Guardians walk off Rays in historic extra-inning win, advance to play Yankees

The Guardians and Rays made MLB postseason historical past.

The 2 sides carried a scoreless affair into the 14th inning in Recreation 2 of their wild-card conflict Saturday afternoon. It was the primary playoff sport in MLB historical past to achieve the 14th inning with no run, based on ESPN Stats & Data.

They subsequently took the identical rating to the fifteenth inning, however that’s the place it ended, with the Guardians’ Oscar Gonzalez hitting a walk-off solo house run to present Cleveland the win.

Triston McKenzie
Triston McKenzie pitched six scoreless innings for the Guardians.
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The victory additionally goes down because the longest playoff sport in 4 years. The Dodgers’ 3-2 win over the Crimson Sox in Recreation 3 of the 2018 World Collection went 18 innings.

Guardians starter Triston McKenzie and Rays starter Tyler Glasnow tossed six and 5 scoreless innings, respectively, and had been adopted by myriad shutdown relievers.

The Guardians will face the Yankees within the ALDS starting on Tuesday.

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