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CLEVELAND (AP) — Drew Rasmussen allowed one run over seven innings for his second postseason win, Tampa Bay’s offense kept on constant pressure and the Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 Sunday night to take a 3-2 lead in the AL Championship Series.
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Rays → allow → Series
The Rays will try to capture their third AL pennant and first since 2020 on Monday at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Rays → try → Petersburg
Since the ALCS expanded to seven games in 1985, road teams winning Game 5 for a 3-2 lead have won the series four of five times.
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teams → expand → series
Game 7 if needed would be Tuesday, and the World Series starts Friday at NL champion Milwaukee.
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Series → need → Milwaukee
Cleveland has not won an ALCS when trailing 3-2.
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Cleveland → win → ALCS
Tampa Bay scored single runs in each of the first three innings, the first two off Parker Messick and the third against Tim Herrin.
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Bay → score → Herrin
Rasmussen shut down the Guardians’ offense after allowing two runs over six innings in the opener.
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Rasmussen → shut → opener
After Chase DeLauter’s two-out single in the first, the 31-year-old right-hander retired nine straight batters and allowed only one other baserunner through the sixth.
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hander → retire → sixth
Rasmussen gave up four hits, walked one and struck out six.
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Rasmussen → give → six
He is 2-0 with a 1.29 ERA in three postseason starts, striking out 23 and walking three.
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He → strike → three
Cam Booser and Tyler Wells worked the eighth, with Wells striking out José Ramírez to strand a runner.
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Wells → work → runner
Bryan Baker came in for the ninth and converted his 35th straight save chance, his fifth of this postseason.
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Baker → come → postseason
Jo Adell was on second base when Travis Bazzana hit a game-ending groundout.
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Bazzana → hit → groundout
Steven Kwan had two of Cleveland’s five hits and made two fine defensive plays: He threw out Taylor Walls trying to score from second base on Jonathan Aranda’s fourth-inning single to left and made a leaping catch at the center-field wall on Victor Mesa Jr.‘s eighth-inning drive, saving a run.
Tampa Bay’s leadoff hitter reached base in the first four innings — scoring in the first three frames — and six times overall.
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hitter → have → frames
Rays’ leadoff batters have reached in 10 of 14 innings dating to Saturday.
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batters → reach → Saturday
Yandy Díaz had three hits while Aranda and Liam Hicks both had two hits and drove in a run.
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Aranda → have → run
Díaz scored on a bases-loaded walk by Messick to Jonny DeLuca in the first inning.
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Díaz → score → inning
Díaz led off with a line-drive double over center fielder Petey Halpin that rolled to the wall.
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that → lead → wall
Aranda’s single drove in Ben Williamson for a 2-0 lead in the second, and Hicks looped a curveball from Herrin to center to score Chandler Simpson in the third.
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Hicks → drive → third
Cleveland finally threatened in the seventh when Kwan and Ramírez singled to put runners at the corners and DeLauter grounded an RBI single between first and second.
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DeLauter → threaten → first
Messick had the shortest outing of his big league career and didn’t make it past the third inning for the second time in four postseason starts.
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Messick → have → starts
The 25-year-old left-hander went two innings and allowed two runs, five hits and three walks over two innings, throwing just 34 of 57 pitches for strikes.
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hander → go → strikes