CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a three-run homer and had a season-high five RBIs, Dylan Cease scattered four hits over six innings and the Toronto Blue Jays routed the Cleveland Guardians 11-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The Guardians remain in the third American League wild-card position, but their lead over Toronto, Baltimore and Texas was sliced to 1 1\/2 games.<\/p>\n
Cease (10-5), one of the top Cy Young Award candidates, struck out four without a walk and did not allow a runner past second base. The right-hander hasn\u2019t lost since July 20, going 4-0 with a 1.38 ERA in eight starts.<\/p>\n
Guerrero homered in the second against Joey Cantillo (9-8), capping a five-run inning that made it 6-0. The six-time All-Star, who went 3 for 4, has hit all eight of his home runs on the road.<\/p>\n
Rookie Brett Bateman scored three times on Guerrero\u2019s three hits, and Josh Smith belted a solo homer in the eighth off Carlos Hern\u00e1ndez as Toronto evened the series at one win apiece.<\/p>\n
Cease had his 19-start streak with at least seven strikeouts end, one short of the MLB record for a season by Curt Schilling in 1997 and Randy Johnson in 2001. Paul Sewald, Brendon Little and Braydon Fisher wrapped up the six-hitter.<\/p>\n
Cantillo allowed a career-high nine runs in 5 1\/3 innings, but five were unearned on an error by shortstop Angel Genao. Catcher Austin Hedges gave up one run in 1 2\/3 innings for the Guardians.<\/p>\n
Toronto has won four of its last five and is 21-13 since July 27. The 11-run victory margin was its second largest this season.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Blue Jays RHP Jos\u00e9 Soriano (11-7, 3.45 ERA) was set to face Guardians RHP Tanner Bibee (5-14, 3.88 ERA) on Thursday in the series finale. Bibee and Baltimore\u2019s Shane Baz lead the majors in losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a three-run homer and had a season-high five RBIs, Dylan Cease scattered four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,135,51,2565,538,4,169,1944,5193,185,558],"class_list":["post-795637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117206919676125124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795637","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=795637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}