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Indians clinch playoff berth on José Ramírez’s walkoff homer in 10th

The Cleveland Indians will be playing baseball in October and they have José Ramírez to thank for it. Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the tenth inning with two outs and runners on first and second, Ramírez crushed a home run pitch from José Ruiz and deposited it into the right field stands to rally past the Chicago White Sox and clinch a postseason berth.

The Tribe seemed doom to an extra-innings loss when Phil Maton broke the 1-1 tie in the tenth inning by surrendering a run-scoring triple to Adam Engel and then allowing the White Sox to tack on an insurance run with an RBI single from Nick Madrigal.