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03/29 00:40 CDT Guardians' Chase DeLauter hits 4th home run in 3rd career game,
Guardians beat Mariners 6-5
Guardians' Chase DeLauter hits 4th home run in 3rd career game, Guardians beat
Mariners 6-5
By ANDREW DESTIN
AP Sports Writer
SEATTLE (AP) --- Rookie outfielder Chase DeLauter hit his fourth career home
run to give Cleveland the lead for good in the 10th inning, and the Guardians
beat the Seattle Mariners 6-5 on Friday night.
DeLauter, who Thursday became the fifth player in the franchise's 126-year
history to hit a home run in his first career regular-season at-bat, extended
his arms on an elevated fastball from Mariners closer Andrs Muoz (0-1) and
deposited it beyond the left-field wall at T-Mobile Park for a two-run home run
that made it 6-3.
DeLauter became the third player in major league history to hit a home run in
each of his first three games, joining Seattle's Kyle Lewis (2019) and
Colorado's Trevor Story (four straight in 2016).
Julio Rodrguez hit a two-out, two-strike RBI single in the bottom of the ninth
inning off Cade Smith (1-0) that made it 3-3.
Luke Raley homered for the third consecutive game, a two-run shot in the bottom
of the 10th. Connor Brogdon, who came on to start the inning, struck out Leo
Rivas and Cole Young to end it and earned his first save of the season.
Mariners starter Bryan Woo threw five scoreless innings before Cleveland pushed
two runs across in the sixth, first on an RBI double by Jos Ramrez and then
on an run-scoring single by Kyle Manzardo.
Ramrez joined Tris Speaker (486) and Nap Lajoie (424) as the only players with
400 or more doubles in Cleveland's 126-year franchise history.
Woo pitched six innings and gave up two runs with nine strikeouts.
Seattle's Cal Raleigh got his first his first hit of the season with an RBI
single in the first inning. The 2025 AL MVP runner-up, Raleigh struck out in
each of his first eight at-bats to start the season.
Up next
Slade Cecconi gets the ball for the Guardians in the final game of the
four-game series against Emerson Hancock in the season debut for both starters.
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