{"id":80038,"date":"2026-10-15T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/petey-halpins-two-run-homer-lifts-guardians-past-rays-for-2-1-alcs-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:54:53","slug":"petey-halpins-two-run-homer-lifts-guardians-past-rays-for-2-1-alcs-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/petey-halpins-two-run-homer-lifts-guardians-past-rays-for-2-1-alcs-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Petey Halpin\u2019s two-run homer lifts Guardians past Rays for 2-1 ALCS lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Halpin\u2019s first playoff homer puts Cleveland ahead<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Williams strikes out nine as Guardians win 3-2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Cleveland bullpen retires 11 of final 12 Rays batters<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Petey Halpin hit a go-ahead two-run homer, Gavin Williams struck out nine over five innings and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series on Thursday to take a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 of the best-of-seven series is scheduled for Friday, though rain is forecast.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/15\/guardians-rays-alcs-game-3-petey-halpin-home-run\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halpin\u2019s first playoff homer puts Cleveland ahead Williams strikes out nine as Guardians win 3-2 Cleveland bullpen retires 11 of final 12 Rays batters Petey Halpin hit a go-ahead two-run homer, Gavin Williams struck out nine over five innings and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 in Game 3 of the American &#8230; <a title=\"Petey Halpin\u2019s two-run homer lifts Guardians past Rays for 2-1 ALCS lead\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/petey-halpins-two-run-homer-lifts-guardians-past-rays-for-2-1-alcs-lead\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Petey Halpin\u2019s two-run homer lifts Guardians past Rays for 2-1 ALCS lead\">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-80038","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\/80038","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=80038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}