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Cleveland Guardians 0 – 2 Cincinnati Reds

MLB · July 28, 2026 · Final
🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Cincinnati Reds shut out the Cleveland Guardians two to nothing Monday night, and this one belonged to Cincinnati almost from the first pitch. JD Bleday set the tone early, stepping up in the first inning and launching a solo shot three hundred eighty-one feet to right field — that was all the Reds needed to get rolling. Cleveland's offense never answered, and the Guardians' pitching unraveled in the fifth when Williams uncorked a wild pitch that let Myers score and pushed Isaiah Johnson to third, extending the lead to two. That was the ballgame right there — the Guardians couldn't manufacture a single run despite getting Jose Ramirez and Steven Kwan into the lineup, both of whom went a combined zero for seven on the night. Ramirez went zero for four, Kwan zero for three, and Cleveland as a whole looked flat at the plate from the jump. For Cincinnati, Bleday was the story — one for three, one home run, one RBI, and the only run that really mattered came off his bat. The Reds didn't need fireworks, just execution, and they got exactly that. Cincinnati wins a quiet, clean two-nothing ballgame, and Cleveland leaves without a single run to show for it. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

  1. Bleday homered to right (381 feet). P1 · 0–1
  2. Myers scored on Williams wild pitch, I. Johnson to third on wild pitch by Williams. P5 · 0–2
  3. Myers scored on Williams wild pitch, I. Johnson to third on wild pitch by Williams. P5 · 0–2

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1
Caleb Ferguson pitches to Steven Kwan P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Kwan grounded out to second. P1
P1
Caleb Ferguson pitches to Jose Ramirez P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Ramírez grounded out to shortstop. P1
P1
Caleb Ferguson pitches to Chase DeLauter P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1
DeLauter popped out to catcher. P1
P1
Middle of the 1st inning P1
Bottom of the 1st inning P1
Gavin Williams pitches to Elly De La Cruz P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
De La Cruz struck out swinging. P1
P1
Gavin Williams pitches to Sal Stewart P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Stewart struck out swinging. P1
P1
Gavin Williams pitches to JJ Bleday P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1
Bleday homered to right (381 feet). P1
P1
Gavin Williams pitches to Nathaniel Lowe P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Lowe flied out to left. P1
P1
End of the 1st inning P1
Top of the 2nd inning P2
Caleb Ferguson pitches to Rhys Hoskins P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 6 : Automatic Ball - Pitch Timer Violation 3 P2
Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 8 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 9 : Ball 4 P2
Hoskins walked. P2
P2
Caleb Ferguson pitches to Brayan Rocchio P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2
Rocchio flied out to right. P2
P2
Caleb Ferguson pitches to Travis Bazzana P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Bazzana singled to right, Hoskins to third. P2
P2
Caleb Ferguson pitches to Gabriel Arias P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Arias struck out swinging. P2
P2
Garcia relieved Ferguson P2
Julian Garcia pitches to Austin Hedges P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P2
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2
Hedges grounded out to second. P2
P2
Middle of the 2nd inning P2
Bottom of the 2nd inning P2
Gavin Williams pitches to Dane Myers P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2
Myers singled to left. P2
P2
Gavin Williams pitches to Noelvi Marte P2
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2
Marte grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Myers out at second. P2
P2
Gavin Williams pitches to Ivan Johnson P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
I. Johnson struck out swinging. P2
P2
End of the 2nd inning P2
Top of the 3rd inning P3
Julian Garcia pitches to Petey Halpin P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3
Halpin hit by pitch. P3
P3
Julian Garcia pitches to Steven Kwan P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P3
Kwan walked, Halpin to second. P3
P3
Julian Garcia pitches to Jose Ramirez P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3
Ramírez lined out to right. P3
P3
Julian Garcia pitches to Chase DeLauter P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3
DeLauter popped out to shortstop. P3
P3
Julian Garcia pitches to Rhys Hoskins P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3
Hoskins flied out to left. P3
P3
Middle of the 3rd inning P3
Bottom of the 3rd inning P3
Gavin Williams pitches to Jose Trevino P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Trevino flied out to left. P3
P3
Gavin Williams pitches to Ke'Bryan Hayes P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
Hayes struck out swinging. P3
P3
Gavin Williams pitches to Elly De La Cruz P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P3
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
De La Cruz struck out swinging. P3
P3
End of the 3rd inning P3
Top of the 4th inning P4
Franco relieved Garcia P4
Jose Franco pitches to Brayan Rocchio P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 4 P4
Rocchio walked. P4
P4
Jose Franco pitches to Travis Bazzana P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Bazzana struck out swinging. P4
P4
Jose Franco pitches to Gabriel Arias P4
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4
Arias grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Rocchio out at second. P4
P4
Jose Franco pitches to Austin Hedges P4
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4
Hedges singled to left, Arias to second. P4
P4
Jose Franco pitches to Petey Halpin P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4
Halpin flied out to center. P4
P4
Middle of the 4th inning P4
Bottom of the 4th inning P4
Gavin Williams pitches to Sal Stewart P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Stewart struck out swinging. P4
P4
Gavin Williams pitches to JJ Bleday P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Bleday struck out swinging. P4
P4
Gavin Williams pitches to Nathaniel Lowe P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 7 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Lowe struck out swinging. P4
P4
End of the 4th inning P4
Top of the 5th inning P5
Jose Franco pitches to Steven Kwan P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P5
Kwan struck out looking. Cincinnati Reds challenged: call on the field was overturned. P5
P5
Jose Franco pitches to Jose Ramirez P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5
Ramírez lined out to shortstop. P5
P5
Jose Franco pitches to Chase DeLauter P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5
DeLauter grounded out to first. P5
P5
Middle of the 5th inning P5
Bottom of the 5th inning P5
Gavin Williams pitches to Dane Myers P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P5
Myers walked. P5
P5
Gavin Williams pitches to Noelvi Marte P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P5
Myers stole second. P5
Myers stole second. P5
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Marte struck out swinging. P5
P5
Gavin Williams pitches to Ivan Johnson P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5
I. Johnson singled to left. P5
P5
Gavin Williams pitches to Jose Trevino P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5
Trevino grounded out to pitcher, I. Johnson to second, Myers to third. P5
P5
Gavin Williams pitches to Ke'Bryan Hayes P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5
Myers scored on Williams wild pitch, I. Johnson to third on wild pitch by Williams. P5
Myers scored on Williams wild pitch, I. Johnson to third on wild pitch by Williams. P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Hayes struck out swinging. P5
P5
End of the 5th inning P5
Top of the 6th inning P6
Manzardo hit for Hoskins P6
Jose Franco pitches to Kyle Manzardo P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Manzardo grounded out to second. P6
P6
Jose Franco pitches to Brayan Rocchio P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6
Rocchio grounded out to shortstop. P6
P6
Jose Franco pitches to Travis Bazzana P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
Bazzana flied out to left. P6
P6
Middle of the 6th inning P6
Bottom of the 6th inning P6
Manzardo at first base. P6
Gavin Williams pitches to Elly De La Cruz P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
De La Cruz lined out to center. P6
P6
Gavin Williams pitches to Sal Stewart P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Stewart struck out swinging. P6
P6
Gavin Williams pitches to JJ Bleday P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Bleday flied out to center. P6
P6
End of the 6th inning P6
Top of the 7th inning P7
Jose Franco pitches to Gabriel Arias P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7
Arias flied out to right. P7
P7
Jose Franco pitches to Austin Hedges P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Hedges fouled out to first. P7
P7
Antone relieved Franco P7
Tejay Antone pitches to Petey Halpin P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P7
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P7
Halpin walked. P7
P7
Tejay Antone pitches to Steven Kwan P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P7
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7
Kwan flied out to left. P7
P7
Middle of the 7th inning P7
Bottom of the 7th inning P7
Gavin Williams pitches to Nathaniel Lowe P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Lowe grounded out to second. P7
P7
Gavin Williams pitches to Dane Myers P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7
Myers struck out swinging. P7
P7
Gavin Williams pitches to Noelvi Marte P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7
Marte lined out to right. P7
P7
End of the 7th inning P7
Top of the 8th inning P8
Tejay Antone pitches to Jose Ramirez P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Ramírez struck out swinging. P8
P8
Tejay Antone pitches to Chase DeLauter P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
DeLauter struck out swinging. P8
P8
Tejay Antone pitches to Kyle Manzardo P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Manzardo hit by pitch. P8
P8
Tejay Antone pitches to Brayan Rocchio P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Rocchio flied out to center. P8
P8
Middle of the 8th inning P8
Bottom of the 8th inning P8
Espino relieved Williams P8
Daniel Espino pitches to Ivan Johnson P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P8
I. Johnson walked. P8
P8
Daniel Espino pitches to Jose Trevino P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P8
I. Johnson stole second. P8
I. Johnson stole second. P8
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Trevino struck out swinging. P8
P8
Daniel Espino pitches to Ke'Bryan Hayes P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P8
Hayes struck out looking. P8
P8
Daniel Espino pitches to Elly De La Cruz P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
I. Johnson stole third. P8
I. Johnson stole third. P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
De La Cruz struck out swinging. P8
P8
End of the 8th inning P8
Top of the 9th inning P9
Pagán relieved Antone P9
Emilio Pagan pitches to Travis Bazzana P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Bazzana struck out swinging. P9
P9
Emilio Pagan pitches to Gabriel Arias P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9
Arias singled to left. P9
P9
Bailey hit for Hedges P9
Emilio Pagan pitches to Patrick Bailey P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Bailey struck out swinging. P9
P9
Emilio Pagan pitches to Petey Halpin P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9
Arias to second on fielder's indifference. P9
Arias to second on fielder's indifference. P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P9
Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P9
Halpin flied out to center. P9
P9