Guardians vs. A’s Game Highlights (6/21/25) | MLB Highlights

It’s going to be right hander Mitch Spence on the mound for the athletics tonight. Fourth start of the season for Mitch Spence 2 to 0 on stephen Kwan, who’s batting 2 99 6 home runs, 23 driven in Steven Guan turns a 20 pitch around. That ball is going, going off the wall. Butler played it well and Guan is in the second base with a leadoff double, put a pretty darn good charge into one. Look like the wind died down there. Maybe just a little bit. That ball might have been out of here. Now the infield can play back against a really tough power hitter and carlos Santana swung a lot of fly ball to center J JB Blade coming up to make the Cats in the inning is no runs one hit a half an inning. It’s the Guardians. Nothing in the A are coming up right. And Ortiz on the mound tonight for the Guardians four, seamer, two seamer slider cutter change up. He’s got some great stuff. He’s three and eight. This is his 15th start called strike three that time. He brought it up enough and he catches Butler looking to open the bottom of the first. He must have the not swinging at anything close. Just a fastball right down central got him and he wasn’t even swinging at that. So one away for one of the top young hitters in baseball, Jacob wilson called strike three on the outside corner back to back strikeouts looking to start the game for luis Ortiz take this call and a nice job by framing that ball. Here’s Nick Kurtz, the tremendous rookie swing and a miss strike three great work by Ortiz strikes out three in the inning. So first walk issued by Mitch Spence and Bo Naylor coming up to the plate one on one out, Bo Naylor the bat and he wrecks one up the alley in right center field that it down and go all the way to the wall. Nolan Jones flying around third. He’ll be waved home and the throw is not in time. Ball goes to the backstop and down to third goes, Bo Naylor one nothing Cleveland here in the second as Bo doubles for the sixth time this year picks up his 20th run batted in. Well, that’s what we’re talking about to advance to third and the A’s will have to bring the infield in with one out for jonathan Rodriguez. Rodriguez fair ball down the third base line into the left field corner, be Naylor scores and Rodriguez in the second base with back to back RB I doubles here in inning. Number two. Good job by Jonathan Rodriguez letting the ball travel just enough, putting a good swing on it. Good for his first hit this season against a right handed pitcher that will get you in the lineup a little bit more. So top of the lineup, Steven Kwan who started the first inning with a double off the wall in right up there now trying to bring in another run, the two out RB I here lined to center field, another base hit Rodriguez comes home to score three nothing. Cleveland and Guan is two for two already on the night RB I number 24 for the season, not trying to do too much with that ball. Just put a good clean swing on it for a laser beam up. The middle top of the lineup comes through in Quan and now kyle Manzo Quan takes off in the 32 pitches line to right center field on his way to third. He’ll go there easily. The lob throw back to the infield. Fourth hit of the inning has runners at the corners with two down. So five hits in the game against Mitch Spence, four hits this inning, three runs scored and now with a runner in scoring position and two outs, he has to face jose ramirez for a second time in as many innings right back up the middle into center field. Another run home comes home as Quan scores Manzo stopping at second and that is three consecutive, two out hits for the Guardians and they’re up 40. That is his 9/100 career run batted in. That’s why I call him a walking monument. He’s going to have himself a statue, no doubt about it. J JB step in with nobody out. Runners on the corners. If you Luis Ortiz right here, you have to continue to trust your stomach swing and a miss strike three, there’s your strikeout that one every out so far by Ortiz has come via the strikeout. That’s one down in the bottom of the second. Luis will step in the second baseman and a lines it to right coming on. Rodriguez makes the catch tagging and not going and wisely. So is Rodriguez fired a one hop strike into Naylor at home plate. Now, the number nine hitter Austin wins. This is an important at bat here for Luis Ortiz though. You just got two outs. You’ve held the runner at third base. Sometimes you see a let down out of pitchers swung on and there’s a high fly ball to deep left. This one’s headed toward the corner way back there, but right in front of the wall by Kan who got over there in a hurry and made a nice running catch just in front of the fence. Ortiz works out of it. Nick Kurtz will eat things off for the athletics in the bottom half of the fourth inning swing and a Miss strike three. Ortiz. He’s handled him tonight back to back strikeouts of Nick Kurtz and that’s six in the game for Ortiz really good. His stuff is really moving. Another good four. Receive a lot of confidence right now for luis Ortiz as he faces Max Munsey swing and a Miss strike three. Got him to chase upstairs. Fastball upstairs is coming in on his hands and the ball is coming at that high velocity. There’s just no way you’re going to get the barrel runners 2nd and 3rd for Cleveland is going to walk out to the mound ahead of Nolan Jones coming up and he’ll make the call to the pen for the lefty TJ mcfarland two on two outs top of the fifth. The way the offense has swung the bat here lately, like you are still well within striking distance in this ball game and it’s an opportunity right now to keep the score where it’s at that swung on and missed with the strikeout. No runs, two hits 2, 4.5. It’s Cleveland four in the A’s Lawrence. Butler has not been fun for him facing Luis Ortiz. He has struck out both times. Looking runner goes and strike three called. He rings him up again and but he can’t but does not care for it but thought that was Lowe and I think he’s the home plate umpire ryan Blake. He’s thrown him out, he just threw Butler out of the ball game and he warned, butler said , don’t say one more thing I butler said, but he just kicked him out. But that’s the first time Butler has been kicked out of a big league game. Second walk issued by Ortiz. It’s a four pitch free pass to Kurtz with two outs here in the sixth inning that can spiral out of control really quickly. You have a pitcher that’s at this pitch count 90 pitches. Now make a mistake here. Ball game called strike three on the outside corner and Ortiz has his 10th strikeouts retired. We head to the seventh but at first, but at third, here’s wins zero for two with two deep fly outs to left no balls, two strikes, one out runners on the corners, the score 4 to 0. Cleveland at the bottom of the seventh inning in the air to right long way to go for Rodriguez. It’s dropping fast and it drops , fair comes in to score is held up at third and now wins finally gets his extra base hit. He was looking for it’s 4 to 1 now as the athletics find a run in the seventh and will continue to go with Denzel Clark coming up, turning it over to the top of the order. So Denzel Clark will be the batter. And again, this was Lawrence Butler’s spot in the order. Butler was thrown out swing and a miss strike three, Clark is down on strikes. A huge strikeout for Smith. Now there’s two down, Jacob Wilson, the batter hitless tonight. That’s unusual for him. He came in batting 358 2nd best in baseball. Here’s the 10, swung on line caught by Santana, the first baseman who had to leap as high as he could go to haul that in and he timed his jump perfectly and Wilson’s retired and the threat goes by the boards that will bring up the third baseman Max Mun Rooker lead from third as Gattis at the belt. The right hander that swung on. Drive to left field on the move is Quan and Quan makes the leaping grab for the out tagging and scoring as Rooker, it’s now 4 to 2. What a play by Quan Man. So a sacrifice fly for Mun is 16th RB I of the year Emanuella on to pitch the ninth inning looking for save number 17 and now there’s two down in the ninth, Ramirez book it. The Guardians even the series at a game apiece. They win tonight by a final score of 4 to 2.

Guardians vs. A’s full game highlights from 6/21/25

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