DETROIT \u2014\u00a0Carlos Santana had a two-run double in the fourth inning, Angel Mart\u00ednez hit a solo homer in the fifth and Tanner Bibee threw seven scoreless innings to lead the\u00a0Cleveland Guardians\u00a0in a 7-0 win over the\u00a0Detroit Tigers\u00a0on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The AL-leading Tigers had won seven of nine games and Cleveland had lost seven of its previous 10<\/p>\n
Bibee allowed just three hits and one walk while striking out eight<\/p>\n
Detroit and Cleveland meet again Friday night<\/p>\n
It was the first meeting between the teams since the Guardians won their\u00a0AL Division Series\u00a0last October.<\/p>\n
The AL-leading Tigers had won seven of nine games and Cleveland had lost seven of its previous 10.<\/p>\n
Bibee (4-4) allowed just three hits and one walk while striking out eight.<\/p>\n
Jack Flaherty (2-6) gave up three runs on three hits and three walks with eight strikeouts over 6 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Flaherty had two strikeouts in the first inning, including the 1,000th of his career. After Kyle Manzardo walked in the fourth, Santana’s double to center put the Guardians up 2-0.<\/p>\n
Tim Herrin replaced Bibee in the eighth and exited with the bases loaded and no outs. Trey Sweeney led off the inning with a walk, Javier Baez followed with an infield single and Justyn-Henry Malloy reached on a hit to center that outfielder Lane Thomas appeared to lose sight of in the lights.<\/p>\n
Cade Smith struck out the next three batters to strand all three runners.<\/p>\n
Cleveland earned a larger cushion in a four-run ninth that got a boost when third baseman Zach McKinstry was charged with a fielding error, allowing Santana to score after he led off with a walk.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Flaherty started strong until Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez singled with one out in the fourth inning when Cleveland broke a scoreless tie with two runs.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Bibee’s eight strikeouts were three more than he had in any of his previous nine starts this season.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Detroit RHP Jackson Jobe (4-0, 4.12 ERA) and Cleveland RHP Slade Cecconi (0-1, 5.40) are the probable pitchers Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014\u00a0Carlos Santana had a two-run double in the fourth inning, Angel Mart\u00ednez hit a solo homer in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,135,147,53,2583,4,169,1944,5193,11140,14984,562,185,594,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-48421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-detroittigers","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","20":"tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","21":"tag-ohio-roh-top-stories","22":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-tigers","25":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114556635997319831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}