CLEVELAND (AP) — José Ramírez hit his seventh homer, Logan Allen allowed three hits in six innings, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-0. The Guardians have shut out the Brewers on back-to-back nights. Kyle Manzardo drove in the Guardians’ other run with his second triple this season, a short flyball that got past a diving Jackson Chourio in center field to score Ramírez in the eighth inning. Allen walked one and struck out six. Matt Festa, Hunter Gaddis and Emmanuel Clase completed the shutout. Clase got his ninth save.
Series finale this afternoon. Pregame at 11:35am. First pitch at 12:10pm on AM1240 & 96.5FM.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The opener of a three-game series between the Minnesota Twins and Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday was postponed because of rain. The game will be made up as a traditional doubleheader on Wednesday. Minnesota right-hander Bailey Ober will face Baltimore right-hander Dean Kremer in the opener of the doubleheader. Twins right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson is expected to start the second game. The Orioles haven’t announced a starter for that one. The Twins have won eight straight after beating the San Francisco Giants 7-6 on Sunday.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton scored 31 points, Pascal Siakam added 21 and the Indiana Pacers advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals with a 114-105 victory over Cleveland, eliminating the top-seeded Cavaliers in five games. Donovan Mitchell, who missed the second half of Sunday’s game due to a sprained left ankle, led Cleveland with 35 points. Evan Mobley added 24 points and 11 rebounds. The fourth-seeded Pacers will now await the winner of the matchup between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. New York has a 3-1 advantage in the series with Game 5 on Thursday night in Boston.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied from a double-digit deficit in the second half to beat the Denver Nuggets 112-105 and go up 3-2 in their Western Conference semifinal series. Oklahoma City overcame a 44-point, 15-rebound night from Denver’s Nikola Jokic. The Thunder can clinch the series on Thursday in Denver. Gilgeous-Alexander made 12 of 23 field goals and had seven assists. He led six Thunder players in double figures. Jokic made 17 of 25 field goals. Denver’s Jamal Murray scored 28 points, but he made just 10 of 27 shots.
DALLAS (AP) — Another playoff hat trick for a Finnish forward the Dallas Stars acquired in a trade during the regular season. This time, it was a first for Mikael Granlund. Not yet another three-goal game for Mikko Rantanaen. Granlund’s first career postseason hat trick accounted all of the goals for the Dallas Stars in their 3-1 win Tuesday night that put them up 3-1 in their second-round Western Conference series against the top-seeded Winnipeg Jets. Granlund scored in each period. The 33-year-old in his 13th NHL season and with his fifth team, had scored multiple goals only one time in his previous 69 playoff games. The Stars got Granlund from San Jose on Feb. 1. Rantanen was a deadline acquisition March 7 from Carolina.
NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport’s Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by gambling scandals. Rose’s permanent ban was lifted eight months after his death and comes a day before the Cincinnati Reds will honor baseball’s career hits leader with Pete Rose Night. Manfred announced Tuesday that he was changing the league’s policy on permanent ineligibility, saying bans would expire after death. Under the Hall of Fame’s current rules, it appears the earliest Rose or Jackson could be inducted would be in 2028.