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<\/p>\nCLEVELAND \u2014 Angel Martinez belted a grand slam and had a career-high four hits, and rookie Chase DeLauter delivered a two-run double to lift the Cleveland Guardians to a 10-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Martinez launched a 374-foot shot to right off Steven Cruz in the eighth inning, when the Guardians scored five times to blow open what was a 5-2 game. Rhys Hoskins had a career-best three doubles as Cleveland tied its season high with 16 hits.<\/p>\n
Guardians starter Joey Cantillo (1-0) struck out nine over 5 2\/3 innings, allowing one earned run and one unearned run on three hits. Matt Festa worked 1 1\/3 scoreless innings for his first save since July 7, 2022, with Seattle.<\/p>\n
DeLauter, who leads all rookies with five homers and 11 RBIs, drove in Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez and David Fry in the first with a drive off the wall against Cole Ragans (0-3). Hoskins followed with a double that made the Guardians\u2019 lead 3-0.<\/p>\n
Ragans had been struck on his left thumb by a comebacker from Ram\u00edrez, forcing him to exit two batters later after DeLauter\u2019s double. He was charged with three runs in 2\/3 of an inning, later being diagnosed with a contusion.<\/p>\n
The Royals pulled within 4-1 in the fourth on an RBI double by Bobby Witt Jr., and then added a run in the fifth when Lane Thomas scored on an error by Steven Kwan. Cleveland committed two errors after only making one in its first 12 games.<\/p>\n
Ram\u00edrez and Juan Brito also had RBI doubles for the Guardians, who are 3-0-1 in series this season.<\/p>\n
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Cleveland Guardians’ Chase DeLauter watches his ball after hitting a two-run double off Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Cole Ragans during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Cleveland. Credit: AP\/David Dermer<\/p>\n
Kansas City outfielder Tyler Tolbert made his pitching debut with 2\/3 scoreless innings.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Royals: RHP Seth Lugo (1-0, 1.59 ERA) starts Thursday at home against the White Sox.<\/p>\n
Guardians: RHP Slade Cecconi (0-1, 5.23 ERA) takes the ball Friday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Angel Martinez belted a grand slam and had a career-high four hits, and rookie Chase DeLauter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,51,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,2524],"class_list":{"0":"post-670886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland-guardians","10":"tag-kansas","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-royals","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascityroyals","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-royals","17":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371002416190233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670886","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=670886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}