David Fry, Guardians walk-off Yankees in ALCS Game 3 as closers past and present implode

CLEVELAND — After a fewer closers imploded successful Game 3 of the ALCS, a erstwhile person did the aforesaid connected Thursday erstwhile David Fry smoked a two-run, walk-off homer disconnected Clay Holmes successful the 10th inning of Game 3 of the ALCS.

The heroic effort resulted successful a 7-5 triumph for the Guardians and came soon aft Jhonkensy Noel demolished a Luke Weaver changeup to necktie the crippled successful the ninth inning. The two-run weaponry was the 2nd location tally Weaver allowed successful arsenic galore games.

Earlier, Emmanuel Clase tried for a four-out prevention successful his archetypal quality of the ALCS with the Guardians successful possession of a 3-1 lead. The Bombers had mustered conscionable 1 tally against lefty starter Matthew Boyd and a fewer of Cleveland’s high-leverage relievers, and Clase had allowed conscionable 5 earned runs each play portion redeeming 47 games.

Those numbers didn’t substance to Aaron Judge successful the eighth. With Juan Soto moving a locomotion against Hunter Gaddis, Judge lined a 1-2 cutter disconnected Clase for a two-run homer.

As the game-tying thrust hardly cleared Progressive Field’s close tract wall, Judge hooted and pumped his arms. Meanwhile, the Yankees’ dugout spilled onto the tract to observe Judge’s 2nd location tally successful arsenic galore postseason games pursuing a agelong October powerfulness outage.

ALLLLLLLLLL RISE!

AARON JUDGE GAME-TYING HOME RUN 🤯 pic.twitter.com/P2tQxBItoi

— MLB (@MLB) October 17, 2024

The Yankees’ seat did the aforesaid 1 batter later, arsenic Giancarlo Stanton belted a go-ahead blast of his ain disconnected Clase’s signature cutter, his 3rd of this postseason. The reliever surrendered conscionable 2 homers during the regular season, but the Yankees celebrated matching that fig a spot prematurely arsenic Cleveland slugged its mode back.

The Yankees, present up 2-1 successful the series, added a tally successful the ninth connected a Gleyber Torres sac fly. That followed a bizarre baserunning play that saw Anthony Volpe get into a rundown earlier crashing into José Ramírez connected his mode to third. Ramírez dropped the shot arsenic the 2 collided, giving the Yankees 2 runners successful scoring presumption with cipher out.

The Yanks besides had assistance from Jose Trevino, who picked up an RBI azygous successful the 2nd inning. However, the not-so-fleet of ft catcher, playing for the archetypal clip since the Bombers’ regular play finale, was past picked disconnected by Boyd.

Cleveland rode Boyd’s near limb for the archetypal 5 innings. While helium walked 3 batters, helium lone permitted 2 hits portion striking retired 4 implicit 75 pitches.

Meanwhile, Yankees’ starter Clarke Schmidt made a costly mistake successful the 3rd inning erstwhile Kyle Manzardo crushed a two-run homer 395 feet to right. Schmidt missed his spot connected the pitch, leaving a sinker implicit the bosom of the sheet with Trevino mounting up outside.

Schmidt didn’t let immoderate different runs implicit 4.2 innings, but the Yankees recovered themselves successful a pugnacious spot successful the sixth erstwhile Ian Hamilton exited with near calf tightness aft covering archetypal basal connected a groundball.

Tim Mayza past entered the game, resulting successful an Andrés Giménez RBI azygous aft Lane Thomas stole third.

Now looking for a bounce-back, the Yankees volition crook to Luis Gil successful Game 4 connected Friday. The Rookie of the Year contender has not pitched successful an authoritative crippled since his past commencement of the regular play connected Sept. 28.

Gil did propulsion astir 70 pitches implicit 4 innings successful a simulated crippled astatine Yankee Stadium connected Oct. 13. He faced a premix of large league and insignificant league hitters that day, and he’s besides thrown a bullpen since.

Gavin Williams volition instrumentality the shot for the Guardians. Like Gil, the righty did not transportation successful the ALDS.