Cleveland wins in extras over Royals 5-3
The Cleveland Baseball Club came away with a 5-3 extra-innings win on the road against the Kansas City Royals.
It doesn’t matter that it took extra-innings, but Wednesday’s 5-3 win over the Kansas City Royals can still be marked as a win for the Cleveland Baseball Club.
After finding themselves trailing 3-0 after 4 innings, Cleveland got to work offensively. It took an error for Cleveland to score their first runs of the game. Bradley Zimmer and Harold Ramirez came across to score while Michael A. Taylor committed a fielding error in the outfield.
Yu Chang came up in the 7th and delivered with a solo home run, his seventh of the season.
Yu Chang ties this game up at 3-3!#OurCLE pic.twitter.com/TZlCPoEAnE
— Bally Sports Cleveland (@BallySportsCLE) September 2, 2021
The game would stay tied until extras and that is when Cleveland managed to take the lead for the first time in the game. Austin Hedges would drive in Daniel Johnson in the 11th, giving Cleveland a 4-3 lead. Chang would follow with a double that allowed Bobby Bradley to score the fifth run of the game. Trevor Stephan would come on in the bottom of the inning to come away with his first save of the season. Stephan struck out two of the three batters he faced to close the game.
