{"id":810046,"date":"2026-09-20T20:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/810046\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:49:01","slug":"guardians-beat-athletics-to-stay-atop-al-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/810046\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians beat Athletics to stay atop AL Central"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Angel Mart\u00ednez homered from both sides of the plate as part of his second career four-hit game, Chase DeLauter had a three-run homer, and the Cleveland Guardians remained in first place in the AL Central with a 12-6 victory over the Athletics on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

It is the second time this month a Guardians’ hitter has homered from both sides of the plate. Brayan Rocchio did it on Sept. 4 against Detroit.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez, who also drove in four runs, had a two-run homer during a five-run first inning and a solo shot in the fourth as the Guardians won their fourth straight. Cleveland (80-75) has a one-game lead over the Chicago White Sox, who defeated Detroit 3-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Guardians also scored five runs in the third on the strength of four doubles, including David Fry’s two-run line drive.<\/p>\n

Cleveland had five players with at least two hits. Slade Cecconi (5-7) worked the last two innings to get the win.<\/p>\n

Donovan Walton had three hits, including a two-run homer in the fifth, and drove in four runs for the Athletics.<\/p>\n

Athletics starter Jacob Lopez (6-5) allowed 10 runs and 10 hits in 2 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Cleveland starter Tanner Bibee went 4 2\/3 innings and gave up six runs on 12 hits.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Cleveland sends RHP Gavin Williams (13-8, 3.78 ERA) to the mound in its last regular-season home game. RHP Jack Perkins (3-11, 6.14) will go for the Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Angel Mart\u00ednez homered from both sides of the plate as part of his second career four-hit game,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[556,560,1769,537,5,135,4,3226,169,1944,5193,562,185,558],"class_list":["post-810046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117305341603694682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810046","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=810046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}