Guardians vs. Tigers Game Highlights (9/16/25) | MLB Highlights

Guardians vs. Tigers Game Highlights (9/16/25) | MLB Highlights

Just when you think you know what’s happening between the Guardians and the Tigers, the series goes in a whole new direction. The Tigers in July had a lead of 13 a half today. That lead has basically been cut in half. But the Tigers with three consecutive wins in the next three days will clinch the American League Central. It is 6 and a half right now over the very pesky Cleveland Guardians. Guardians facing the 28-year-old native of Springville, Alabama, making his 26th start, Casey Mai. Casey Mai is going to try to get ahead in counts. Get him to hit the ball on the ground. Steven Quan starts it off. He’s the table setter. Line drive center field going out. Bayz can’t get it. It’s lands softly for a leadoff single. Here’s center fielder Daniel Schnean. That is a beautiful fast ball. Strike three from Casey Mai on Schneean. That’ll bring up Jose Ramirez. Switch hitter banning left-handed. There goes Quan and Ramirez hits it high in the air to the right hand side. Wel Perez is underneath to make the catch. There are two away as Quan retreats and now Manzardo who grew up a Tiger fan stands in the O2 swinging a miss. Splitter dove down and away and disappeared from Manzardo. What a good first inning for Casey Mai. Filling up the strike zone fast ball splitter combination with the occasional slider two strikeouts who go to the bottom of the first inning scoreless. Joey Cantillo will get the start tonight for Cleveland and he is coming off what Steven Vote called the best game of his life. Eight innings dominant shutout pitching against Kansas City. At one point he retired 17 in a row. Jamai Jones will lead it off for Detroit. Three and two misses. Good start. Jamai Jones a seven pitch walk to open the game for the Tigers. Labor Torres just three hits in his last 20 at bats on a fly ball to the right hand side. Nolan Jones is back at the warning track. That ball carried. Jamai Jones on his way to second. He is save. The Guardians may challenge. We’ll see. Jones has a really good arm out there. They’re going to challenge very early. They must feel like this is an out. It looked like the ball. Well, you from your angle. Can blocked us out. Chris Conroy, the second base ump made the call. But was the tag there? It looked like it. He was behind it. arch where it looks like he gets him on that front arm right if he does here but you can’t see can’t see out have to review the call on the field stands the runner is safe with loan yeah the call stands because there was not a good angle exactly wel Perez the batter up the middle throws him out at first now there are two men out and there’s Spencer Torlson and it nailed the inside corner strike three Oh, got him looking at a change up. So can Tillo strands a runner and we go to the second. Scoreless in the Motor City. This is Casey Mai at his best and we’ve seen this now. This is a third straight start. It’s only the second inning, but this is really good stuff. It is. Two down, four strikeouts for Mai. Here’s Nolan Jones in the scoreless second inning. hit hard to first and it ate up Torqulson. He went down to try and field it. It hopped over his shoulder and Jones will go into second base with two down here in the second inning. Well, that took a wicked hop on Torqulson at first and the banner will be CJ Kas lines it into right field. It’s going to be a base hit. Jones around third. He’ll be waved home. Harris throw to the plate. out in time and the Guardians will play from in front on a two out RBI single to right field by CJ Capus. A line drive that dropped right in front of Perez in right field and Nolan Jones able to score from second. So each team has been hit with a bad hop this time. Gavari see this one. This is like a routine ball. Here is catcher Dylan Dingler. Athlete like that field all the way into the corner. This could tie the game. I into third. They’re going to wave him home. Arius is throw to the plate in time. They got him. Cleveland the best in baseball when throwing runners out from the outfield. Steven Quan got to that double. Hit the cut off man. Gabrielle Arius made a perfect throw to the plate and Izz was out by plenty. One- nothing Cleveland. We’re in the third. Now the three 0 pitch to Torres. Lever pounds this ball and very suddenly we are tied. Three 0 connection. Lever Torres jumps on the 3 0. 16th of the year. Ties the game at one in the third. Now that’s taking advantage of a 3 and 0 count. You know that’s not just okay you got the green light. Go up there and just swing at anything you see. No. If you’re going to get a middle fast ball, which that one was, Glaver’s going to jump on it and smashes it in over the Tigers bullpen into those seats out in left field to tie this game up. So, an infield hit on the ball hit off the end of the mat by Riley Green. Torqulson to second, Green to first. Here’s Andy Ibanz. Reached on an air first time up. So, two out, two on, one-1 game. swung on. Fly ball fairly deep right drifting back. Nolan Jones still back onto the warning track. That ball carried, but he makes the catch. Game tied at one. We go to the fourth. So, two quick ones recorded by Casey Mai. And that’ll bring up Gabriel Arus. There’s a ball to deep right field. Going, going, gone. Wow. Gabriel Aras puts the Guardians back on top with his 11th home run of the year. An opposite field shot that just got out of here in a hurry. He crushed it to a spot where he likes to go and that’s to the opposite field and smoked it into those lower stands in right soft liner off the end of the bat. Drops into right field for a base hit for Jos Ramirez. So leadoff man aboard for Cleveland. Second straight inning. Now Kaio Manardo and delivery runner goes. Pitch is high. Throw by Dingler. Not in time. Joey got a great jump on Casey Mise and has steel number 39. Now Manzardo’s got a job to do. That’s perfect. Gets the job done. He’s not going to get there. Manardo beats him to the bag. Torqulson froze instead of just taking it himself and going to the bag. He was waiting for Mai who was never going to beat Manardo to the bag and you get the bonus. They’re at the corners with nobody out. Bo Naylor at the plate. Bo rips one to deep right field. That’ll get down. It’s into the corner. It’s off the wall and in the score is Jose Ramirez down to third as Manardo. Bo Naylor continues his hot spill with an RBI double and makes it a three to one Guardians lead. Tiger bullpen getting busy. Gabriel Arius at the plate. Swinging a miss. Strike three on a splitter downstairs. The throw to first creates the out. There’s one away and here comes AJ Hinch to bring in Tyler Holton. Holton inherits second and third jam with one out as David Fry will pinch it for the right fielder. Ground ball softly to Bayas. He’ll charge, field, fire, throw home. Got him. What a play. He had to do everything right on the soft little chopper. Charge it, field the in between hop, turn, fire home to get Monzardo breaking from third. Three to one lead. Runner second and third. Nobody out. A strike out. A chopper to short. Left on left is CJ Cayas to the plate. Swinging a miss. Got him with a sweeper. What a great job by Tyler Holton. Superb defense behind him from Jav Bayz. The strikeout to end the sixth. Keith holds with a long single motoring the third is green. So pinch hit base hit by Colt Keith. Means it’s runners at the corners. One out. Tigers down 3-1. Here’s Dingler. Chopper to third. Ramirez to second. Get one and safe at first. Tigers have cut the lead in half. It was a slow motion syrupy ground ball and the Tigers are within one. It’s a leadoff single with a vapor trail here in the eighth. That was an incredible defensive play by Steven Qua. That’s a double 99 times out of 100. Well, manager Steven Bolt is going to go to Tim Harrenon. Backto back Ks by Hooer Heron. And now one big out remains here in the eighth. Got him swinging on a breaking ball in the dirt. Naylor digs it out, throws to first and what a job by Tim Heron. Comes in and strikes out the side. Keeps Cleveland on top. 3-2 Guardians lead it. Three outs to go. Cade Smith 15 saves making his 71st appearance of the season. My goodness, this guy has been an animal. Well, last home for the Tigers. Not a bad guy to pin your hopes on if you’re a Detroit fan. Carrie Carpenter, he’s got tremendous power. We’ve seen it on display plenty of times. Talk about long memories. Guardians fans remember Carrie Carpenter for one swing in the postseason. One swing here would tie the game. And a two-1 count. You know what Carrie’s thinking. Tie the ball game. High five. Deep center field. Carrie Carpenter has done it. No way. Straight away center field. How about it? He had to give him a fast ball. Carrie Carpenter was not biting at those split fingers. You knew it was coming and he didn’t get it high enough. He got it just about belt high. Carrie Carpenter smokes it to center field. Just when you think you know how it’s going to go. A pinch hitter shows up with a 1000 watt smile. We’re headed to extra innings. Will Best is coming on to pitch for Detroit. His 60th appearance. He’s got the top of the order to deal with. Steven Quan on Hel Martinez. Jos Ramirez swung a ground ball base hit inside the bag at first down the right field line headed toward the corner. This could be three in to score. Rokio Quan will stop at second. So give Steven Quan an RBI double and Cleveland’s right back on top. Martinez came to the game as a pinch hitter for Daniel in the seventh inning. Line drive left center field. That’s going to get down. That’s in the alley. Juan will score. Hell’s around second. On his way to third. Here’s the relay throw. He’s in there safely with an RBI triple. And the Guardians lead by two. He stayed on it. He plugged the gap and he hustled his way to third. So they have two in now and a chance to add another. And Jose Ramirez with the infield in will bat left-handed. Jose shoots one down the left field line. Fair ball. steps into the corner. Scoring is Anel Martinez and Jos Ramirez continues the Guardians onslaught. They’ve played in three in the 10th and there’s still nobody out. Three consecutive extra base hits. And does this simply tipify this ball club never quitting. Kyle Manzardo has struck out twice and singled twice and he drives one to deep left field. Green back. He’s out of room. It short hops the wall. Jos has to stop at third. Throw goes to second. Vanzardo’s in there with a double. Four straight extra base hits for the Guardians. And now some boobers for Will Vist. It’s gone double, triple, double, double. This game has pivoted hard here in the 10th. And Naylor’s out number one. And the runners have to stay at second and third. And Gabrielle Aras to the plate. He drives one to right field near the line. That will be a fair ball. Ramirez scores. Manzardo stops at third. Throw goes all the way to home. And Arya says, “Thank you very much. I’ll go to second base.” A fourrun tenth for Cleveland and they lead seven to three. Well, the Guardians now lead by four. And they’ll turn it over to Jacob Junis. One down in the 10th. Here’s Spencer Torqulson. Three singles and four trips to the plate. Spencer Torlson. A highf fly ball. It is a two-run Torque Bob. It’s seven to five. Hang on. Let’s see. You never know. Spencer Torlson number 29. Two-run shot. Tigers pull to within two. So, the Tigers trailing seven to five in the 10th are down to their last out. It’ll be Trey Sweeney with towards center. Here’s Anel Martinez. Book it. The Guardians come to Detroit and take the series opener. They’re not done yet. The Guardians win their fifth straight. They’re now 11 and two over the last two weeks. They close to within five and a half games of the Tigers beating Detroit in 10 innings 7 to

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