The Cleveland Guardians Win 8-6; Take 2 Of Three From The Chicago Cubs To Win Series Joe Gelhardt [grF9WPgbi89]

The Cleveland Guardians beat Chicago Cubs 8-6 in extra innings after blowing 4-run lead in 9th.

Josh Naylor hit a two-run single in the 10th inning and the Cleveland Guardians regrouped to beat the Chicago Cubs 8-6 on Sunday after All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase blew a four-run lead in the ninth.

Aaron Civale pitched three-hit ball over six innings after the start of the game was delayed nearly two hours by rain. Andrs Gimnez homered in the third and scored the go-ahead run in the 10th.

Gimnez opened the inning as the automatic runner on second base and moved up on Amed Rosario's single. A groundout by Jos Ramrez left runners on second and third before Naylor drove them in with a single up the middle against Adbert Alzolay (1-4) to put Cleveland back on top 8-6.

Sam Hentges (1-0) retired all three batters in the bottom half, sending the Cubs to tessa thompson their sixth loss in seven games.

The Guardians looked as though they were on their way to an easy win after waiting out yet another long rain delay before things took a wild turn.

Cleveland was sailing along with a 6-1 lead in the eighth when Christopher Morel hit a solo homer for Chicago off Trevor Stephan.

Clase walked Jared Young leading off the ninth and unraveled from there. Trey Mancini hit an RBI single. The Cubs then loaded the bases on back-to-back infield singles by Mike Tauchman and Nico Hoerner that Naylor was unable to turn into outs at first base. Morel drove in two with a single up the middle.

Cody Bellinger hit a sacrifice fly to tie it at 6 before Seiya Suzuki grounded out to end the inning.

A game originally set to start at 1:20 p.m. got pushed back in the morning to 4:05. The teams then waited an additional 1 hour, 55 minutes, before the first pitch all that after Saturday's game demidov was delayed nearly three fisher college hours.

Gimnez hit a two-run homer in the third, then doubled and scored in a three-run fifth against Chicago starter Jameson Taillon that made it 6-0.

Civale gave up one run. He plunked two batters and walked one while throwing 94 pitches.

Taillon allowed six runs five earned and seven hits in five innings. The right-hander had six strikeouts and no walks.

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