Cleveland Guardians at Los Angeles Dodgers

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Cleveland Guardians

4-3, 4-3 Away

Final
4 - 1

Los Angeles Dodgers

4-2, 4-2 Home

Williams outpitches Yamamoto, and Ramírez hits 1st homer of season as Guardians top Dodgers 4-1

Guardians win rubber match with Dodgers to take the series

Gabriel Arias also went deep for the Guardians, who took two of three games in the series from the two-time defending champions.

Williams (1-1) walked three and allowed only two hits, both singles by Andy Pages. Freddie Freeman homered off Cade Smith with two outs in the ninth, spoiling Cleveland's shutout bid.

Williams overpowered the Dodgers from the outset and faced just one batter more than the minimum through five innings. He ran into his only trouble in the sixth when Pages led off with a single and Alex Freeland worked a walk to bring Shohei Ohtani to the plate as the potential go-ahead run.

The 6-foot-6 right-hander induced a grounder from Ohtani on the first pitch for a 4-6-3 double play and got Kyle Tucker to fly out to end the inning.

Williams completed his night with a perfect seventh, punctuated by striking out Will Smith swinging on an elevated 96 mph fastball.

Ohtani also struck out against left-hander Erik Sabrowski with runners at second and third to end the eighth. Ohtani went 0 for 3 with a walk at the plate, extending his on-base streak to a career-best 37 games since last August.

Yamamoto (1-1) pitched six innings, allowing four hits and two runs. He walked one and struck out two.

The loss dampened a historic night for the Dodgers, who became the first team to start a Japanese-born pitcher in three consecutive games. Roki Sasaki took the ball in the series opener and Ohtani won the middle game.

Up next LHP Joey Cantillo (0-0) starts Cleveland’s home opener Friday against the Chicago Cubs.

Dodgers RHP Emmet Sheehan (0-0) starts the opener of a three-series at Washington on Friday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Smith flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Freeman homered to center (407 feet).
	9th Inning	Betts flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Tucker flied out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Smith relieved Sabrowski
	9th Inning	Schneemann grounded out to second.

Statistics

CLE		LAD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	8
5	Strikeouts	12
3	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	5
1	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	1
2	Ground Into Double Play	3
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
30	At Bats	29
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
9	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	9
1	Caught Stealing	0
148	Pitches	126
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	0
13	Total Bases	9
34	Plate Appearances	32
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
3.1	Runs Created	1.1
.200	Batting Average	.172
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.433	Slugging Percentage	.310
.333	Secondary Average	.241
.294	On Base Percentage	.250
.727	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.560
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
3.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.1
29.0	Batter Rating	14.0
15.0	At Bats Per Home Run	29.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.35	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.94
.233	Isolated Power	.138
0.60	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.25
.088	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.094
.133	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.069
7.0	Runs Produced	2.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
78.8	MLB Rating	66.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0