The Tampa Bay Rays moved wrong 1 triumph of the World Series connected Sunday, defeating the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 successful Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. The triumph gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 vantage successful the best-of-seven bid and enactment the Rays successful presumption to clinch the American League pennant astatine home.
Drew Rasmussen delivered a ascendant performance, allowing 4 hits and 1 tally portion striking retired six implicit 7 innings. Tampa Bay established a 3-0 pb with a tally successful each of the archetypal 3 innings, and Cleveland struggled to make discourtesy against the right-hander. Steven Kwan scored the Guardians’ lone tally successful the sixth, but the Rays’ bullpen preserved the lead, with Bryan Baker signaling the save.
The Rays person won consecutive games successful Cleveland aft splitting the archetypal 4 contests, shifting the unit to the Guardians arsenic the bid moves backmost to Florida. Tampa Bay volition person its archetypal accidental to unafraid a World Series berth successful Game 6 connected Monday astatine Tropicana Field, with a imaginable Game 7 scheduled for Tuesday. The victor of the ALCS volition look the Milwaukee Brewers successful the World Series.
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