Texas Rangers at Cleveland Guardians

· Major League Baseball

Texas Rangers

81-81, 33-48 Away

Final
8 - 9

Cleveland Guardians

88-74, 45-36 Home

Rocchio's 3-run homer in the 10th gives AL Central champion Guardians a 9-8 win over Rangers

Guardians walk off Rangers in Bochy's last game as Texas manager

When the Detroit Tigers lost 4-3 at Boston earlier in the day, the Guardians completed the largest comeback to win a division or league championship in major league history.

Texas took an 8-5 lead on pinch-hitter Rowdy Tellez's three-run homer off Zak Kent (1-0) in the top of the 10th.

But with George Valera as the automatic runner on second base, Bo Naylor hit an RBI double to bring Cleveland within two. Petey Halpin drew a walk before Rocchio drove a 1-2 fastball from Jose Corniell (0-1) off the right-field foul pole to give the Guardians their ninth walk-off win this season.

The Guardians (88-74) trailed 5-4 in the middle of the eighth when they found out they were division champs after Detroit’s Parker Meadows flied out to Boston left fielder Jarren Duran. If the two teams had ended up tied, Cleveland still would have won the division based on the head-to-head tiebreaker after taking the season series.

Rocchio tied it at 5 when his sacrifice fly drove in Naylor in the eighth.

The Guardians will host the Tigers in Game 1 of their best-of-three Wild Card Series on Tuesday.

Cleveland was 40-48 and 15 1/2 games behind Detroit on July 6 before beginning the long climb back.

The 1914 Boston Braves were 15 games back in the National League on July 4 and rallied to win by 10 1/2 games, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Since baseball went to division play in 1969, the biggest deficit overcome had been 14 games by the 1978 New York Yankees to win the AL East.

It is Cleveland's 13th AL Central title, but the first time it has gone back-to-back since winning three straight from 2016-18.

Key moment The Guardians trailed 5-3 going into the seventh before Jhonkensy Noel homered off Hoby Milner to bring them within a run.

Key stat With the game going to extra innings, the Rangers and Guardians were the final game of the regular season to be completed.

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Scoring Summary

	10th Inning	Rocchio homered to right (380 feet), Naylor scored and Halpin scored.
	10th Inning	Halpin walked.
	10th Inning	Naylor doubled to center, Valera scored.
	10th Inning	Tellez at first base.
	10th Inning	McKinney lined out to left.
	10th Inning	Heim grounded out to first.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		CLE
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	1
0	Ground Balls	0
8	Strikeouts	9
8	Runs Batted In	9
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	11
1	Stolen Bases	5
2	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
8	Runs	9
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	2
39	At Bats	36
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	3
0	Fly Balls	0
0	Caught Stealing	0
157	Pitches	203
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
13	Total Bases	20
44	Plate Appearances	43
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
4	Extra Base Hits	5
3.7	Runs Created	8.8
.179	Batting Average	.306
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.333	Slugging Percentage	.556
.231	Secondary Average	.500
.256	On Base Percentage	.372
.589	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.928
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
3.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.8
49.0	Batter Rating	64.0
39.0	At Bats Per Home Run	18.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.57	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.72
.154	Isolated Power	.250
0.25	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.44
.045	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.093
.051	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.194
16.0	Runs Produced	18.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
86.5	MLB Rating	102.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0