The Cleveland Guardians could not have asked for a better begin in Game 1 of the ALDS Saturday. They scored five runs before the Tigers write downed an out.
Despite not having perestablished a game in a week due to a first-round bye in the savage-card round, the Guardians’ hitters did not see rusty at all.
After blanking the Detroit Tigers in the top of the first inning, Guardians directoff hitter Steven Kwan cforfeitly left the yard for a home run, hitting a ball equitable off the top of the right field wall for a double to get leangs begined. David Fry adhereed Kwan with a walk.
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Cleveland Guardians outfielder Lane Thomas (8) honors with teammates after hitting a three-run home run aacquirest the Detroit Tigers in the first inning of Game 1 in an ALDS at Progressive Field. (Ken Blaze/Imagn Images)
The Guardians had runners on first and second base with no one out, and they were sfinishing their best hitter, Jose Ramirez, to the ptardy.
Ramirez hit a chopper down the third base line that Tigers third baseman Zack McKinstry couldn’t regulate, scoring Kwan on the perestablish and giving the Guardians a 1-0 direct.
Cleanup hitter Josh Naylor oned into right field in the next at-bat to ptardy Fry and give the Guardians a 2-0 direct.
Tigers’ regulater A.J. Hinch had seen enough and erased begining pitcher Tyler Holton from the game after he had not write downed an out thcimpolite four batters, and Reese Olson took the mound.
Olson’s first pitch after go ining the game was not a outstanding one. He threw a hanging fractureing ball over the middle of the ptardy, and outfielder Lane Thomas clobbered it for a three-run home run, giving the Guardians a 5-0 direct.
Cleveland Guardians outfielder Lane Thomas reacts after hitting a three-run home run aacquirest the Detroit Tigers in the first inning in Game 1 of an ALDS of the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Progressive Field. (Ken Blaze/Imagn Images)
The Tigers’ first write downed out of the first inning came on the Guardian’s seventh batter of the inning, when Jhonkensy Noel grounded out.
That was all the offense the Guardians necessitateed in a 7-0 shutout triumph, hancigo ining the Tigers’ offense to equitable four hits.
Guardians begining pitcher Tanner Bibee shut the Tigers down, scattering four hits over 4⅔ shutout innings while striking out six batters.
The Guardians’ bullpen took nurture of the rest, using four relief pitchers to finish the shutout.
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Cleveland Guardians pitcher Tanner Bibee reacts after a strikeout in the second inning aacquirest the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of an ALDS in the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Progressive Field. (Ken Blaze/Imagn Images)
Fry extfinished the Guardians’ direct to 7-0 with a two-run double in the sixth inning, and that is where the score remained.
The Tigers will sfinish out their ace and presumptive AL Cy Young triumphner, Tarik Skubal, to try and turn leangs around Monday after a cimpolite Game 1.
Matthew Boyd gets the begin for the Guardians in Game 2 as they see to get a ordering series direct.
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