{"id":80132,"date":"2026-10-17T23:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/rays-punish-cleveland-defensive-lapses-to-square-alcs-at-two-games-apiece\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T23:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:54:48","slug":"rays-punish-cleveland-defensive-lapses-to-square-alcs-at-two-games-apiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/rays-punish-cleveland-defensive-lapses-to-square-alcs-at-two-games-apiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays punish Cleveland defensive lapses to square ALCS at two games apiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Rays defeat Guardians 7-3 to level ALCS at 2-2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>D\u00edaz seals victory with ninth-inning home run<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Tampa Bay and Cleveland meet again on Sunday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jonathan Aranda\u2019s single led to two runs in the seventh inning when the ball got by right fielder Chase DeLauter, Nick Martinez pitched five and one-third innings for his first postseason win and the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 on Saturday night to even the AL Championship Series at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 of the best-of-seven matchup is Sunday in Cleveland before the series shifts back to St Petersburg, Florida, on Monday. There is no off day for travel after Friday\u2019s game was postponed by rain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/17\/rays-guardians-alcs-game-four-yandy-diaz-world-series\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rays defeat Guardians 7-3 to level ALCS at 2-2 D\u00edaz seals victory with ninth-inning home run Tampa Bay and Cleveland meet again on Sunday Jonathan Aranda\u2019s single led to two runs in the seventh inning when the ball got by right fielder Chase DeLauter, Nick Martinez pitched five and one-third innings for his first postseason &#8230; <a title=\"Rays punish Cleveland defensive lapses to square ALCS at two games apiece\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/rays-punish-cleveland-defensive-lapses-to-square-alcs-at-two-games-apiece\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rays punish Cleveland defensive lapses to square ALCS at two games apiece\">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-80132","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\/80132","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=80132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}