Guardians advance via Gonzalez walk-off
The Cleveland Guardians are headed to the American League Division Series after Oscar Gonzalez hit a walk-off homer.
It took 15 innings, five hours of baseball, and a ton of strikeouts, but the Cleveland Guardians defeated the Tampa Bay Rays by a score of 1-0. Oscar Gonzalez came up in the bottom half of the inning, SpongeBob theme and all, and proceeded deposit the second pitch of his at-bat into the left field bleachers.
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Gonzalez did not seem fazed by facing former Cleveland pitcher Corey Kluber and looked very comfortable in the final at-bat of the game. There are many rookies that would not be able to come through in that situation, but Gonzalez is clearly not one of those rookies. The...