Rays beat Guardians 7-3 in ALCS Game 4: series level at 2-2
Jonathan Aranda drove in two and scored the go-ahead run as Tampa Bay beat Cleveland 7-3 in Game 4 of the ALCS on Saturday, levelling the series at 2-2 with Game 5 on Sunday.
CLEVELAND — Jonathan Aranda had three hits, drove in two runs and scored the go-ahead run as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Saturday, levelling the best-of-seven series at two games apiece, Reuters reported.
Caminero’s RBI double in the sixth broke a 1-1 tie, scoring Aranda off Daniel Espino to put Tampa Bay 2-1 up. The Rays then scored three times in the seventh: Aranda’s single brought home two runs after a Chase DeLauter error, and Chandler Simpson’s sacrifice fly off Slade Cecconi stretched the lead to 5-1.
Cleveland rallied in the bottom of the seventh, with Travis Bazzana’s solo homer and Brayan Rocchio’s RBI single off Ian Seymour cutting the deficit to 5-3 with the tying run coming to the plate. But Yandy Díaz put the game away with a two-run homer off Matt Festa in the top of the ninth.
Starter Nick Martínez earned the win with 5⅓ innings of one-run, two-hit ball, retiring 11 straight batters between the first and fifth innings.
The series is guaranteed to return to Florida: Game 5 is Sunday at 5 p.m. ET at Progressive Field, with Game 6 on Monday at Tropicana Field, USA Today reported.
Read next: Guardians edge Rays 3-2 in ALCS Game 3 · ALCS Game 4 postponed by rain in Cleveland · more in the MLB hub.
More on this topic: all Sport stories
