Cleveland Guardians at Houston Astros

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Cleveland Guardians

43-48, 23-25 Away

Final
4 - 2

Houston Astros

55-38, 32-17 Home

Guardians sweep Astros with back-to-back homers from Martínez and Ramírez

Guardians complete the sweep of the Astros

It’s the first time the Guardians, who entered the series on a 10-game skid, have won three in a row since a four-game winning streak from May 21-24.

Slade Cecconi (4-4) allowed five hits and two runs with a career-best nine strikeouts in 7-plus innings for the win. Paul Sewald pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save.

Martínez homered for a second straight at-bat with his shot to the Crawford Boxes with one out in the first inning. His grand slam with two outs in the 10th inning Tuesday night lifted Cleveland to a 10-6 win.

Four pitches after Martinez's homer Wednesday, Ramírez also connected off Brandon Walter (1-2) to make it 2-0. Walter settled in after that, retiring the next 17 batters, with seven strikeouts before Bennett Sousa took over to start the seventh.

Ramírez and Carlos Santana hit consecutive singles with no outs in the inning before David Fry walked to load the bases. Johnathan Rodríguez then singled to score two and extend the lead to 4-0.

The Astros had managed just four singles when Taylor Trammell walked with no outs in the eighth and scored on a double by Mauricio Dubón that cut the lead to 4-1. There were two outs in the inning when Jose Altuve’s RBI double made it 4-2.

The AL West-leading Astros went 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position to cap this disappointing series which came after they swept the Dodgers in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Key moment Martínez and Ramírez had back-to-back homers in the first.

Key stat Ramírez, who dropped out of next week’s All-Star game Wednesday to rehab a nagging Achilles injury, has four homers and seven RBI this month.

Up next LHP Logan Allen (5-7, 4.07 ERA) will start for Cleveland in the opener of a four-game series against the Chicago White Sox Thursday night. The Astros are off Thursday and haven’t announced their rotation for their weekend series against the Rangers.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Hummel struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Diaz grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Caratini flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Sewald relieved Junis
	9th Inning	Noel in right field.
	9th Inning	Rodríguez grounded out to shortstop.

Statistics

CLE		HOU
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	9
7	Strikeouts	11
4	Runs Batted In	2
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	6
2	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	32
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
5	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
15	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
135	Pitches	117
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
12	Total Bases	8
33	Plate Appearances	34
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	2
2.7	Runs Created	1.3
.194	Batting Average	.188
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.387	Slugging Percentage	.250
.290	Secondary Average	.125
.219	On Base Percentage	.235
.606	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.485
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
2.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.3
30.0	Batter Rating	18.0
15.5	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.09	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.44
.194	Isolated Power	.063
0.14	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.18
.030	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.059
.097	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.063
8.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
78.0	MLB Rating	68.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0