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Guardians learn the hard way that all three outs are important

The Rays scored six runs in their win over the Guardians today. Every one of them came with two outs, and all but one — the final dagger in the bottom of the eighth — was an extra-base hit. That ended up being the difference as Cleveland’s comeback attempt failed and they lost, 6-4.

Honestly, the game could have been a lot worse. Corey Kluber came out absolutely on fire, and with some of the wildest horizontal movement you’ll ever see from a starting pitcher. His curveball, as Baseball Savant categorizes it, was moving like a slider out there, and caught more than one batter looking as it started well in the right-handed batter’s box and moved back in to back-door helpless lefties.