Guardians Break Rangers Wide Open in Second Inning, Never Look Back in Series Finale
Guardians Break Rangers Wide Open in Second Inning, Never Look Back in Series Finale
After recording just three hits in the month of June, a three-run blast from David Fry gave the Guardians the edge they needed to secure a win on Wednesday.Cade Cracas|
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Cleveland GuardiansSometimes, all it takes is one big explosion to knock a team on it's behind.
On Wednesday, July 1, the Cleveland Guardians were able to take down the Texas Rangers 9-4 to secure a series finale win at Progressive Field. Following back-to-back losses to begin the series, the Guardians' offense came to play, posting all five runs in the second inning to give them an early edge.
From there, a combination of good defense and solid pitching guided the team to it's 45th win of the campaign.
Starting pitcher Joey Cantillo would get through five innings, appearing in the sixth inning for just one batter, before exiting. He finished with three hits and four walks allowed, tacking two earned runs on the board while also striking out four batters.
Final line for Cantillo:
3 Hits Allowed
1 Run Allowed
1 Earned Run Allowed
5 Walks Allowed (Career High)
4 Strikeouts
93 Pitches. #GuardsBall https://t.co/LFcPjCJgCm— Cade Cracas (@CracasCade) July 1, 2026
"Obviously, Hog [Austin Hedges] is our leader. He's having a great year, offensively, defensively," manager Stephen Vogt said. "Joey was good. He kind of started to get a little erratic, but Hog brought him back, centered, battled through and gave us five plus. That was huge..."
Fortunately, while he did allow a few runs, that second inning was enough to buffer the scoreboard for the Guardians.
"When we put up runs like that, we know we are going to win a lot of games," Daniel Schneemann, who played a role in the Guardians' surge that frame, said. "I am sure our pitchers appreciate it when we put some runs up like that on the board, but yeah, that is what we are trying to do as an offense. It gives us a lot of confidence."
To begin the second, Brayan Rocchio singled to get on the bags, blowing a ball into left field. Following Rocchio, Gabriel Arias, who has had some ups and downs at the plate since his return from injury just a few weeks ago, singled to right field, advancing Rocchio to third.
With runners at the corners and no outs, Kahlil Watson would strike out, but Austin Hedges would come up to the plate next. He dropped a sacrifice bunt down right in front of home plate, grinding out a sprint to first to be safe while Rocchio dove into home and scored the opening run.
Schneemann would then walk, before a wild pitch during David Fry's at-bat scored Arias.
Fry would work his way into a six-pitch count, before seeing a 96.5 mph fastball towards the opposite side of the strike zone, sending it into right field and over the wall. His three-run home run, which brought Hedges and Schneemann home, gave the Guardians a whopping five-run advantage.
The dominant inning for the Guardians would eventually end after Chase DeLauter grounded out and Rhys Hoskins struck out.
Through the next six innings, Austin Hedges would belt a two-run homer, Steven Kwan would triple, Kahlil Watson would double and four others would record knocks. They added two runs in the seventh following Kwan's triple to give a bit of a cushion to the scoreline, and then Hedges' two would be tacked on in the eighth.
Steven Kwan triples and the #Guardians have a runner at third with no outs to begin the bottom of the seventh. DeLauter to the plate.#GuardsBall
— Cade Cracas (@CracasCade) July 1, 2026
Fortunately, while the pitching staff did waver a bit in the middle to late innings, including a home run given up by Erik Sabrowski, there wasn't enough movement to throw the Guardians in the bin.
Getting a win ahead of a critical American League Central series is big, especially with recent ups and downs plaguing the team.
The Guardians, shutting the door on the Rangers series, will return to the diamond on Thursday, July 2, against the Chicago White Sox at 6:40 p.m. EST. Keeping with the recent trend, they'll be right back at Progressive Field for the four-game series.
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CADE CRACASCade Cracas is a sports media professional with experience in play-by-play, broadcasting and digital storytelling. He is a recent graduate of Ashland University with degrees in digital media production and journalism.
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Jaylen Brown traded to 76ers: Celtics star heading to Philadelphia for Paul George, draft picks, per report
The Boston Celtics are trading Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks, according to ESPN.
The stunning deal marks the end of Brown's enormously successful 10-season run in Boston. The No. 3 overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft made five All-Star teams with the Celtics. He averaged at least 20 points for seven consecutive seasons, took the Celtics to the Eastern Conference Finals six times, the NBA Finals twice, and won Finals MVP as Boston won its 18th NBA championship in 2024. Now, he will continue his career in a rival city alongside a core of Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe.
Brown played alongside Jayson Tatum since Boston drafted the latter in 2017, but rumors about the Celtics splitting up the pair were common for practically their entire run. The Celtics were linked to a number of superstars like Anthony Davis and Kevin Durant over the years, but never pulled the trigger on a Brown trade during his joint ascent with Tatum. The Celtics were rewarded for that faith with the 2024 title, but things slowly broke down from there.
Tatum tore his Achilles during Boston's title defense in 2025, and he missed most of the 2025-26 season. Brown had the best statistical season of his career in leading the Celtics to 56 wins, but Boston lost Game 7 of its first-round series against the Philadelphia 76ers with Tatum out. That series exposed holes in Boston's roster that would be hard to address with both Tatum and Brown earning supermax salaries in this enormously restrictive CBA environment.
Brown responded by venting on Twitch after the Celtics were eliminated, claiming the NBA had an agenda against him. Perhaps just as notably, he called this season his "favorite year" of his basketball career rather than the 2024 title season. The Celtics, meanwhile, spent most of June negotiating a trade of Brown to the Milwaukee Bucks for Giannis Antetokounmpo. When Antetokounmpo was ultimately dealt to the Miami Heat, Boston elected to move on from Brown anyway and send him to Philadelphia in a shocker.
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Add The New York Post on GoogleA 24-year-old woman was found fatally shot in the neck inside her Brooklyn home late Tuesday in what appears to be a domestic incident, police and law enforcement sources said.
Tatiana Pettus was discovered with a mortal gunshot wound to the neck inside a bedroom when police responded to a 911 call around 11:25 p.m. at her apartment building on Foster Avenue near East 29th Street in Flatbush, according to cops and sources.
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About 2,000 U.S. troops supporting relief efforts after Venezuela earthquakes
PoliticsAbout 2,000 U.S. troops supporting relief efforts after Venezuela earthquakes
By Eleanor Watson CBS News Reporter Eleanor Watson is a CBS News multi-platform reporter and producer covering the Pentagon. Read Full Bio Eleanor WatsonUpdated on: July 1, 2026 / 5:54 PM EDT / CBS News
Add CBS News on GoogleAbout 2,000 U.S. service members are supporting relief efforts in Venezuela after last week's devastating earthquakes, according to the head of the U.S. military's Southern Command.
"The U.S. military, the Department of War, has roughly 2,000 teammates in the area on land, air and sea around Venezuela," Gen. Francis Donovan said in a briefing Wednesday. "They are working hard daily to help in the search and rescue efforts, to help in the recovery efforts to deliver needed supplies."
Donovan told reporters that the focus right now is looking for survivors — Wednesday marked the seventh day since the two earthquakes.
"In these situations, you have anywhere from 3 to 7 days that you have to respond to hopefully recover people that are still living and maybe injured in the rubble," Donovan said.
Venezuela's government on Wednesday said over 2,000 people have died as a result of the earthquakes, and over 10,000 were injured.
Shortly after the 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes, the U.S. military helped fly in about 310 specialists from urban search and rescue teams who are now on the ground, according to John Barrett, the chargé d'affaires for the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. He said they have rescued five survivors, including a mother and her toddler.
After the U.S. military conducted an overnight raid in January to capture Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration outlined a three-phase plan for Venezuela that consisted of stabilization, economic recovery and transition with free and fair elections.
"That reconstruction looks a little bit different, of course, since the devastating earthquake, but the economic recovery had already begun," Barrett said. "I'm focused right now on saving lives, but we will get back to Phase 2 and Venezuela's economic recovery."
Barrett said the U.S. has provided over $300 million in humanitarian assistance since the disaster.
U.S. Southern Command in a statement listed support from the military, including a coordination cell to transport humanitarian aid. Some of the teams on the ground include a specialized Army medical unit to provide surgical support and a U.S. Marine Combat Logistics Company that has a water purification system, a mobile potable water container, and a military-grade tow truck.
Barrett told reporters that removing the debris from collapsed buildings would be a "huge task."
"We will continue to work with the Venezuelan people to adjust these needs, including sanitation, water, energy generation, and we will continue along that path as long as it takes," Barrett said.
When asked about the scale of the U.S. military support, Gen. Donovan said each crisis is different but the current support is probably larger than what was provided after Hurricane Melissa last year in Jamaica but smaller than after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
"We are focused on saving lives right now, finding folks still in the rubble and setting conditions for logistics, you know, delivery of relief supplies, so right now it's what we call 'full speed ahead,'" Donovan said.
