold.
05:51So they're on the board.
05:52But again kind of only able to
05:54go station to station here on
05:56these last couple of hits that
05:58just barely cleared the glove of
06:01Jimenez bases loaded one out
06:02Miguel Vargas.
06:04Oh boy that's a block.
06:06Nobody was at first.
06:07And Boyd was he just had a
06:09brain freeze.
06:10Yeah he did.
06:11Can't fake the first and it
06:13forces home a run.
06:14It's five to two up the middle
06:17and has long thrown a first in
06:19time and he got him.
06:21But another run scores and now
06:22it's five to three.
06:24Now this has turned into a long
06:25inning for Boyd and the air
06:27really opens up the door for
06:28Chicago.
06:29Here's Dominic Fletcher.
06:31It hit Boyd and another one will
06:35score the White Sox have made it
06:37a one run game on an infield
06:39RBI single by Fletcher.
06:41This has been a really strange
06:43third inning.
06:44There's been seven runs scored
06:45in this third inning between the
06:46two teams.
06:47And miscues a plenty on both
06:49sides.
06:50Swing and a miss.
06:51He struck him out to end the
06:52inning but the White Sox have
06:54made it a game again.
06:55Andres Jimenez with two out and
06:58two on goes to the backstop and
07:00both runners will advance.
07:01That's a big play there.
07:04Stayed out there and struck him
07:05out.
07:06Guardian strand of pair Matthew
07:08Boyd back to work for the
07:09Guardians bottom of the fifth.
07:10He's facing Andrew Vaughn swing
07:13and a miss Vaughn strikes out on
07:15the breaking ball nine on the
07:17afternoon Lenin Sosa and RBI
07:19single in the third Sosa turns
07:22on one into the corner.
07:25He continues hitting against
07:26this Cleveland staff.
07:27That's a double and a
07:28disappointed Matthew Boyd will
07:30depart.
07:31You know how badly he wanted to
07:32get his team through this fifth
07:33inning.
07:34But it wasn't to be today.
07:35Strikes out nine but he leaves
07:37with the Guardians up one
07:39Sandlin seven and oh on the
07:41season.
07:42This is sixty third appearance
07:43as E.R.A. three point eight
07:45eight.
07:46Here's the two two to Vargas
07:49swing and a miss strike three.
07:51Got him to chase the hard stuff
07:52upstairs two down in the inning
07:54big strikeout for Sandlin.
07:57Hit that one in the right field
07:59John Kenzie Noel will make the
08:00catch White Sox strand a runner
08:02in scoring position.
08:03Here's Andre Siemenas one for
08:05three with an infield hit.
08:07Cleveland hasn't scored since
08:08they took a five nothing lead in
08:10the third smacked up the alley
08:13in right center field.
08:14That'll get down.
08:15It's cut off by Fletcher.
08:17The throw to second it's a close
08:19play and he came off the bag and
08:22he's out.
08:23What a great job by Fletcher to
08:25get a throw off on the money and
08:28the Guardians now have runners
08:29at the corners with one out
08:31looking to add to a one run
08:32lead.
08:33Just what the doctor ordered.
08:34Brennan has batted three thirteen
08:37for the year with runners in
08:39scoring position chopped off the
08:41plate.
08:42Only play for Vardis at first
08:44to run home to make it six for
08:47two down in the inning.
08:48But Brennan gets the job done.
08:50You put it in play you get the
08:51run and Cleveland pitchers have
08:53now today struck out 17 and the
08:57last hope for the White Sox is
08:58Andrew Vaughn their most
09:00dangerous and complete hitter.
09:02Buckett slider on the outside
09:05corner completes the sweep for
09:07Cleveland save number forty four
09:10for Emmanuel Klaas.