One inning decided the night — and kept a season alive. Down to their final days, the Cleveland Guardians scored six runs in the sixth inning on Thursday to beat the Chicago White Sox 9-5 and force a winner-take-all Game 5 in the American League Division Series.
Video credit: MLB (official Major League Baseball channel on YouTube).
The full-game highlights from the league’s official channel capture a contest that swung twice before it settled. Chicago struck first and later retook the lead 4-3 in the fifth, only for Cleveland to answer with pinch-hit homers from Patrick Bailey and José Ramírez and a ten-batter sixth inning capped by Jo Adell’s two-run single. Ramírez finished with three runs batted in, and Cleveland’s bullpen slammed the door after a brief ninth-inning scare.
The comeback carries genuine historical weight. Teams leading a best-of-five series two games to none have won 83 of 93 times, and Cleveland is attempting the first 0-2 escape since 2017 — when the Yankees did it to Cleveland. Game 5 is Saturday night at Progressive Field. Watch how Thursday’s rally unfolded above.
Chicago had its chances. The White Sox put the tying pressure on late, including a ninth-inning home run that briefly revived the home crowd, but Cleveland’s relievers — four of them combining for more than three scoreless innings — held the line. Game 4 will be remembered as the night the Guardians stopped playing like underdogs in their own division series and started playing like a team that expects to be playing next week.
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