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05/12 20:06 CDT Angel Martinez homers, Guardians strike out 13 and top Angels
3-2 to continue home dominance of LA
Angel Martinez homers, Guardians strike out 13 and top Angels 3-2 to continue
home dominance of LA
By TOM WITHERS
Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) --- Angel Martinez homered and Cleveland's pitchers struck out
13 as the Guardians kept up their home mastery of the Los Angeles Angels with a
3-2 victory on Tuesday night.
Martinez, Patrick Bailey and Bryan Rocchio drove in runs for Cleveland, which
improved to 29-4 against the Angels at Progressive Field since 2015. The
Guardians have won the first two games in the series despite being outhit twice.
Vaughn Grissom homered for the Angels, who dropped to 8-17 on the road
Cleveland starter Slade Cecconi held LA scoreless for four innings while
striking out a season-high seven. Hunter Gaddis (1-1) worked 1 1/3 innings and
Cade Smith got his second four-out save this season and 12th im 14 chances
overall.
Martinez put the Guardians up in the third against Walbert Urea (1-4) with his
sixth homer, a shot into the right-field seats.
He nearly homered again in the fifth, but was robbed by right fielder Jo Adell,
who made a leaping catch at the wall. However, the shot advanced Daniel
Schneeman to third and he scored on Bailey's groundout.
The Angels pulled to 2-1 in the sixth on pinch-hitter Oswald Peraza's triple
and a sacrifice fly from Adell.
Los Angeles threatened in the seventh against Eric Sabrowski, who yielded two
walks but struck out the side.
Rocchio's sac fly in the seventh made it 3-1 before Grissom's second homer
pulled the Angels within one in the eighth.
Guardians manager Stephen Vogt was back in the dugout after missing two games
with an upper respiratory issue.
The Guardians announced the death of longtime ballpark public address announcer
Bob Tayek. He had been the in-game voice at Progressive Field since 1999 before
stepping away this season for health reasons.
UP NEXT
Angels LHP Reid Detmers (1-3, 4.33 ERA) starts the series finale against LHP
Parker Messick (4-1, 2.30), who faces LA for the first time.
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