{"id":2364647,"date":"2026-04-08T20:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2364647"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:24:12","slug":"angel-martinez-hits-a-grand-slam-guardians-rout-royals-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/angel-martinez-hits-a-grand-slam-guardians-rout-royals-10-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Martinez hits a grand slam, Guardians rout Royals 10-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Angel Martinez belted a grand slam and had a career-high four hits, and rookie Chase DeLauter delivered a two-run double to lift the Cleveland Guardians to a 10-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez launched a 374-foot shot to right off Steven Cruz in the eighth inning, when the Guardians scored five times to blow open what was a 5-2 game. Rhys Hoskins had a career-best three doubles as Cleveland tied its season high with 16 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians starter Joey Cantillo (1-0) struck out nine over 5 2\/3 innings, allowing one earned run and one unearned run on three hits. Matt Festa worked 1 1\/3 scoreless innings for his first save since July 7, 2022, with Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>DeLauter, who leads all rookies with five homers and 11 RBIs, drove in Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez and David Fry in the first with a drive off the wall against Cole Ragans (0-3). Hoskins followed with a double that made the Guardians\u2019 lead 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Ragans had been struck on his left thumb by a comebacker from Ram\u00edrez, forcing him to exit two batters later after DeLauter\u2019s double. He was charged with three runs in 2\/3 of an inning, later being diagnosed with a contusion.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals pulled within 4-1 in the fourth on an RBI double by Bobby Witt Jr., and then added a run in the fifth when Lane Thomas scored on an error by Steven Kwan. Cleveland committed two errors after only making one in its first 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez and Juan Brito also had RBI doubles for the Guardians, who are 3-0-1 in series this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City outfielder Tyler Tolbert made his pitching debut with 2\/3 scoreless innings.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>Royals: RHP Seth Lugo (1-0, 1.59 ERA) starts Thursday at home against the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: RHP Slade Cecconi (0-1, 5.23 ERA) takes the ball Friday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\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 apnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Angel Martinez belted a grand slam and had a career-high four hits, and rookie Chase DeLauter delivered a two-run double to lift the Cleveland Guardians to a 10-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday. 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