The Cleveland Guardians defeated the Boston Red Sox 3-2 on Tuesday night, with Nathaniel Lowe providing the decisive blow. Per ESPN, Lowe hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly off reliever Erik Miller in the ninth inning to lift Cleveland to victory and help the Guardians maintain their slim first-place lead in the AL Central.
Sportsnet reported that Angel Martinez went 3-for-4 and David Fry added an RBI single for Cleveland. Parker Messick struck out five batters across five innings of work. One outlet noted that Mickey Gasper tied the game for Boston at some point during the contest, though the exact inning was not specified in available reports.
Over The Monster's Matt Gross framed the loss as symptomatic of deeper concerns. While acknowledging that the Red Sox are already locked into the postseason and cannot improve their standing, Gross wrote that the manner of the defeat troubled him, pointing to several issues within the game itself that he did not elaborate on in his summary. ESPN did not provide similar commentary on Boston's performance beyond the final result.