Cleveland Guardians Outfielders Make Baseball History in ALDS Game 5 Win

On Saturday, the Cleveland Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers 7-3 in Recreation 5 of the American League Division Sequence. The Guardians gained the collection 3-2 and can advance to tackle the New York Yankees within the American League Championship Sequence. That may start Monday evening.

Within the Saturday win, Guardians star Steven Kwan went 3-for-5 whereas Lane Thomas went 2-for-4 with a grand slam and 5 RBI.

Each gamers ended up making distinctive historical past, in line with Sarah Langs of MLB.com.

First, on the subject of Kwan:

most hits in best-of-5 postseason collection:

2001 ALDS Ichiro Suzuki: 12
1995 ALDS Edgar Martínez: 12
2024 ALDS Steven Kwan: 11
1995 ALDS Jay Buhner: 11
1995 NLDS Marquis Grissom: 11
1982 ALCS Fred Lynn: 11
1976 ALCS Chris Chambliss: 11

Top-of-the-line pure hitters in baseball, Kwan hit .524 within the ALDS. This adopted up an everyday season by which he hit .292 with 14 homers, 44 RBI and 12 stolen bases. He additionally posted a .793 OPS, though he solely obtained 480 at-bats after battling harm.

As for Thomas, the Guardians acquired him on the commerce deadline in a take care of the Washington Nationals. For the season as an entire, he hit .237 with 15 homers, 63 RBI and 32 stolen bases.

Additionally per Langs:

Lane Thomas’ 5 RBI are probably the most in a postseason sport when dealing with elimination by a Cleveland participant since RBI official (1920)

Thomas is 29 years outdated. The Guardians and Yankees will open up the ALCS at 7:38 p.m. ET on Monday. Neither crew has introduced a starter as of this posting.

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