{"id":666386,"date":"2026-04-06T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:01:14","slug":"guardians-down-cubs-6-5-to-split-doubleheader-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666386\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians down Cubs 6-5 to split doubleheader"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0CJ Kayfus homered and Gabriel Arias hit an RBI single in the eighth inning as the Cleveland Guardians rallied to beat the Chicago Cubs 6-5 and split a doubleheader Sunday.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Shut out 1-0 in the opener, the Guardians were six outs from being swept when Kayfus, who entered as a pinch-hitter in the sixth, homered off Jacob Webb (0-1) to tie it 4
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Guardians star third baseman Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez played in his 1,619th game, tying him with Terry Turner for the most in club history
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Dansby Swanson hit a two-run homer and Matt Shaw and Happ added solo shots for Chicago in Game 2<\/p>\n

Shut out 1-0 in the opener, the Guardians were six outs from being swept when Kayfus, who entered as a pinch-hitter in the sixth, homered off Jacob Webb (0-1) to tie it 4.<\/p>\n

Rookie Chase DeLauter followed with a single and Rhys Hoskins walked before Arias delivered his second run-scoring single of Game 2. Austin Hedges singles in a run to put Cleveland up 6-4.<\/p>\n

Scott Armstrong (1-0) allowed a tiebreaking homer but picked up the win. Cade Smith gave up an RBI single to Ian Happ in the ninth but stranded two for his third save.<\/p>\n

Dansby Swanson hit a two-run homer and Matt Shaw and Happ added solo shots for Chicago in Game 2.<\/p>\n

Despite getting just two hits,\u00a0the Cubs won the opener 1-0<\/a>\u00a0as starter Edward Cabrera and three relievers combined on a one-hitter.<\/p>\n

Cleveland\u2019s lone hit in Game 1 came sixth when Kayfus led off the sixth with a drive to right that carried over outfielder Michael Conforto\u2019s head. The three combined hits between the teams are the fewest in a game at Progressive Field, which opened in 1994.<\/p>\n

In the second game, Happ put the Cubs up 4-3 with his fourth homer. He had gone 0 for 11 with nine strikeouts in the series before connecting off Armstrong.<\/p>\n

Blanked over the previous 14 innings, the Guardians finally strung some hits together in the sixth and tied it 3 on RBIs from Kayfus, DeLauter and Arias.<\/p>\n

Guardians star third baseman Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez played in his 1,619th game, tying him with Terry Turner for the most in club history.<\/p>\n

Up next\n<\/p>\n

Cubs: RHP Jameson Taillon (0-0) starts the opener of a three-game series at Tampa Bay against Shane McClanahan (0-1, 3.86 ERA).<\/p>\n

Guardians: Tanner Bibee (0-1, 4.00) takes on Kansas City’s Michael Wacha (0-0) on Monday in the first of three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0CJ Kayfus homered and Gabriel Arias hit an RBI single in the eighth inning as the Cleveland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,135,4,169,1944,5193,11140,14984,562,185,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-666386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ohio","16":"tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","17":"tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","18":"tag-ohio-roh-top-stories","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116357895840825775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666386","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=666386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}