{"id":809650,"date":"2026-09-20T08:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/809650\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:39:15","slug":"martinez-leads-guardians-against-the-athletics-following-4-hit-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/809650\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez leads Guardians against the Athletics following 4-hit performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/oakland-athletics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> (61-94, fourth in the AL West) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (80-75, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Cleveland; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jack-perkins-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Perkins<\/a> (3-11, 6.14 ERA, 1.48 WHIP, 127 strikeouts); Guardians: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/gavin-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Williams<\/a> (13-8, 3.78 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 235 strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LINE: Guardians -236, Athletics +190; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians take on the Athletics after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/angel-martinez-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angel Martinez&#8217;s<\/a> four-hit game on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Cleveland is 80-75 overall and 40-40 at home. Guardians pitchers have a collective 3.81 ERA, which ranks fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Athletics have a 61-94 record overall and a 32-48 record in road games. Athletics hitters are batting a collective .244, which ranks fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Sunday&#8217;s game is the sixth time these teams square off this season. The Guardians are up 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chase-delauter-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chase DeLauter<\/a> has a .290 batting average to lead the Guardians, and has 28 doubles, three triples and 15 home runs. Martinez is 13 for 39 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jeff-mcneil-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff McNeil<\/a> has 22 doubles and eight home runs while hitting .265 for the Athletics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/lawrence-butler-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Butler<\/a> is 9 for 38 with a double and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 7-3, .267 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Athletics: 3-7, .214 batting average, 6.38 ERA, outscored by 35 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">INJURIES: Guardians: Colin Holderman: 15-Day IL (wrist), Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Athletics: Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), J.T. Ginn: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/justin-sterner-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Sterner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Gage Jump: 15-Day IL (left shoulder), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/luis-severino-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 60-Day IL (testicle), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jacob-wilson-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nick Kurtz: 60-Day IL (thumb), Tyler Soderstrom: 60-Day IL (hip), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/mark-leiter-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 60-Day IL (hip), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics (61-94, fourth in the AL West) vs. Cleveland Guardians (80-75, first in the AL Central) Cleveland; Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[6197,537,5,22912,51,75686,2078,26058,1950,1332,6616,4810,1327,19,890,4,3226],"class_list":["post-809650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-angel-martinez","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-chase-delauter","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-williams","tag-jack-perkins","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-jeff-mcneil","tag-justin-sterner","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117302471129062762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809650","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=809650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}