Guardians on Tigers' heels after 10th win in row

MINNEAPOLIS -- Steven Kwan tied a play precocious with 4 RBIs and the Cleveland Guardians made it 10 consecutive wins by beating the Minnesota Twins 8-0 connected Saturday to expanse a day-night doubleheader without giving up a run.

Winners successful 15 of their past 16 games, the Guardians are 1 crippled backmost of first-place Detroit successful the AL Central aft trailing by 11 connected Sept. 4 and by 14 soon earlier the All-Star break.

The Tigers were beaten 6-5 by Atlanta connected Saturday afternoon. They've mislaid 5 consecutive and 8 of the past nine.

The Guardians started the nightcap 1 crippled down Boston and Houston successful the wild-card standings. They won the opener 6-0, hitting 5 location runs successful a crippled for the archetypal clip since April 10, 2021.

Limited to 1 deed done 4 innings, Cleveland sent 10 batters to the sheet successful the 5th inning.

A one-out azygous by Kwan scored Brayan Rocchio and Petey Halpin. With 2 outs, Kyle Manzardo and C.J. Kayfus had RBI singles astir a two-run treble by Gabriel Arias to the partition successful right-center field.

Kwan added a two-run azygous successful the eighth.

That was much than capable for Logan Allen (8-11), who earned his archetypal triumph since July 29 by scattering 4 hits and striking retired 7 successful a career-high 8 innings.

Guardians starters person allowed nary much than 2 earned runs successful 15 consecutive games since Sept. 5, the longest streak successful franchise history.

Bailey Ober (5-9) permitted six runs and 8 hits successful 5 innings for the Twins. After going 4-1 successful his archetypal 7 starts, helium is 1-8 successful 19 starts since May 8. He missed 26 games from June 29 to Aug. 2 with a near hep impingement.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.