Ramírez's 10th-Inning Double Sinks Angels as Cleveland Rallies for 8-6 Win
Jose Ramírez went 3-for-6 with 5 RBI, including the decisive two-run double in the 10th inning that sent Cleveland past Los Angeles 8-6. Steven Kwan was a perfect 5-for-5 with 3 runs scored, and the story of the night was Cleveland clawing back from a five-run deficit to steal a road win.
Los Angeles looked like it had this one locked up early. Vaughn Grissom opened the scoring in the first with a 389-foot two-run homer to left, Trout scoring ahead of him, and the Angels kept piling on in the second — Christian Moore added a solo shot to left center at 389 feet, then Guzman doubled to score Siri, and Neto singled home Guzman to make it 5-0. That's a five-run cushion through two innings, and LAA's Tayler Saucedo had been sharp through his two innings of work — no hits, no earned runs, four strikeouts. Cleveland's Logan Allen, meanwhile, had already allowed that first-inning damage.
Then the Angels' bullpen handed the game back. Walbert Urena came on and issued 5 walks over 3.2 innings while surrendering 3 earned runs, and Cleveland's lineup smelled blood. Travis Bazzana doubled home a run in the fourth, then Ramírez doubled to center to score Bazzana and Kwan, cutting it to 5-3. The fifth inning was where the comeback fully materialized: Rocchio singled home Martínez, Kwan singled home Halpin to tie it at 5, and just when it looked like Cleveland had seized control, Grissom answered with his second homer of the night — a 385-foot shot to left — to put LAA back ahead 6-5. That's the kind of counterpunch that looks like it could deflate a comeback entirely. Ramírez tied it again in the eighth with a double to left, scoring Kwan, and the game headed to extras knotted at 6.
The decisive moment came in the 10th. With Kwan and Rocchio on base, Ramírez doubled to center, scoring both — swinging LAA's win probability from 45% to 13%, a 32-point collapse on a single swing. That's the ballgame. Ramírez's 5 RBI on three hits is the kind of performance that carries a team through a game it had no business winning after two innings. Kwan's perfect 5-for-5 night, crossing the plate three times, appears to have been equally essential — he was on base every single time Cleveland needed him to be. Erik Sabrowski's clean 10th inning, three strikeouts on zero hits, closed it out. Cleveland takes it 8-6.