{"id":79810,"date":"2026-10-10T22:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/williams-strikes-out-12-as-guardians-blank-white-sox-to-complete-alds-comeback\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T22:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:23:02","slug":"williams-strikes-out-12-as-guardians-blank-white-sox-to-complete-alds-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/williams-strikes-out-12-as-guardians-blank-white-sox-to-complete-alds-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams strikes out 12 as Guardians blank White Sox to complete ALDS comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Williams fans 12 as Cleveland win decisive Game 5<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez\u2019s two-run homer provides only scoring<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Guardians to face Rays for place in World Series<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gavin Williams struck out 12, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered on a pitch just above home plate and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Saturday night to complete a comeback from a 2-0 deficit in their best-of-five American League Division Series.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland open the American League Championship Series at Tampa Bay on Monday night, seeking their first World Series appearance since 2016. The Guardians\/Indians franchise have not won the title since 1948, the longest drought among MLB teams.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/10\/cleveland-guardians-chicago-white-sox-alds-game-five-gavin-williams\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams fans 12 as Cleveland win decisive Game 5 Ram\u00edrez\u2019s two-run homer provides only scoring Guardians to face Rays for place in World Series Gavin Williams struck out 12, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered on a pitch just above home plate and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Saturday night to complete a &#8230; <a title=\"Williams strikes out 12 as Guardians blank White Sox to complete ALDS comeback\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/williams-strikes-out-12-as-guardians-blank-white-sox-to-complete-alds-comeback\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Williams strikes out 12 as Guardians blank White Sox to complete ALDS comeback\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}