{"id":97325,"date":"2025-06-12T02:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/97325\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T02:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:54:15","slug":"guardians-beat-reds-11-2-to-avoid-season-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/97325\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians beat Reds 11-2 to avoid season sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 Carlos Santana slugged his sixth career grand slam and the Cleveland Guardians beat Cincinnati 11-2 on Wednesday, snapping the Reds&#8217; five-game win streak and denying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/reds-terry-francona-cleveland-return-b5ffc28ed5b564f18211d53284c4afcb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manager Terry Francona<\/a>\u00a0a season sweep of his former team.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians took down the Reds 11-2 Wednesday<br \/>\n<br \/>This snapped a five-game win streak by the Reds and denied a season sweep by manager Terry Francona of his former team<br \/>\n<br \/>Carlos Santana earned his sixth grand slam<br \/>\n<br \/>Nick Martinez will pitch against Keider Montero at Detroit on Friday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1932860847652511778\" rel=\"nofollow\">Santana&#8217;s third-inning slam<\/a>\u00a0came on the 15th anniversary of his major league debut. It was his eighth homer this season and made it 5-0, helping Cleveland salvage the finale of this three-game series. Francona&#8217;s Reds swept the Guardians in three games at Cincinnati last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians had five straight hits to open a four-run sixth for a nine-run lead, including a three-run homer by Lane Thomas. Cleveland&#8217;s 11 runs were a season high.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas&#8217; homer was his first this season after returning from the injured list this week. He had three hits, drove in three runs and scored twice.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez hit an RBI double to extend his career-long on-base streak to 37 games, the longest active streak in the majors. He has a hit in 11 straight games.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Allen (4-4) went six innings and gave up solo homers to Elly De La Cruz and TJ Friedl. He struck out six.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Lodolo (4-5) lasted only 3 1\/3 innings, giving up six runs.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati&#8217;s Christian Encarnacion-Strand was hit on the bill of his helmet by a 97 mph pitch from Emmanuel Clase in the ninth but stayed in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Angel Mart\u00ednez and Thomas singled and Ram\u00edrez was hit by a pitch to set up Sanchez&#8217;s slam.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez hit his 380th career double, passing Earl Averill for third-most in franchise history. He trails Hall of Famers Tris Speaker (486) and Nap Lajoie (424).<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati&#8217;s Nick Martinez (4-6, 3.70 ERA) will pitch against Keider Montero (2-1, 4.30) at Detroit on Friday. Cleveland&#8217;s Gavin Williams (5-3, 3.86) will face Luis Castillo (4-4, 3.31) at Seattle on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Carlos Santana slugged his sixth career grand slam and the Cleveland Guardians beat Cincinnati 11-2 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,135,51,2565,538,4,169,1944,6217,6266,5193,11140,185,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-97325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-clevelandguardians","15":"tag-guardians","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","20":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-top-stories","21":"tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","22":"tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114668140206980734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97325","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=97325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}