Tyler Freeman smacks four hits as the Guardians thrash the Twins.

With an 11-4 victory on Saturday, the Cleveland Guardians handed the visiting Minnesota Twins their fifth consecutive loss. Tyler Freeman led the team in scoring with four hits, three RBIs, and three runs. Jose Ramirez set the tone with a two-run home run off Minnesota starter Bailey Ober (4-2) in the first inning, capping a 12-pitch at-bat about twenty-four hours after his eighth-inning, game-winning home drive lifted Cleveland to a 3-2 victory in the series opener on Friday.

On Saturday, Ramirez ended with three hits and three runs scored. Freeman began his career with a leadoff single in the first inning. The Guardians, who have won five of their last six games overall and are 12-3 in their last 15 home games, continued to roll with Freeman’s two-run single during a four-run eighth. The Twins, who have lost their last five games by a combined score of 28–7, were further frustrated by Cleveland starter Logan Allen (5-2), who gave up five hits and a walk in six scoreless innings. Allen had seven strikeouts.

Minnesota didn’t score until the ninth on Saturday. But the Twins scored four runs in the eighth, led by a hit by Kyle Farmer with two RBIs. In four innings, Ober allowed five runs and eight hits to be hit by pitches. He fanned four and walked one. Thanks to Ramirez and Freeman, the Guardians kept Ober in check in their half of the inning after Minnesota failed to score with runners on first and second with no outs in the first.

After back-to-back singles by Freeman and Andres Gimenez (three hits, two RBIs), Ramirez blasted a double into the right field corner to score the first run of the inning. After that, Josh Naylor scored a sacrifice fly to make it 4-0. Cleveland led 5-0 after Freeman hit an RBI double high off the left field wall with two outs in the fourth inning. In the fifth inning, the Guardians added another run when Kyle Manzardo’s double brought David Fry home after he was hit by Kody Funderburk’s pitch, stole second, and scored on Will Brennan’s two-out single.

With three singles, Manuel Margot led Minnesota to a 0–4 loss over Cleveland in 2024.