Royals vs. Guardians Game Highlights (9/8/25) | MLB Highlights

Royals vs. Guardians Game Highlights (9/8/25) | MLB Highlights

Every game, the rest of the way will take on added importance. They are 2.5 games out of the final wild card spot. And tonight they welcome in their rivals from the central division, the Kansas City Royals who are just a half game ahead of Cleveland who baby, it’s a big four game series slates cody , he’s five and six in a 478. This will be his first appearance against the Royals tonight. So we’ll see what Clay Slade has to offer here and he’s coming off a start against Boston where he had a rough start. He gave up 11 hits and seven runs. So he’s going to try and put some zeros on the board. He’s due for a good start. Here is a tremendous player. Not enough people talk about Michael garcia swing and a busy struck him out with a curveball and a beauty to here’s the torrid hitting Vinny Pasquin. The left handed slugger hits a two hopper to first routine for Ka and an eight pitch first inning for Slade Sacconi ryan Berger. It will be the starting pitcher came over from the Padres and he is from the state of Ohio about an hour south of here, here’s Daniel s smash to right one out hit for Daniel sean is fifth in 13 at bats against Kansas City pitching this year. Runner at first no score. First standing for Kyle Mansard Manzo ropes one up the alley in right center field. Stephen is off to the races. He’s got a full steam in the third base. They’ll wave him home. He will score and the Guardians take a one nothing lead. A man Zard plunged the gap perfectly with a line drive double his 15th on the year and that’s a called third strike. So Ryan Berger bounces back immediately after the RB I double. Cleveland leads 10. Salvador Perez leads off the top of the second and he swings at the first pitch and hit the mound. A diving stop by roo and he throws him out. Brian Rochel leaping into the air to snare that caram off the pitcher’s mound and he knew he outs Perez running so he didn’t rush. It took his time, got to his feet and made a good throw to get him. Here comes the eighth pitch of his plate appearance and it’s low and inside ball four Jack Cag Leone. His first plate appearance tonight is nearly a mirror image of his plate appearance last night. A long walk in which he battled him up. Second strikeout for slaves. Naylor leads off the home half of the second Guardians lead one slider over the low inside corner called strike three. Naylor is down looking on three pitches and Berger has his second strikeout of the night and brings up Gabrielle Arias breaking ball swung out and missed strike three back to back Ks for Berger. He’s now struck out three in a row one down back to the top of the order and the swing and a miss got him to chase the high fastball. Third strike out for Sacconi Garcia who struck out his first time up the alley in left center field long run gets there and makes the grab warning track before he met the wall. A salute from Slade as Schneeman keeps the Royals off the board here in inning. Number three. Back to back hits here in the third and both hitters not trying to do too much shake. What is given Daniel Schne to the plate and a swing and a high fly ball right center over is, is and he’ll make the catch runner tagging at second inning for third is Roch? The throw is in time is be throws out Roch at third base. Perfect one. Hopper Frazier easy tag hands jose ramirez pants with two down and there’s a base hit right field, Juan around third. He will score and it’s 20. Cleveland Jose Ramirez arm number 75. The young man is going to learn that this guy if you have first base open, you may not want to throw him a good pitch to hit Gabriel Arias steps in, he struck out his first time up and a line drive base hit left field for Gabriel Arias. So he continues his hot hitting ways against the Royals pitching staff this year. And here’s CJ K and there’s a broken bat single down the right field line. It might be extra bases and it will be the third base. They’re going to wave home. Here’s the relay throw to the plate. He is an RB I double for CJ K makes it three to Cleveland. It sounded like he broke his bat but he got enough of it to drop it into the right field corner. The number nine hitter switch hitting Brian Roch. Oh yeah, there’s a liner to left hits deep. It’s the head and unplayable by Yastrzemski goes to the wall around third. Kaas will score. Yastrzemski is beside himself. It’s 4 to 0 Guardians and ya just got kind of turned around and could not locate the baseball. Looks like he broke in on it. Draws a walk. Second issue by Berger. Daniel Sten will step in. Oh yeah, a massive fly ball deep right field is off the wall around. Third roll will score easily. The third guan will stop. It’s an RB I double for Daniel Schne and the Guardians are pouring it along with a three run fourth inning and they lead now five to Jose Ramirez the batter and he won’t the intentional walk as expected with first base open, they’ll pitch to kyle Manzo now with the bases loaded, he swings grounds it to the second baseman diving stop and the shovel play by Massey finds no one in the middle of the diamond. All hands are safe. Another run scores and the Guardians lead it 6 to 0 as Quan comes down the line from third and scores. Nolan Jones ninth man the bat in the inning. Jones plugs one to left center field. It’s well hit. It’s in the, you are sean scores , ramirez scores Manzo stops at third. It’s a two run double for Nolan Jones. The route is over with Ramirez and Schieman scoring. The Guardians have scored six runs in the inning and they now lead it 8 to 0 and that will be it for ryan Berger’s a runner on first with two outs for kyle Isbell. He bounces it near the middle right there is Roo and he flips it to second in time for the force and that retires the side another fine play by Roch made a few tonight. Slain zone has thrown five hitless and scoreless innings. And so we go to the bottom of the Fifth Royals down 8 to 0. The Guardians can move ahead of Kansas City. Should the score hold Roo ropes one to deep left field that will get down two hops its way to the wall and into second base with a one out double and he’s three for three on the night. They got their double shoes on, swung on base hit right field headed for third is Roo, he’ll be held and Stephen Kwan continues to swing it. That’s his second hit on the night as he’s two for three with a walk. And now Schieman, he has a double where you can get too many at bats in the game for an offense. Shaman beats it out in the throw and into the photo pit and another run will score. So Roo scores on the misfire. I don’t think they had him anyway. Arch, I think she beat it out. He would have, he would have beat it out. There’s no doubt you got to give him an R B I on that. Here’s Vinny Pasquin has grounded out, lined up, swung on a chopper headed to the second baseman smothered by Schne Lobs to first for the out and throws out Vinny and that’s six hitless innings for Slades pitching with a 9 to 0 lead. There are two down in the seventh to bring up Jack Cag Leone. He swings, breaks his bat bounces one to short Broch. Gloves throws 91 pitches through seven Slades getting a standing ovation. He’s got a no hitter through seven at the corners. Everybody getting into the act here tonight swung and grounded to second, picked by Massey spins, throws to second to get the force on Roo K scores on with a fielder’s choice. 10 Cleveland Michael Massey leads off the eighth and there’s the first hit of the game for Kansas City off the bat of Michael Massey. Sacconi Thibodeaux hitter into the eighth. They’re still roaring for Sacconi Carter Jensen steps in what a great scene. Double play ball, Jose to Rojo and that came as they turn two. There you go. Come right back and erase it, which he sure did the pitch to is be swung on ground ball headed to second. Schneeman throws over 100 pitches, eight shutout innings of one hit. Baseball. Sacconi takes the cap off, waves to the fans. It is something you never see pitchers do anymore. Sacconi acknowledging this crowd that has been behind him with standing ovations all night long for s went eight innings of one hit shutout baseball and the Cleveland clinic call to the bullpen made for Zack Kent and so the bases are loaded. How about a grand slam down for Leone to the Cag Leone lifts it into shallow right field? That’s a base hit. Jones plays it on a bounce. Yastrzemski is in Tolbert rounds third. He scores as well. It’s a two run single for Jack Cag Leone. The Royals break up the shutout Michael Mass, the batter, the Guardians Hammer the Royals in the series opener by a final score of 10 to 2. They leap frog Kansas City in the wild card standings.

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