{"id":2010642,"date":"2025-09-10T04:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2010642"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:11:43","slug":"%e2%9a%be-cantillo-pitches-8-innings-ramirez-homers-as-guardians-beat-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/%e2%9a%be-cantillo-pitches-8-innings-ramirez-homers-as-guardians-beat-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u26be Cantillo pitches 8 innings, Ram\u00edrez homers as Guardians beat Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Joey Cantillo allowed four hits in a career-best eight-plus innings, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered, doubled and scored twice, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Tuesday night for their fifth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Cantillo (5-3) struck out five and didn&#8217;t issue a walk. Cade Smith pitched a scoreless ninth for his 12th save for the Guardians, who entered play 2 1\/2 games behind Seattle for the final wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez, who had three hits, hit a solo homer off Royals starter Noah Cameron (7-6) with two outs in the first. David Fry hit the second of back-to-back to doubles to drive in Ram\u00edrez in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron, a 26-year-old rookie, gave up two runs on six hits with eight strikeouts in seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians, who has won six of seven, beat the Royals\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-guardians-score-5675b3be2eb331410784003369761cfa\">10-2<\/a>\u00a0in the series opener Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Witt Jr.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-india-wacha-1893967f5b5a225280c7786db42aa896\">returned<\/a>\u00a0from a three-game absence and Jonathan India was activated off the 10-day IL for Kansas City.<\/p>\n<h2>Key moment<\/h2>\n<p>Cantillo gave up a leadoff single to Kyle Isbel in the ninth and was replaced by Smith, who got Mikael Garcia to fly out. Isbel moved to second on a wild pitch and advanced to third when Witt singled before Smith struck out Vinnie Pasquantino and Salvador Perez to end the game.<\/p>\n<h2>Key stat<\/h2>\n<p>The Guardians clinched the season series \u2014 and the head-to-head tiebreaker for any postseason implications \u2014 over the Royals.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source jcpost.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Joey Cantillo allowed four hits in a career-best eight-plus innings, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez homered, doubled and scored twice, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Tuesday night for their fifth straight victory. Cantillo (5-3) struck out five and didn&#8217;t issue a walk. Cade Smith pitched a scoreless ninth for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}