Guardians vs Rays Score : Game 2

Guardians vs Rays: Four crazy stats from Cleveland’s marathon victory in Wild Card Series

Published by Oculus News Network
October 08 , 2022  Saturday

Guardians vs Rays : Cleveland Guardians defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0 in a 15-inning marathon (field rating) on Saturday in Game 2 in their American League Wild Card Series. The Guardians, as a end result, will develop to the AL Division Series to play a satisfactory-of-five set in opposition to the New York Yankees. The Rays, meanwhile, are heading home to begin their offseason after being swept within the great-of-three series. Tampa Bay scored just one run in  video games (24 innings)

Outfielder Oscar Gonzalez homered to steer off the bottom of the fifteenth in opposition to former Guardian Corey Kluber. That came after the Rays had runners at the corners and one out inside the pinnacle of the inning. Sam Hentges became able to coerce strikeouts from each Francisco Mejia and Jose Siri, ending the danger on six pitches.

The victory become no longer effortlessly attained. Rather, the Guardians and Rays have been scoreless getting into the fifteenth inning, making it the first postseason game ever to attain such depths with out every body crossing the plate. The subsequent longest scoreless postseason recreation, the opener of the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds Wild Card Series in 2020, changed into scoreless via 12 half innings. The Braves then won inside the bottom of the thirteenth.

This contest now serves because the longest playoff sport in both franchise’s records.

As a way of paying tribute to the postseason’s first marathon sport, here are four wild statistics that sum up how an awful lot pitching dominated the afternoon.

1. The longest scoreless playoff recreation ever

While this became handiest the second postseason game to ever be scoreless heading into the 12th or later, it changed into the sixth postseason recreation to be scoreless via 10 innings, consistent with MLB.Com’s Sarah Langs. This changed into just the second one time because the last round of growth (1998) that a playoff sport turned into scoreless into greater innings:

That aforementioned Reds-Braves game saw the Braves win 1-0 on a stroll-off Freddie Freeman unmarried inside the backside of the 13th. The Braves might also win the subsequent game via a 5-0 margin, ending the collection before the Reds ought to rating. The Rays can take solace in knowing they scored one run on a Jose Siri homer in Game 1.

2. A new record for combined strikeouts

Again, pitching dominated the afternoon. Need extra evidence? Fine, first-class. The  pitching staffs combined for 39 strikeouts, a brand new postseason report. (The Guardians had been responsible for 20 of these, that means the 2 sides were almost split 50/50.)

There had been 104 plate appearances taken at some point of the game, meaning that 37.5 percent of them led to a strikeout. For perspective, the certified pitcher with the very best strikeout percentage throughout the normal season changed into San Francisco Giants left-hander Carlos Rodón. Rodón punched out 33.4 percent of the batters he noticed.

3. The pitchers mixed for a 0.31 ERA

Sometimes a sport simply needs the reprinting of stat traces as a method of organising a point. Let’s try this below via displaying what every crew’s pitching team of workers controlled:

Rays: Eight pitchers,14 innings, 5 hits allowed (four singles), one run, 3 walks, 19 strikeouts
Guardians: Eight pitchers, 15 innings, six hits allowed (all singles), zero runs, five walks, 20 strikeouts
Combined, it’s sixteen pitchers, 29 innings, eleven hits (10 singles), one run, eight walks, and 39 strikeouts.

4. Platinum sombreros for both sides

Entering the day, three gamers had ever recorded “platinum sombreros,” or five-strikeout video games inside the playoffs: George Pipgras (1932), Reggie Sanders (1995), and Harrison Bader (2020). As Timothy Burke stated on Twitter, this sport noticed  gamers join that institution: Guardians 2d baseman Andrés Giménez and Rays outfielder Jose Siri.

Giménez and Siri combined to go 0 for 11 with 10 strikeouts. Credit to Siri for handling to put a ball into play: he hit a fly out to center within the 11th.